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<p>Curiouser and curiouser. Ey’d always pictured A Finger Pointing’s stanza as one of the more liberal ones, and had early on noticed that the liberal Odists had largely distanced themselves from the more conservative ones. To have two of them specifically drop by to visit True Name was quite unnerving.</p>
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<p>The most curious thing, though, had to be May.</p>
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<p>It wasn’t just that all the work she’d put into her feelings about her cocladist had seemingly paid off — other than a few tense moments, mostly silent, she was at worst quiet and at best willing to hold conversations with True Name about a limited set of topics — but that even in those tensest moments, she seemed to at least want to do something. Whether it was out of an earnest desire to improve the skunk’s life or to simply get this situation over with seemed to vary depending on her mood.</p>
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<p>It was her discussion with End Waking that really knocked em off-kilter, though.</p>
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<p>“Are you sure that’s even a good idea?” ey asked when she explained the idea. “I mean, won’t that just make her feel worse if she also has to deal with all of that regret?”</p>
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<p>It was her discussions with End Waking that really knocked em off-kilter, though. Her visits to her cocladist’s forest sim came at least once a day, and it wasn’t until the fourth that she was willing to share anything about their conversations.</p>
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<p>“Wait, what? End Waking wants to merge down? I can’t even imagine that.”</p>
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<p>“That is what we have been talking about, yes. I shared…I mean, I told him what she told me, and it has changed things.”</p>
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<p>“Are you sure that’s even a good idea?” ey asked when she explained her idea. “I mean, won’t that just make her feel worse if she also has to deal with all of that regret?”</p>
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<p>May fiddled with the corner of the top sheet. They’d sat up in bed, the topic not feeling quite right for pillow-talk. “Possibly, yes. I do not think that it would be permanently detrimental. If she has a fuller view of the world, perhaps she will be better able to engage with it with empathy.”</p>
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<p>Ey bridled. “I don’t think you’re giving her enough credit on the empathy front.”</p>
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<p>Ey held eir gaze steady, frowning. “I don’t think you’re giving her enough credit on the empathy front.”</p>
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<p>She clutched the sheet tightly in her fists, visibly counting to ten. “Yes. You are right, Ioan. I am primed to see less in her than you, I think.</p>
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<p>“I know, May, I’m sorry,” ey said, shaking eir head. “I know it’s complicated.”</p>
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<p>Smiling gratefully, she nodded. “Thank you, my dear. Let me rephrase and say that having that additional perspective will give her new tools to engage with the world.”</p>
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<p>“Right, I can see that. I’m pretty sure I agree, too, so long as it’s consensual between the two of them. I just worry that now’s not a good time for it. If she’s distracted processing all that when she’s supposed to be thinking about what to do about Jonas, won’t that put her at a disadvantage?”</p>
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<p>“Right, that I can see. Given what all has been going on, I’m pretty sure I agree, too, so long as it’s consensual between the two of them. I just worry that now’s not a good time for it. If she’s distracted processing all that when she’s supposed to be thinking about what to do about Jonas, won’t that put her at a disadvantage?”</p>
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<p>“I suppose,” she mumbled, then smiled lopsidedly to em. “But we have time, yes? Jonas said within the year, and I imagine it will take us at least a month to convince End Waking to join as requested.”</p>
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<p>Ey sighed. “I don’t know if that’s necessarily reason to do it so soon, though. You’re right that we should take our time with the meeting and plan as best we can. I just worry about her going in there already a mess because of a ton of conflicts when she needs to be in the best shape she can be.”</p>
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<p>“You are right, as always,” she grumbled, slumping forward to use eir thigh as a pillow. “Thank you for keeping me grounded.”</p>
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<p>Ioan backed slowly out of the room, sliding the door shut quietly behind em. May sounded on the verge of tears once more, but, of all the things ey was not supposed to fix, perhaps least able to fix, this certainly felt like the top of the list.</p>
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