Lily shrugged awkwardly. “I don’t know yet. I’m still dealing with the stress of everything. That’s a big part of why I wanted to come here in the first place. I was feeling left out and lonely.”
We all nodded, and I reached out to pat the back of her hand.
She smiled gratefully at me before continuing. “Actually, I was starting to get paranoid that maybe this wasn’t over. I guess there’s no guarantee that it is. Who knows, maybe more people will start disappearing? I was getting worried that more of the clade would go missing, or that I’d just disappear without a trace, too.”
-Sniffling, Cress nodded. “I’ve been worried about the same. All of my friends, Dry Grass, all of you…I don’t know, I was worried that maybe there was some ongoing problem with the System or that whatever this fighting sys-side was hinting at wasn’t done.”
+Sniffling, Cress nodded. “I’ve been worried about the same. All of my friends, Dry Grass, all of you…I don’t know, I was worried that maybe there was some ongoing problem with the System or that whatever this fighting phys-side was hinting at wasn’t done.”
“That’s a big part of what I was thinking about,” Tule said. “That this was some sort of war or something. I’ve never lived through a war.”
“Few have,” Dry Grass said. “We almost did, back before the founding of the System, but the whole lost saga interrupted that.”
Jess, who had been fairly quiet up until that point, asked, “‘Lost saga’? Like, all that stuff about people being disappeared? Didn’t they all die?”
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@“Three hundred fourteen years,” Hold My Name said.
“Fifteen,” Dry Grass corrected. “The date jumped, remember?”
Her cocladist frowned, but nodded all the same.
-“Either way, I do not believe there shall be any more major losses. Sys-side seemed fairly confident of that. They have even promised that they will be ungating news and AVEC transmission back to Earth. We shall learn more before long.”
+“Either way, I do not believe there shall be any more major losses. Phys-side seemed fairly confident of that. They have even promised that they will be ungating news and AVEC transmission back to Earth. We shall learn more before long.”
“I hope so,” I said. “I’m getting pretty tired of being in the dark.”