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<p>Conspicuously missing was any mention of a CPV attack, any mention that everyone — all 2.3 trillion of us — had crashed, or that messages were being gated and censored. Sedge explained that the last had included some gentle untruths. Rather than this being a political effort, this had been phrased as “slowly bringing Lagrange up to full capacity”. It wasn’t wrong, <em>per se,</em> they really were working on bringing the feeds up to full capacity; it’s just that the problem was political rather than technical.</p>
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<p>Dry Grass, in our own conversations, explained that there were already rumors flying about, and that these were being subtly steered by Odists, Jonases, Selena, and, to a lesser extent, what she called ‘the opposition party’, a group of clades led by Debarre who had settled into an uneasy truce with the other group. Rumors were being nudged away from “an attack by the Artemisians” and towards “solar flares or a power failure”.</p>
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<p>Rush, meanwhile, had latched onto Serene and talked her into letting ver follow along as she took a tally of all of her sims and those of her friends, seeing what remained and what had been marked as abandoned. While ve had always been one for exploring, seeing ver lock onto an interest this hard was new. Ve admitted quite quickly that it was something of a coping mechanism, something to do that wasn’t fret about what had happened to our world.</p>
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<p>The longest conversation I had that night was with Lily. I had initially been surprised by how chatty she was, but the surprise mellowed as she went on.</p>
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<p><em>“I just want to make sure that all of my grouchiness isn’t getting in the way of me keeping up to date,”</em> she said. <em>“Dry Grass has…well, it’s actually been really cool, all that she’s doing, so I definitely respect her”</em></p>
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<p><em>“You just don’t want to be around her?”</em> I asked.</p>
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<p>There was a shrug, felt rather than seen. <em>“I guess not. It’s just hard for me to let go of, even if I’m committed to at least trying to do so.”</em> She laughed. <em>“But yeah, I don’t want me hiding away to mean I’m not kept in the loop.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“Well, Sedge–”</em></p>
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<p><em>“I don’t mean the logistics, Reed.”</em> I could hear the smirk in her words. <em>“Or not</em> just <em>the logistics — Sedge has been keeping me up to date, yeah — but just keeping up with the rest of you. Cress and Tule are glued to her side, which, fair enough. Sedge has found her in with the rest of the politicians through her. You’ve been hanging out with her. Rush is off gallivanting with some other Odist…”</em></p>
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<p>I sighed, steeled myself. <em>“Well, yeah, fair enough. I’ve been spending time with her because I got pulled into being a bit of an organizer for everyone else, and because I kept Tule’s merge.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“You did? God, now</em> you’re <em>going to wind up glued to her side, too,”</em> she replied after a moment of parsing out the ramifications. She laughed, though I couldn’t judge just how earnest it was. <em>“But hey, it is what it is, right? This is why I want to keep up with you all. I’m out here trying to check in on friends, too, I don’t want to wind up losing sight of the clade.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“Yeah, I get that. I really appreciate it, too.”</em></p>
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