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                 <h1 id="ioan-balan-2325">Ioan Bălan &mdash; 2325</h1>
 <p>Ioan&rsquo;s next interview subject was waiting for em at the agreed-upon library in the agreed-upon sim.</p>
 <p>The location was grand, as though it had been tailored perfectly to eir tastes: a cube sixty meters on a side, lit brightly by lights so that within shone a smaller cube made entirely of shelves. Shelves containing book after book after book. Spiral staircases wound up each corner, disgorging patrons onto the various levels so that they could meander along balconies and dive into corridors of books. Books, magazines, pamphlets. Scrolls, parchments, leaflets, snippets, chicken-scratch in diaries, words upon words upon words.</p>
-<p>And there, on the bottom floor beneath all of the books, a cafe and bar, serving everything from tea and coffee to beer, whiskey, and doubtless some fancy-as-hell cocktails.</p>
+<p>And there, on the bottom floor beneath all of the books, a cafe and bar, serving everything from tea and coffee to beer, whiskey, and doubtless some ridiculously fancy cocktails.</p>
 <p>&ldquo;Mx. Ioan Bălan?&rdquo; The young woman was waiting for em just inside the door to the cube.</p>
 <p>Ey held out a hand. &ldquo;Yes. You must be Sadiah?&rdquo;</p>
 <p>She beamed and bowed to em. &ldquo;Yes, yes! It is nice to meet you. You&rsquo;ll have to forgive me for not shaking your hand, I don&rsquo;t like being touched. Follow me, though, I&rsquo;ve staked out a booth where we can talk.&rdquo;</p>
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 <p>Ey felt helpless to do anything but.</p>
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 <p>&ldquo;How do you figure?&rdquo;</p>
 <p>&ldquo;Well, Debarre is a friend. A smart one, but I think he mostly got the position by virtue of being associated with me and the lost. The S-R Bloc three are spooks who won&rsquo;t even tell us their names. Zeke is a true-believer; good at what he does but without the faintest thought for how it goes over. user11824 is the opposite. He wears his anonymity like a brand, but does not actually do much.&rdquo;</p>
 <p>&ldquo;And then there&rsquo;s us,&rdquo; Jonas said, nodding. &ldquo;The ex-WF rep and whatever the hell you are.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I am just me.&rdquo; True Name mused. &ldquo;I do not know what that is, precisely, but I am just me. I am no longer Michelle, not by a long shot. I maintain none of her meekness and very little of her surplus of empathy. I have lost who she was to become myself.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I am just me,&rdquo; True Name mused. &ldquo;I do not know what that is, precisely, but I am just me. I am no longer Michelle, not by a long shot. I maintain none of that constant state of distraction, none her meekness, and very little of her surplus of empathy. I have lost who she was to become myself.&rdquo;</p>
 <p>Jonas nodded. &ldquo;For the better, I&rsquo;d say.&rdquo;</p>
 <p>&ldquo;Do you think she was not a good council member?&rdquo;</p>
 <p>&ldquo;Oh, she was fine. Good ideas. Smart. What she lacked was direction, which you make up in spades.&rdquo;</p>
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 <p>&ldquo;What is next? Probably keeping in touch with Yared and helping him draft the amendment. I am sure that most of it will be councilor Demma&rsquo;s work, but that he has been given at least partial responsibility means that we will &mdash; must &mdash; have a hand in it as well.&rdquo;</p>
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