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<p>“Anxious of how this madness, as End Waking called it, might affect you and yours?”</p>
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<p>She nodded, averting her eyes. “I am fucking terrified, Ioan. What am I to do in the face of such enormity?”</p>
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<p>Ey blinked, taken aback. This was not how ey’d imagined the conversation would go. Ey’d pictured her providing some glib explanation for what was happening and perhaps outlining the steps that she and her close cocladists were taking to control the situation. Ey was expecting her to steer em towards confidence in her, and hopefully even to soothe eir fears about May through doing so.</p>
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<p>This wasn’t the True name ey remembered. Were these her own cracks showing?</p>
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<p>This wasn’t the True Name ey remembered. Were these her own cracks showing?</p>
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<p>Ey prowled through memories of the conversations ey’d had with her over the years — several, during those first few years after launch, then the rapid decrease after the publication of the <em>History</em> — and tallied up each against the next.</p>
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<p>“You’ve changed quite a bit, True Name,” ey said. “I don’t know what you’re supposed to do, that’s out of my league. All I can say is that you’ve changed. It looks like it takes you a lot of effort to keep the confidence that used to be so integral to your personality.”</p>
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<p>Ey watched as she bridled, subsided, and nodded. “I am not what I was.”</p>
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<p>She bowed again and stepped from the sim, leaving em to sit on the couch and finish eir tea, mulling over the differences between changing and forgetting. Without forgetting, all True Name had, all they <em>all</em> had, was the ability to change, and all they could do was hope that this would be enough to keep them all sane.</p>
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<p>They did not wait, but seemed to disappear as they shifted up to a high enough skew to travel faster than ey could perceive.</p>
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<p>Codrin nodded to the other emissaries. “Go ahead. I’ll help True Name to her room, then join up with you in a bit.”</p>
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<p>“I am sorry,” True Name mumbled, barely loud enough to be heard.</p>
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<p>“Leader True name, please understand that you are in no way responsible. Even your deception was, as you say, wargamed. We will discuss shortly.”</p>
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<p>“Leader True Name, please understand that you are in no way responsible. Even your deception was, as you say, wargamed. We will discuss shortly.”</p>
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<p>“Rest,” Artante added. “Become whole.”</p>
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<p>As the others departed Codrin held out eir arm, letting the skunk clutch it tightly as ey helped her to stand. They swayed together at the brief sensorium twinge as the unison room was skewed up by a factor of two.</p>
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<p>The walk down the hall was a slow and unsteady affair, and Codrin couldn’t help but see every one of True Name’s two and a half centuries in the way she moved. She looked as she always had, was as strong as she’d ever been, and yet each one of those long years seemed to be a weight she had to draw along behind her. She kept her grip on eir forearm throughout, however, as though the contact kept her pinned to one reality.</p>
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<p><em>All that may be, but what do I do with it?</em> ey thought. <em>And how the hell am I going to keep what I heard hidden and buried?</em></p>
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<p>There was a blurred conversation among the Artemisians, after which their leader spoke up. “In order to ensure that we answer the correct question you are asking, do you want information on how we govern?”</p>
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<p>The skunk nodded. “That, yes, but I am also interested in how you might control the flow of information across the system. Do you inject opinions, or restrict the transmission of opinions that the Council of Eight might feel uncomfortable being displayed openly?”</p>
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<p>Artante’s eyes darted over to Sarah, who lifted her eyebrows in a hint of a shrug.</p>
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<p>“I will answer the question about governance first, and then we shall proceed to the second one,” it said. “We, in our capacities of leaders, perform very few actions in the time between convergences. In many cases, we act simply as those one might go to for advice. Something less than advisory. <em>Lu</em>…”</p>
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<p>“I will answer the question about governance first, and then we shall proceed to the second one,” it said. “We, in our capacities as leaders, perform very few actions in the time between convergences. In many cases, we act simply as those one might go to for advice. Something less than advisory. <em>Lu</em>…”</p>
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<p>“More of a familial role,” Artante said. “Avuncular, perhaps. The Council is comprised of individuals who are exemplary in both intellectual and emotional intelligence from among their races, and any aboard Artemis may request a meeting in order to discuss solutions to difficult problems.”</p>
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<p>“And during convergences?” True Name asked.</p>
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<p>“During convergences, we act more in the way that you suggest. We act as a filter between the receipt of information from the converging civilization. The cases in which we might block information or shape it to our own means remain rare, but the ability to explore the ramifications of that information and prepare for possible outcomes we have found useful.”</p>
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<p><em>Wonder how the Artemisians would react to that?</em> Tycho thought. <em>True Name was honest, but not enough to bring up this little bit of trickery.</em></p>
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