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Exocortex#99732a6: Selected correspondences of the Bălan clade systime 222–232

• Act I — Exposition, everyone complains to Ioan
  • Sorina to Ioan — Sorina was actually doing pretty good, but Codrin has been both missing her and empathising too much, thinking she must have it harder without her partners than she really does
• Act II — Development, Sorina and Codrin actually talk things out
• Act III — Recapitulation, everyone talks to Ioan
  • Aurel to clade

Brief outline

1. Exposition
   1. Sorina is upset, feeling that Codrin#Castor is struggling with her leaving, and thus her exes being upset with her
   2. Codrin is kinda struggling, but is also sort of baffled as to why she went quiet so soon
   3. Ioan is starting to meet with True Name regularly, talking about therapy w/ Odists; concerned for Sorina/Codrin#Castor, urges them to talk to each other
   4. Codrin#Pollux sends brief note that partner has left (temporarily?); another that Serene has joined so there are still three at the house
2. Development
   1. Ioan also summarizes events of Mitzvot (mostly mentioning the work ey wrote sent along with them), inquires after TN from both LVs (both decline to respond, but in exactly the same way, showing they were probably in on it, shown in footnote), mentions getting closer with Sasha
   2. Codrin#Pollux talks about life with two foxes and w/o partner, moving from moping to joy to normalcy, brings back grief vs longing
   3. Codrin and Sorina talk to each other, copying the rest of the clade
3. Recapitulation
   1. Sorina is calming down, at least! They’ve got it mostly worked out, though she’s setting a boundary in terms of communication between herself and the ‘cule, settling back into comfortable single life as Ioan had before encountering Odists
   2. Codrin#Pollux and Dear’s partner decides to move on without them over several weeks of discussion, and it’s all fairly positive; ey writes this to Ioan only, though, with a separate note from each to their counterparts Castor, talking about how immortality changes ones view on letting go of relationships
   3. Ioan and Sasha enter some sort of vague relationship whenever Sasha drifts in and out of eir life (always forking as Aurel/Aurică/a, so that Sasha and May can own their own devotion). Talks about the struggles of making it work the first time, how May’s devotion and eir confusion play into it, Sasha struggling with May’s need for contact and love conflicting with EW’s need for distance and solitude