Story about Hammered Silver losing her shit and cutting out the fifth stanza for good because of Sasha and Motes
vague outline
- AFP and HS have regular meetings until Abt 2300
- As Motes gets more public HS starts skipping meetings, eventually says “I don’t agree with Motes and I don’t want to talk about it”
- her feelings are that there are children and there are adults, that this is what makes a mother a mother to someone, but Motes is her, so she can’t be a child; she’s appropriating child-ness. Add in the family dynamic with AFP and Bee, including their relationship, and HS is really fucking mad
- meetings go from friendly chats to all but explicitly keeping tabs on the other stanza
- HS cuts contact with fifth over Sasha joining ALDR
- when Dry Grass continues seeing Motes (who she met via Warmth, worked with it on systech integration for oneirotecture), HS sends Motes an angry letter Abt “stop talking to Dry Grass, you’re an abomination etc etc” all HOA president having a fit
- Motes goes to AFP and Beholden with note: not going to stop talking to Dry Grass, not going to stop being herself, but wants to know how to deal with the pain.
- HS also sends AFP a note
- AFP wants to be careful because this is a post True Name, post Qoheleth world, asks Sasha and Dry Grass if she needs to worry, both say no, confirmed by Waking World, who explains that HS is just having a tantrum. She doesn’t really care if anything changes, she doesn’t even want it to, she doesn’t want to win an argument, really, she just wants the other person to hurt
- AFP messages HS, saying “that really hurt Motes and it really hurt me etc etc”, letting it get to her enough to make it believable
- HS, as predicted, gets all snooty and proud, agrees to go back to no contact, leaving Motes alone, etc.
- end on a note of healing
loose threads
- The dynamic between Dry Grass and HS is very “uh huh sure okay whatever you say” but doesn’t actually change anything; does this finally change after the argument?
- Waking World has made it his job to keep HS on a leash; maybe a second conversation after? The first conversation through Dry Grass (“oh yeah, WW says HS can’t do shit, she’s just looking to make you feel bad”)
Outline
- Intro — About Motes; Motes paints; Beholden and boss are heading out; Dry Grass comes over
- Sasha speaks — Motes talks with Sasha about what happened.