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Reed returns home to Hanne and both speak about the ways in which they are beginning to grieve. He also brings up the idea of this reconstruction of Marsh, and Hanne expresses doubt that this will work, and if it does, that it might cause further grief. When he meets up with Dry Grass the next day on a date for lunch, the two discuss the sense of the world as it has become, Dry Grass's past as a systech — she had left due to the changing nature of the job, but her up-tree instance, In The Wind, remained to keep up on the work — and she also cautions him as to the potential for social pain as a result of this merger. | Reed returns home to Hanne and both speak about the ways in which they are beginning to grieve. He also brings up the idea of this reconstruction of Marsh, and Hanne expresses doubt that this will work, and if it does, that it might cause further grief. When he meets up with Dry Grass the next day on a date for lunch, the two discuss the sense of the world as it has become, Dry Grass's past as a systech — she had left due to the changing nature of the job, but her up-tree instance, In The Wind, remained to keep up on the work — and she also cautions him as to the potential for social pain as a result of this merger. | ||
A meeting with phys-side, happening concurrently, explores the ramifications of the Century Attack, keeping 8-stanza-1 locked in [[ | A meeting with phys-side, happening concurrently, explores the ramifications of the Century Attack, keeping 8-stanza-1 locked in the [[DMZ]], and the mechanism of the CPV device. Jonas and Answers Will Not Help goad Jakub to try and frustrate him into quitting as well as to make Günay feel better, and it's suggested that this is also to encourage her to upload where she can become a long-term asset. Discussions of potential memorials begin, as well as ceremonies both sys- and phys-side. After discussing information consolidation and control, Reed asks about the cross-tree merging and, after a demonstration between Jonas Fa and Jonas Ko, decides to disregard the warnings and go through with his plan to reconstruct Marsh. | ||
The process of the reconstruction is discussed, including the fact that this New Marsh will include all of the clade's memories ''except'' Marsh's concludes with each of the Marshans forking and merging into Lily's new instance. The merge itself (minus reconciling conflicts) takes several hours and is an immensely unpleasant process, but New Marsh comes out of it well enough. The clade invites Vos and Pierre over to meet them, but Vos, unnerved, asks the new cladist the last thing that Marsh had said to her. Without those memories, they can't say, so Vos, angered by what she sees as meddling and a shallow attempt at rebuilding her partner without her input, his Reed hard enough to knock him down and leaves, demanding no contact going forward. The Marshans leave to process what happened, and New Marsh renames themself [[Anubias]] and decides to continue on as they are, trying to live life as an amalgam. | The process of the reconstruction is discussed, including the fact that this New Marsh will include all of the clade's memories ''except'' Marsh's concludes with each of the Marshans forking and merging into Lily's new instance. The merge itself (minus reconciling conflicts) takes several hours and is an immensely unpleasant process, but New Marsh comes out of it well enough. The clade invites Vos and Pierre over to meet them, but Vos, unnerved, asks the new cladist the last thing that Marsh had said to her. Without those memories, they can't say, so Vos, angered by what she sees as meddling and a shallow attempt at rebuilding her partner without her input, his Reed hard enough to knock him down and leaves, demanding no contact going forward. The Marshans leave to process what happened, and New Marsh renames themself [[Anubias]] and decides to continue on as they are, trying to live life as an amalgam. | ||
An epilogue follows (which is co-written by Madison Scott-Clary and The Lament) where, about eight months later, Reed has finally received word back from the instance of Marsh that lives on on Castor. He brings this letter along with him as he attends a play put on by Dry Grass's cocladists. The play is a metaphor for the Century Attack, and it leaves all distraught. After, he discusses the letter with Dry Grass and her cocladists ''[[Motes Played|And We Are The Motes In The Stage-Lights]],'' ''[[Beholden|Beholden To The Heat Of The Lamp]]<nowiki/>s,'' and ''[[A Finger Pointing|Time Is A Finger Pointing At Itself]]''. They discuss the different ways that they have learned to live as a clade without a root instance and the hopes they have for the future. | An epilogue follows (which is co-written by Madison Scott-Clary and The Lament) where, about eight months later, Reed has finally received word back from the instance of Marsh that lives on on Castor. He brings this letter along with him as he attends a play put on by Dry Grass's cocladists. The play is a metaphor for the Century Attack, and it leaves all distraught. After, he discusses the letter with Dry Grass and her cocladists ''[[Motes Played|And We Are The Motes In The Stage-Lights]],'' ''[[Beholden|Beholden To The Heat Of The Lamp]]<nowiki/>s,'' and ''[[A Finger Pointing|Time Is A Finger Pointing At Itself]]''. They discuss the different ways that they have learned to live as a clade without a root instance and the hopes they have for the future. | ||