Move 2.7b Recap - Revision history

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 ==The hallway outside Jedao's room: Reshad and Sasha; messages from Sulen==
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 Reshad describes her interest as both personal and strategic: "What I want is for this rebellion to succeed." She recognizes Eshpatan's history, offering, "I was ten when I went to the Vidona school. But if you saw the files, you know as much." Sardonic, Jedao says, "Because the rebellion is the most useful means to an end, or because you're invested in the specific organization? There did seem to be some amount of interpersonal division." On the Vidona, he remarks, "Old enough to remember, then, and young enough to be malleable, as the heptarchate counted these things. I can't imagine it was very different in your time." Reshad tells him, "Because this rebellion is the most useful means to end the tortures. Because I was assigned here - and because we hold an advantage over every other organization I have seen. Division is a kind way of putting it." As to the Vidona, she says only, "It wasn't so different in my time."
-==notes==
+==Alliances and allegiances==
-So the Cantata is like Sasha, then: everything they know about who they are comes from their nurses' stories.
+Sasha is disconcerted by the strength of emotion that her decision to accept Jedao's oath creates. Ione and Sulen are both sympathetic to her feelings, though Sulen continues to distrust new oaths in general and Jedao in specific. Sasha is further disconcerted by her own inability to control her exotic power, to which her general unease about Jedao no doubt contributes, though her intense emotional responses to Ione and Reshad are more immediate precipitating factors. The team responds with curiosity and an awareness of potential tactical advantages rather than fear, however.
-wow, Sasha and Seyli actually manage to communicate
+Reshad finds confronting Sasha deeply unpleasant, but Sasha is more comfortable with open than with concealed aggression, a phenomenon Reshad is beginning to recognize. The two women form a tentative truce over their common, perhaps unexpected, empathy for Jedao. Sasha chooses to take Reshad's role on the team at face value, at least for now, and attempts to work with her; in the process, she shares some of her personal vulnerability around social situations. Meanwhile, Reshad is learning to recognize Sasha's attempts at humor. Her efforts to make social connections with other team members, particularly Ione, proceed more smoothly. Even Jedao listens a little bit, though he is still wary of both her friendliness and Virmad's evident attraction to and curiosity about him.
-Reshad is recognizing and matching Sasha's sarcasm levels
+Mafyyil surprises and pleases Seyli by offering them muffins; this small interaction bodes well for Mafyyil's team integration, though she needs more cultural context than anyone on the team has attempted to provide. In particular, she is still more focused on the religious implications of her actions than on the team's overall goals. Seyli's sense of isolation due to their concern about Jedao is mitigated somewhat, first through their unexpected conversation with Mafyyil, then through Sasha's intervention. Sasha is able to connect with Seyli both because they share an interest in building strength, and because she is forthright about the dangers the team faces.
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 Jedao tells her, "I appreciate your efforts to motivate me. But I can't be the only one who's lost family or friends or lovers." Reshad says, "Of course not. But you're the first one I've asked." Her smile clear evidence of former pain, she adds, "And my family would no more recognize Shuos Reshad than they would Hexarch Mikodez." Jedao says, "I can hardly be, the only asset whose loyalty you'd like to secure. Is this is a personal interest, or a strategic one?" Responding to Reshad's personal revelation, he tells her, "That's a difficult position to be in. My birthworld Eshpatan 'chose' to join the heptarchate in my grandparents' time. It was a fact of life by the time I was born, but I heard some of the stories."
-Reshad describes her interest as both personal and strategic: "What I want is for this rebellion to succeed." She recognizes Eshpatan's history, offering, "I was ten when I went to the Vidona school. But if you saw the files, you know as much."
+Reshad describes her interest as both personal and strategic: "What I want is for this rebellion to succeed." She recognizes Eshpatan's history, offering, "I was ten when I went to the Vidona school. But if you saw the files, you know as much." Sardonic, Jedao says, "Because the rebellion is the most useful means to an end, or because you're invested in the specific organization? There did seem to be some amount of interpersonal division." On the Vidona, he remarks, "Old enough to remember, then, and young enough to be malleable, as the heptarchate counted these things. I can't imagine it was very different in your time." Reshad tells him, "Because this rebellion is the most useful means to end the tortures. Because I was assigned here - and because we hold an advantage over every other organization I have seen. Division is a kind way of putting it." As to the Vidona, she says only, "It wasn't so different in my time."
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 After a long silence, Jedao says, "I couldn't find information on what happened to my family after I turned coat." Reshad apologizes for her lack of information; as a Temuy newly assimilated to the hexarchate, she had avoided showing too much interest in families. "Do you think they'd be interested in rebellion?" Jedao says, "''Rebellion''? Not unless it involved bioengineering or, I suppose, radical poetry. My sister was the poetical one; I don't have the ear for it, I'm afraid." Serious again, he adds, "I know what the heptarchate does to the families of traitors." Reshad says, "The hexarchate is not kind to them, either. Truly, I don't know. We can find out, if it helps. Or, if your disappearance is likely to endanger them? We can try to prevent that from happening." Jedao shrugs.  "It's important to ''me'', but that doesn't make it an operational priority for your group. I do understand the distinction."
-Reshad says, "I wouldn't suggest otherwise. But as you say, we'll need something to come after our triumph. A poet can inspire and chronicle; that is valuable in itself. Biology isn't going to be optional -you've heard about the Mothlings. And no doubt there will be stranger things than I have yet imagined. So - I won't promise success, but we can make a pitch for pulling them out. The nice thing about time travel is that we can regroup and plan. Soonest is only best in linear calendars." Jedao tells her, "I appreciate your efforts to motivate me. But I can't be the only one who's lost family or friends or lovers."
+Reshad says, "I wouldn't suggest otherwise. But as you say, we'll need something to come after our triumph. A poet can inspire and chronicle; that is valuable in itself. Biology isn't going to be optional -you've heard about the Mothlings. And no doubt there will be stranger things than I have yet imagined. So - I won't promise success, but we can make a pitch for pulling them out. The nice thing about time travel is that we can regroup and plan. Soonest is only best in linear calendars."
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 Jedao says, "I always wondered what that would be like. I didn't dare wait until it was instituted, for the obvious reasons." Less distantly, he continues, "Formation instinct is a perversion of Kel service. What happened to dissenters? The histories available to me were vague on that point." Reshad says, "Dissent is called failure among the Kel. I'm not clear either, on what they do to dissenters. I assume they're given to the Vidona, but they may have a different way of handling it before they cut a member off. When I was a cadet, someone I knew had a Kel cousin who was disowned when it was found that formation instinct didn't take. I never heard about them after that. Was it different, among your Kel?" Jedao says, "The families themselves sometimes covered up disgrace, in my time. But the records were usually public, unless the mission itself was classified. It doesn't matter anymore--I've given up my rank." Rubbing his left wrist, which is scarred, he adds, "It's been years since I went around ungloved." Reshad says, "I know we have at least a few former Kel in the rebellion. One of whom you've met. Here, at least, it's more complicated than disgrace. It must be strange. An organization I was assigned once had scarves of rank. For months I was trying to adjust the fall." She gestures toward her neck in illustration.
-After a long silence, Jedao says, "I couldn't find information on what happened to my family after I turned coat." Reshad apologizes for her lack of information; as a Temuy newly assimilated to the hexarchate, she had avoided showing too much interest in families. "Do you think they'd be interested in rebellion?" Jedao says, "''Rebellion''? Not unless it involved bioengineering or, I suppose, radical poetry. My sister was the poetical one; I don't have the ear for it, I'm afraid." Serious again, he adds, "I know what the heptarchate does to the families of traitors." Reshad says, "The hexarchate is not kind to them, either. Truly, I don't know. We can find out, if it helps. Or, if your disappearance is likely to endanger them? We can try to prevent that from happening."
+After a long silence, Jedao says, "I couldn't find information on what happened to my family after I turned coat." Reshad apologizes for her lack of information; as a Temuy newly assimilated to the hexarchate, she had avoided showing too much interest in families. "Do you think they'd be interested in rebellion?" Jedao says, "''Rebellion''? Not unless it involved bioengineering or, I suppose, radical poetry. My sister was the poetical one; I don't have the ear for it, I'm afraid." Serious again, he adds, "I know what the heptarchate does to the families of traitors." Reshad says, "The hexarchate is not kind to them, either. Truly, I don't know. We can find out, if it helps. Or, if your disappearance is likely to endanger them? We can try to prevent that from happening." Jedao shrugs.  "It's important to ''me'', but that doesn't make it an operational priority for your group. I do understand the distinction."
-Jedao shrugs.  "It's important to ''me'', but that doesn't make it an operational priority for your group. I do understand the distinction."
+Reshad says, "I wouldn't suggest otherwise. But as you say, we'll need something to come after our triumph. A poet can inspire and chronicle; that is valuable in itself. Biology isn't going to be optional -you've heard about the Mothlings. And no doubt there will be stranger things than I have yet imagined. So - I won't promise success, but we can make a pitch for pulling them out. The nice thing about time travel is that we can regroup and plan. Soonest is only best in linear calendars." Jedao tells her, "I appreciate your efforts to motivate me. But I can't be the only one who's lost family or friends or lovers."
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 Jedao says, "I always wondered what that would be like. I didn't dare wait until it was instituted, for the obvious reasons." Less distantly, he continues, "Formation instinct is a perversion of Kel service. What happened to dissenters? The histories available to me were vague on that point." Reshad says, "Dissent is called failure among the Kel. I'm not clear either, on what they do to dissenters. I assume they're given to the Vidona, but they may have a different way of handling it before they cut a member off. When I was a cadet, someone I knew had a Kel cousin who was disowned when it was found that formation instinct didn't take. I never heard about them after that. Was it different, among your Kel?" Jedao says, "The families themselves sometimes covered up disgrace, in my time. But the records were usually public, unless the mission itself was classified. It doesn't matter anymore--I've given up my rank." Rubbing his left wrist, which is scarred, he adds, "It's been years since I went around ungloved." Reshad says, "I know we have at least a few former Kel in the rebellion. One of whom you've met. Here, at least, it's more complicated than disgrace. It must be strange. An organization I was assigned once had scarves of rank. For months I was trying to adjust the fall." She gestures toward her neck in illustration.
-After a long silence, Jedao says, "I couldn't find information on what happened to my family after I turned coat." Reshad apologizes for her lack of information; as a Temuy newly assimilated to the hexarchate, she had avoided showing too much interest in families. "Do you think they'd be interested in rebellion?" Jedao says, "''Rebellion''? Not unless it involved bioengineering or, I suppose, radical poetry. My sister was the poetical one; I don't have the ear for it, I'm afraid." Serious again, he adds, "I know what the heptarchate does to the families of traitors."
+After a long silence, Jedao says, "I couldn't find information on what happened to my family after I turned coat." Reshad apologizes for her lack of information; as a Temuy newly assimilated to the hexarchate, she had avoided showing too much interest in families. "Do you think they'd be interested in rebellion?" Jedao says, "''Rebellion''? Not unless it involved bioengineering or, I suppose, radical poetry. My sister was the poetical one; I don't have the ear for it, I'm afraid." Serious again, he adds, "I know what the heptarchate does to the families of traitors." Reshad says, "The hexarchate is not kind to them, either. Truly, I don't know. We can find out, if it helps. Or, if your disappearance is likely to endanger them? We can try to prevent that from happening."
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 Reshad says carefully, "What you planned, you don't have to do it now. There are other ways to bring it down." Eyes still unfocused, Jedao responds, "I must have seen other ways, and ruled them out. Tell me--in later times, is there a Kel hivemind? Did they go through with that? There were only rumors, in my time, that it was coming down the line." Worried, Reshad says, "You may have, but there's other options now. The Kel in my time have composites. Sort of a hive mind, but not of all Kel. They have formation instinct, too, and that didn't come until well after your time."
-Jedao says, "I always wondered what that would be like. I didn't dare wait until it was instituted, for the obvious reasons." Less distantly, he continues, "Formation instinct is a perversion of Kel service. What happened to dissenters? The histories available to me were vague on that point." Reshad says, "Dissent is called failure among the Kel. I'm not clear either, on what they do to dissenters. I assume they're given to the Vidona, but they may have a different way of handling it before they cut a member off. When I was a cadet, someone I knew had a Kel cousin who was disowned when it was found that formation instinct didn't take. I never heard about them after that. Was it different, among your Kel?" Jedao says, "The families themselves sometimes covered up disgrace, in my time. But the records were usually public, unless the mission itself was classified.. It doesn't matter anymore--I've given up my rank." Rubbing his left wrist, which is scarred, he adds, "It's been years since I went around ungloved."
+Jedao says, "I always wondered what that would be like. I didn't dare wait until it was instituted, for the obvious reasons." Less distantly, he continues, "Formation instinct is a perversion of Kel service. What happened to dissenters? The histories available to me were vague on that point." Reshad says, "Dissent is called failure among the Kel. I'm not clear either, on what they do to dissenters. I assume they're given to the Vidona, but they may have a different way of handling it before they cut a member off. When I was a cadet, someone I knew had a Kel cousin who was disowned when it was found that formation instinct didn't take. I never heard about them after that. Was it different, among your Kel?" Jedao says, "The families themselves sometimes covered up disgrace, in my time. But the records were usually public, unless the mission itself was classified. It doesn't matter anymore--I've given up my rank." Rubbing his left wrist, which is scarred, he adds, "It's been years since I went around ungloved." Reshad says, "I know we have at least a few former Kel in the rebellion. One of whom you've met. Here, at least, it's more complicated than disgrace. It must be strange. An organization I was assigned once had scarves of rank. For months I was trying to adjust the fall." She gestures toward her neck in illustration.
 ==notes==