Changes

So much has happened that each time I've thought of writing I've been daunted by the backlog.

Kerem came to stay for a week; her first time off-world. She slept lots for the first couple of days without the kids and then we went exploring the station together, shopping, cooking, checking out the gardens, hanging out... I've missed her. Our lives are so different now.

We left Re-Awakened and formed our own corp: the Lutinari Syndicate. Electus Matari accepted us. I find myself at the head of a sleek and supple group of combat pilots.

Possibly because of that, I've flown again, sometimes successfully and sometimes resoundingly not. The clone with the beautiful body art spent some time in emergency coldstorage and is now being assessed for reuse in one way or another. I'd like the marks back, if they're not too freezerburnt. It might be possible to recondition the biomass.

Maia continues to grow. She's ten and a half months, now. Mobile, although not yet free-standing. Intrigued by the world, but more upset when she's left alone.

Ulf is now the executor of EM. He's given Uncle Ashlar the job of looking after some of the holding corp admin for him, which is kind, but also a recognition that Ashlar's barely able to shape stone any longer. I hope he can still do some last work, since I'd always hoped to have the supports for my own hearthstone carved by him.

Things with Jacob are still intense and primal and tender all at once. We take small steps toward togetherness. The new place is even "ours".

Falcons have been selling below index build price. Raptors have been selling below reprocess value.

I visited The Last Gate again, and fell into conversation with Punx Evangeline. She's converted to Sani Sabik to marry her lover. She tells me its philosophies aren't so different from those of the Fraction: that you can be free if you can defend yourself; that it's about helping friends. I think she enjoys blood-play with her lover, and doesn't know or care much about the rest.

I hear Bacch scammed Viper. He seems very pleased. I wonder if I should approve or disapprove or just accept it as they way things are with them.

I seem to spend a lot of time not saying things. There seem to be so few people I can actually... argue with these days.