Toledot minus epilogue

toledot/content/secession/sys/True-Name/002.tex

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Found out from what or by whom, True Name had not yet divined. Perhaps it was ju
 
 She felt constantly aware of who was around her. Not in the sense that she was being watched, though she certainly entertained that idea. It wasn't that she and Jonas might be discovered as members of the council and accosted. Nor was it that they were doing anything untoward. They were just getting together to do their jobs and do them to their full abilities.
 
-Perhaps it had something to do with lingering anxiety left over from Michelle. Perhaps it was due to the tenuousness of her position on the council---not that they doubted her as a fork of Michelle, but she did sense some hesitancy surrounding allowing forked instances to sit while the root instance did not.
+Perhaps it had something to do with lingering anxiety left over from Michelle. Perhaps it was due to the tenuousness of her position on the council—not that they doubted her as a fork of Michelle, but she did sense some hesitancy surrounding allowing forked instances to sit while the root instance did not.
 
 \emph{Maybe I have drifted too far,} she often found herself thinking. \emph{Maybe I am no longer Michelle enough to see things in the same way.}
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ She kicked his shin beneath the table, and he laughed.
 
 True Name laughed. ``Really?''
 
-``Really. They're always the sly types you need to watch out for. Nothing they say is not a coldly calculated maneuver to get you to agree with them.'' He shook his head. ``Even their wives---and they're almost always men---are probably married to them only because they told them that they loved them in \emph{just} the right tone of voice to get them to say yes.''
+``Really. They're always the sly types you need to watch out for. Nothing they say is not a coldly calculated maneuver to get you to agree with them.'' He shook his head. ``Even their wives—and they're almost always men—are probably married to them only because they told them that they loved them in \emph{just} the right tone of voice to get them to say yes.''
 
 ``Manipulative shitheads.''
 
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ True Name nodded. ``It sounds like there is no reason not to. If the System is t
 
 ``Listen to you, my dear!'' Jonas laughed. ``You sound like a dreamer, yourself.''
 
-``Perhaps.'' She grinned. ``But also someone willing to devote myself---several of me---to getting what I want.''
+``Perhaps.'' She grinned. ``But also someone willing to devote myself—several of me—to getting what I want.''
 
 ``Speaking of, what are the rest of you doing?''
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ True Name grinned, putting her finger to her snout in the universal hush sign. `
 
 ``It's up to you, yeah.'' Jonas sat back against the couch, one arm draped casually along the back. ``I honestly was surprised when no one noticed my reputation drop, but then I figured out that most people just look at the clade's reputation, rather than the instances. I have a feeling that'll change eventually, but for now, no one seems to pay all that much attention.''
 
-The skunk frowned, browsed the markets---something that felt more akin to remembering what the stats were, rather than looking anything up---and saw that, while she had less reputation than Michelle had before she forked, the clade had a good bit more, likely from what each of them were doing to build reputation. Jonas naming his clade after himself was a fairly savvy move, in the end. `Ode' having no direct ties to Michelle it seems like something unrelated.
+The skunk frowned, browsed the markets—something that felt more akin to remembering what the stats were, rather than looking anything up—and saw that, while she had less reputation than Michelle had before she forked, the clade had a good bit more, likely from what each of them were doing to build reputation. Jonas naming his clade after himself was a fairly savvy move, in the end. `Ode' having no direct ties to Michelle it seems like something unrelated.
 
 \emph{Ah well. I am still happy to have done it,} she thought. \emph{And perhaps we will find our own way to build reputation that does not involve a constant game of make believe.}