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[conning]

"It's Caffrey. Remember the value of plausible deniability. I'll get back to you."

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[themostfun]

She's in stasis.

I'm just curious. I didn't ask her for any details. She was upset about it, according to those neon signs we all had a while back.

[conning]

I wasn't sure if she'd woken up or if someone had come after her, but

Ah. I saw that one.

Like I said, it's complicated. We were discussing a friend of mine. Some issues they were having. I offered to help and she discounted my ability to be objective because of my emotional attachment to my friend, and ignored everything I said to illustrate that I was perfectly capable of calling him on his own bullshit in private, just like I do with her and Eiffel and everyone else I respect. I got irritated, she doubled down, and it didn't end well.

We've talked. It's not all settled, but it's all at least in the open. We understand each other better after the fact I think. Or I understand her a little better, and how convinced she can be of her own objectivity, because she can't always tell where emotion and logic intersect. I don't think she's convinced yet that emotion and logic can coexist.

[themostfun]

I'm glad you talked about it. It's important to her that her friends know she cares, even if she can't show it in a typical way.

She really does care about you. I wanted to know what happened so I can support her better and help if I could, and if I should.

[conning]

I care about her. A lot. I love her. But I also can't and won't accept her apparent premise that being emotional makes me less objective on certain things, or that total objectivity is necessary for productive conversation.

[themostfun]

Of course. We both know that's a false premise.

Thank you for telling me what happened.