"We didn't lose who we were," Jara replied, appearing as a soft glow beside them. "We just stopped being parts and started being the whole."
"I was just thinking about the Old World," Kaelen sent back, the thought-pulse tinged with a melancholy Jara wouldn't quite understand. "About when they were afraid of losing who they were."
They checked their personal log. It was the year 3062—exactly a millennium since the "Great Shift" had begun. On their screen, an old digital fragment flickered: a scanned page labeled . It was a relic from the early 21st century, a conversation between two long-dead thinkers speculating on a time when "sexual difference is in the individual, not a case of belonging to one half of the species or the other".
