multiplicity_archives | comparison, and another question

While we were in the shower, we came to a weird, yet oddly rational, realization.

Has anyone else here read Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series? Well, we were thinking that the way our system operates and swaps fronts is kinda like the way the Fates did it, only no physical body changes. And that there's more than 3, and more keep creeping out.

Which leads us into our question: since embracing my multiplicity, we've noticed that Others have been slowly creeping forward and saying hi. Well, Niko didn't really creep forward, he kinda bounded Out, but he's a wolf. So we forgave him (ok, the rest of us did, but Shardae is still a little put out about it.) Plus, Ceri, Niko, Maari, and Shardae have all been coaxing the Others to come forward, but they haven't. At least, not enough for me to get more than a passing sense of them, enough to know they're there, but nothing else. Has anyone else been like this? Could it be that they're still frightened of what my (Heather's) reaction would have been before I realized I wasn't alone? We're all pretty much in constant contact with each other, except when one of us goes In.

I know. We're asking a lot of questions, but we're all new to this, and we want to know the best way to coax the rest out.