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January 2 - February 2, 2024
found only in the evergreen forests of the Antlers.
WARNING:
Travel along pre-Transition roads is strongly discouraged
the Wild...
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everything about the day ahead of them felt like a chore.
This action should have made Dex feel guilty,
It didn’t. It felt great.
What are you doing? they thought. The hell are you doing? I don’t know, they replied with a nervous grin. I have no idea.
the Kesken Forest,
The road itself was a relic,
an oil road,
this unkind surface,
Personification nice
how intimidatingly tangled.
The wilderness was not known for letting the foolish return.
“Allalae holds, Allalae warms,”
“Allalae soothes and Allalae charms.
Haha
Haha simile
a place made specifically for humans.
flickering flirtatiously.
Personification
They had canceled their life, bailed out on a whim.
Dex didn’t know who they were, in that moment. Perhaps that was why they were smiling.
The kind of nod that nodded best when it had no audience.
Mosscap,”
The Parting Promise.
Splendid Speckled Mosscap,
Do you have a gender?” “No.” “Me neither.”
I have a remnant of chairs, but I’ve never sat in one.”
“I am here,” it said, “to see how humans have gotten along in our absence.
my kind would still very much like to be left alone. But we’re also curious.
Haha
“So, you’re … checking in?” “Essentially. It’s a little more specific than that.”
“You understand how resource-heavy consciousness is, yes?
Haha very clever
I was sent here to answer the following question: What do humans need?”
“How do you know when you’re satisfied?”
“The bear,
the All-Six Sigil,
Question
Haha
Someone like you made us. How could I think any other way?”
Haha - exactly my thesis about “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” (H. Ellison) and “Second Variety” (P.K. Dick) - sentient robots (A.I. with consciousness) have the same kind of thinking as their creators (humans), including all their worst traits.
Haha
its glowing eyes
More fun.”
Haha
Haha
Haha
Haha
YES! Time to get to know one another too.
asking them if they could swap a crash course in a couple centuries of human culture for backcountry trail escort.
They were a fucking tea monk, not an academic or a scientist,
Haha
Dex barely remembered what the Parting Promise was.
Moses and Aaron haha
