An innocent robotics researcher's lab has been demolished, the roboticist is dead, the lab assistants range from dead to traumatized, and a pocket everything on one of the rioters shows a recent text exchange - innocent, but anything could be code.
The greys arrest the other party to the conversation.
"I think he was probably less singleminded when Aly was alive," he tells Kib. "Actually I know he was less singleminded because they couldn't possibly have met. I didn't ask if she was the motivation for the disease crusade but - seems likely."
"And I think that whether or not you, uh, actually get along with him or whether he's straight or - any of that - it'd make him really really happy that you were alive and well. So it might be worth telling him that even if you still don't have enough to go off in terms of actually liking him."
" - how? It's not correlated with anything else - at least not among Amentans - he was not attracted to anybody in the coffeeshop but that's hardly conclusive -"
"I think that Aydanci's sexuality might be 'my wife is dead' but I don't know what it was before that."
Hug.
Kib goes to Lapis.
He can find the house without asking for directions.
He knocks.
"Okay, so, my name is Akibel Mowar. I'm eighteen. For a few years now I have been having strange, vivid, pedestrian-in-content, memorable dreams which are - memories from a first person perspective. Aly's. Out of order but - mostly childhood. So far."
"I realize exactly how it sounds and I'm very sorry to interrupt you with bizarre claims but Aitim thought you'd want to know I'm - okay -"
"I don't - remember you," apologizes Kib. "I assume I will at some point but the dreams are random and I don't yet. But I have Aly's personality and I'm getting her memories and I'm okay."
View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
