2024-06-05 - [1.4] Thermodynamics

One thing is true: it is cool. Heat must travel from hotter to colder regions of matter, and Warmth travels into the shell. Is it warmer than other things around it? Perhaps. But it is cool, it must be, or the heat from the sands and the Warm-Something that is its mother would not travel into it.

Other things are more or less true depending on who is perceiving it. It is short and squat – but it is Large and not short compared to others. It is a flat shade of navy blue – but it is less blue than some of the others around it. It is marked with five streaks of pure white, like the traveling trails of pure electricity burning a path and breaking apart – but it is often ‘face’ down and no one can see this. It is smooth – but it is also…not.

While the shell texture is smooth, the surface is covered in raised pathways and traces, all straight lines and rounded corners. Follow one, and it will eventually connect to the bottom of one of the five white streaks and stop at the small bulb. No further. Those five vias (buried?) are the end of all routes.

Lay a hand on it. Perhaps it will form a connection.