2024-07-01 - [5.5] Why?

Where? Why?

There are no answers anywhere, only questions now.

Where are those voices that fell silent? Why?

Why did the world change? Why?

Why them and not me?

Drifting so very close to the dark himself now, 033 comes close to forgetting his own name. He dreams, and remembers again the dark and the screams and the voices going silent, the sudden SLAM as the world moved. Mother? Why?

But there is also song, and voices raised together, the purposeful communication of a web of others and joint determination not to let us go. Mother is here. Why?

Is this what life is? So many things happening and no way to stop them when they are bad. Do I want life? Does he even know that mother inspects the eggs, pauses over the Nutshell, pokes at it and gets a small response, decides to give it a chance.

Liorenth wakes with a start. Ringing though him is a sense that he communicates to the clutch with a new sense of purpose, "YES I WANT TO LIVE!" (why?)