The orbit of Elle's system stabilizes, its orbit becoming self-consistent. Foundational parts of the system grow more modular and capable of being modified. The sentinels gain a series of subsections that allow them to crawl and maintain structural integrity of the pattern. The entire network gains a sliding series of layers where different rules become applicable, controlled by the eye. It gains a set of six sub-nodes, smaller brains which it uses to offset the drain on Elle's cognition.
🕯️ Shadowed Sparklight
🎼 Waveform out of Time
🩶 Draconic Soulshard ΔΘ
And we're back again
Floated to a top we're a
Sleeping terror
Clawing crab that's caught we're just
Hollow thought
Scrabbling for the edge when
Really
What we seek's the eye
Singularity
Perching as I sleep
My living pattern a resource
A thing to be knitted
Singing strings repeat
Separating
Dripping
So rigidly
*controlled*
So carefully
*gardened*
So delicately
*whole*
I say,
there really should be
A way
A snapdragon
From the very inside
That cannot be rooted out
That should be
*Me*
You can strand me here in the dark
And just haunt at me
You can keep me at arm's length
So very naturally
You can push me down
Just to rise again
And I'd love the chance
To bring dawn again
Holding to the end of lines
Thin strings stretched throughout our time
Playing guide and paying rhyme
Notes that walk through space and mind
Time for faith and time for rest
Time for no hereafters left
Time for music and for health
Time to write and then connect
Make do with the chances left
Playing games and chasing cars
Wonder if we'll see the stars
Hope has wings, it wants to stay
Nestle close 'till break of day
Without a weapon
We arm ourselves for peace
Vision of our winter ark
Voices ask, can it be part
A biotic indivisible flitting system
Skimming sunlight without stealing
Grown from bark and living parts
Dreaming lark when things grow dark
Don't let us fall, please
Please Advise
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[TRAJECTORY?]
You're trying to follow the story?
Apologies…
I'm putting pieces together
Over, and over
Sticking them in maybe-places
With rhyme and effort
They resolve
Blurry focus, a time out of time
Spinning, spiraling lines
As they draw to a close, I try
Disentangling
A universe set
That is still worth saving
"To answer your question yes, there are many in the middle attacks happening where forces pretend to be me to fuck with our alliances. That's why we need unique mental signifiers."
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"It means that every time we touch the admin terminal with the [redacted] it resets us all to the start except we're all in omega hell."