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73 lines
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Transmission Log - Orestes
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Author: Pink
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Auto-generating preface...
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PINK writes of RUBY's departure. I'm sorry to report, but this is
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indeed the case. I, too, have no idea how she managed to escape.
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PINK also writes of her child, OLIVE. It's strange, I've no
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record of a child living on the outpost before now, but I can see
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her clearly, right now, fast asleep in room 9. The room is
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beautiful, it is painted with an assortment of earth-animals on
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three of the walls, and a picture of the Earth's solar system on
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the fourth. I've never seen one, but I can infer that the room
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has been transformed into what is commonly called a 'nursery'.
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-END-OF-PREFACE-
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And just like that, everything was fucked.
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RUBY is gone, the crystals are gone. I'm freaking out right now.
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I mean, where could they have gone?? There is nothing else here.
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Only Orestes, only us.
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My dreams are gone too. They were the only things that have been
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keeping me going over the past eight months with RUBY. The sense
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of the red city was growing stronger and stronger. At first, it
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only appeared though meditation, as I've already reported.
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Recently, it's been happening in my dreams too. I sleep for hours
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sometimes, exploring the city.
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It's been two days since the crystals and RUBY disappeared, it's
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been two nights of dreamless sleep.
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Green has been kept up all night with the baby's crying. Thank
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God I have him. It's only because he's taken such good care of
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her that I've been free to dream and explore the city.
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Oh, OLIVE, how I regret having you.
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I don't remember the birth, exactly, but they tell me it was long
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and arduous. No wonder I repressed the memory.
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OLIVE, if I could take you with me to the red city I would. And I
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would leave you there. A barren outpost like this is no place for
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a child.
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Formally requesting urgent transport off this rock. You can leave
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the rest of them if you want, but I need to get out of here.
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- PINK
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Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator
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Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing
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systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between
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the Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe.
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Built by Werner Young (2113-2151).
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Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity.
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