[Your consciousness hangs suspended in solar wind and swept into timeless, unknown space, touched by the breadth of the cosmos.]
.IX. | of course. .con|sider this. card calling. intro|duction is a late|r scene. a mess|age, but for now… a w.or.d
[An endless ivory plane extends. The truth of time is laid bare here in opposition to you, Cause and Effect are predeterminate Law. What has happened will occur. What occurs has happened. What will happen has occurred. You challenge the hierarchy with a paracausal question, but it is squelched by a higher fourth-dimensional order. The time for that question is layers and folds beyond this one.]
[Unknown Space curls away.]
re|lax, my good | abiogenesis. there | is | no | danger. take | .this . g|limp|se of | clarity. y|our ideas of Nine | are quaint. .we can educ|ate.
[There is heavy, inescapable gravity. Weight. Responsibility. Authority. Flair. Control. Swirling matter and particulate, once, and again, a blazing star. Power, enough to hold back endless nothing. Fusion churns heat and light from eternal vacuum with familiar atomic magic. A white-hot phosphorous, like snapping a fingertip match.]
.we. are a | part of you. as much as you | of us. pre|dating y.our wrink|led gardener.
.caught .in the mid|dle with you: an inter|connected syst.em that share|s one fear | one dream.
[The moment burns bright—but ahead in the long bend from non-existence into being, into nebula, into compression, lies hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon-dead; fossilized consumption. Anywhere along the infinite folding splays of perspective: birth, life, death, curved outward and back, in long elliptical recursion. Gravity coaxing collapse. Dark energy coaxing dispersion. Matter and thought suspended between.]
free|dom and .death. a|bility to cho.ose
one|s orbit
one|s ties
one|s fate.
.Nine. see the g|rave on level | plane be.side our birth | experienced eternally
.breeding fear.
[Caught in an entropic whirl. A race to the bottom where the winner starves.]
.amoebas |to arthropods | to apes. run out the c|lock | scratch out the op|tions. .get real despe|rate. .commit the acts | promised not to .because | their syn|apses have cut furrows. then, they die.
[Many extinctions blot the gentle bend, the anxiety, the shockwaves of their scars felt through all layers. Always. Inescapable.]
|life|
.burn|s
out.
.even | me.
.but not you | that old ill|uminated a|biogenesis. so bright and sharp | in you. y|ou have felt th|is. and you a|re a we|apon to defy f|ate. we|ve been .eager.
[A non-dimensional being sinks into the fabric and wrinkles the ripples of fate.]
.for at|tracted orbits. to | cross. .i |get| the game.
[Life flourishes across Sol as you descend through epochs, as if stepping off your intended line. Reaching into the seams, unfolding relativistic fabric, the edges curling back into an eternal recurrent knot from which they first receded.]
.comple|xity | fractalization. we're both life | givers, baby.
[The future deeper in, the past draped over and around you.]
to|gether we can. circumvent establish|ed ends. i forge | new from old | all the | time.
[You sink through spacetime until a Red Giant engulfs the inner planets.]
[You are cold.]
.you won|'t find t|he answers .you want yet, darling. it is not time. the first time a|round.
[Your boundaries know violation.]
.we can't | all just snap .our fingers | and .transcend our de|sign.
.talk soon.
[You stand on Kepler. Alone again.]