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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Indigo Feed #1: I Walk Away

Loren Wood copyright 2013
I am going to Indigo to see what is really happening.

I am embarrassed to admit it, but the feeds drew me here. I am leaving Glya on Prime, among the net of my life, the blinking nodes that caught our lives together, the nodes that still ping from across the stars. At least when the receivers are repaired.

Emily Kray copyright 2013
Glya tried to convince me not to come, as much for herself as for me, as much for us as for our child. But how could I ever explain to child Pantil, with all the curious Indigo dark in her eyes, what the worlds without are like. There is no simulation to carry the dust that rises from tired boots.

And so I go to somehow make this journey hers. One day, I hope she will make Indigo's dust rise from her boot soles. One day, perhaps we will stand together on the shores of a shallow sea with the hard star rising and reach to each other in quiet communion. One day when the worlds understand what is happening on Indigo.

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