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egypturnash"I never thought I'd be a spider," Ok'ta'ula murmured to the air. "But it was the closest thing to being nothing, and I'd been too many things that day."
The walls faded blue to violet. A swirl of glitterdust provided a voice-locus for the dirigible: "Did you choose the change?"
"Mostly." Plastic fingers traced circles on the cushions. "No, not really. It was the first one that got me out, out, out, away."
Sulusosooloo flew on in silence, slicing through the amber skygas. The dull thrum of her engines caressed her passenger. The sky she swam in darkened slowly, red storm-pillars drifting closer.
"I never thought I'd see you again," Sulusosooloo murmured. "You left so suddenly."
The spider shot to her feet, stalking around the empty dancefloor. "I didn't want to, when I was him. Didn't want to see anyone ever again."
"So you spent so long in the asteroids everyone forgot you. Did you make any connections out there?" Sulusosooloo followed her guest with rimlights, bathing her in red and gold. Ok'ta'ula couldn't escape her attention no matter where she went anyway, but this was making that obvious.
Ok'ta'ula just muttered radio fizz under her breath. Tight-coded raw noise.
"You didn't leave any of it behind, did you. Just spun silence around yourself. Did you even try?" Sulusosooloo brought up rolling dronesongs, rich forests of ambient strings remembered from Earth. "Did you even sing with the other spiders?" Ok'ta'ula kept stalking arhythmically, her feet clicking eightfold loud on the tiles.
Finally, she stopped at a window, hands tight on the railing as she stared at the approaching skywhorl.
"Bitch. Why did I have to end up with another shatter of I when I made grav-fall on Jupiter?"
Sulusosooloo, this time, chose not to respond. In silence, she dove into the most beautiful sight on the planet. Clusters of silver-winged thrillriders left her eggdrop hull, the wind howling them away on the instant. Nobody sane went straight for the eyewall.
The walls faded blue to violet. A swirl of glitterdust provided a voice-locus for the dirigible: "Did you choose the change?"
"Mostly." Plastic fingers traced circles on the cushions. "No, not really. It was the first one that got me out, out, out, away."
Sulusosooloo flew on in silence, slicing through the amber skygas. The dull thrum of her engines caressed her passenger. The sky she swam in darkened slowly, red storm-pillars drifting closer.
"I never thought I'd see you again," Sulusosooloo murmured. "You left so suddenly."
The spider shot to her feet, stalking around the empty dancefloor. "I didn't want to, when I was him. Didn't want to see anyone ever again."
"So you spent so long in the asteroids everyone forgot you. Did you make any connections out there?" Sulusosooloo followed her guest with rimlights, bathing her in red and gold. Ok'ta'ula couldn't escape her attention no matter where she went anyway, but this was making that obvious.
Ok'ta'ula just muttered radio fizz under her breath. Tight-coded raw noise.
"You didn't leave any of it behind, did you. Just spun silence around yourself. Did you even try?" Sulusosooloo brought up rolling dronesongs, rich forests of ambient strings remembered from Earth. "Did you even sing with the other spiders?" Ok'ta'ula kept stalking arhythmically, her feet clicking eightfold loud on the tiles.
Finally, she stopped at a window, hands tight on the railing as she stared at the approaching skywhorl.
"Bitch. Why did I have to end up with another shatter of I when I made grav-fall on Jupiter?"
Sulusosooloo, this time, chose not to respond. In silence, she dove into the most beautiful sight on the planet. Clusters of silver-winged thrillriders left her eggdrop hull, the wind howling them away on the instant. Nobody sane went straight for the eyewall.
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Date: 2007-02-03 01:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-03 04:29 am (UTC)...but mostly I just draw.
that said, if you hit the 'spiders' tag you'll find another little vignette on roughly the same culture; I've been obsessing on these posthuman asteroid spiders since a little before the new year.