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(text-colour: grey)[Can you imagine life as one thing?]
[[=>|A star?]]
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(text-colour: grey + blue)[//Our earliest lights converge with the other, quantum rivulets melding, the fundamental laws governing each struggle, knotting and unfurling, a confused tangle of abstraction resolving itself in the same instant.
On a distant, but far more familiar wavelength, voices echo within a limestone cavern. Hands make markings more permanent then the flesh of their tongues and the clothes on their bodies. Then the entire species of the cave bear, who sighs an extinction groan under his own image, and rots.//]
[[=>|Birthday]]The grey figure walks.
[[=>|January of 2200.]]
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(text-colour: grey)[A line of code?]
[[=>|A pine tree sapling?]]//(text-colour: grey + blue)[A bear’s paw presses down upon a breast, gaining leverage as he tears another chunk into his full belly. The meat’s muddied red shoes shift with the movement, leaves heel shaped trails in the ground. The grey figure has no eyes. No nose. No ears. No mouth. But it feels that pulsing from just off the path. The DNA markers in the bear’s stomach blend with the predator’s heartbeat.]
(text-colour: red)[Its claws unsheathe.]//
[[=>|RED]] =><=
(text-colour: grey)[A star?]
[[=>|A pale blue dot?]]
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(text-colour: grey)[A pale blue dot?]
[[=>|Lights]](text-colour: grey + blue)[//It’s claws extend, matte grey into shining dark. The end comes in the form of a creature with no eyes. As the last of them fall, it’s claws retract, shambling over bodies to continue up the road. The red fades from its fingers; bleeds into the sky as the dawn comes.//]
[[=>|Claws]]
(alert:"Friday December 31, 1999. 11:59 P.M.
A ball drops, surrounded by the millions of cacophonous echoing speakers.")
[[=>|it marches]]
[[Right]]
[[Left]][[one]][[two|oneII]][[step]]<hookname|
...
(live: 99999999s)[
(replace: "...")[(link-goto: "2200")]
(stop:)
]
[[one|twoII]][[two|step]](text-colour: grey + blue)[//
Time passes. //]
[[=>|Conf]](text-colour: grey + blue)[//Wind buffeting the mountain path expedites the flaking process of remnant organic fluid splatter-caked over its form. Another hundred miles it wanders into the storm, the rain washes it clean.//]
[[=>|Caldera]]
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(text-colour: grey)[A river valley civilization?]
[[=>|Cake]] =><=
(text-colour: grey)[A freshly baked cake?]
[[=>|1999]](text-colour: grey + blue)[//Spring in Yellowstone, It wades waist deep, transecting the orange rim of a boiling sulfurous pool. The water's blue pupil stares blankly, ripples breaking it’s crystalline surface. Steam rises from swaying limbs as the creature moves, naked and phantasmal, into the forest. The trees that shift around its sightless mass grow over earth’s equivalent of a Phoenix’s eggshell nearing the end of it’s incubation period.
In one not so distant future, it leaves soundless impressions on the ash-soft ground. It blends seamlessly into a backdrop of grey snow as it stalks a line across a vast empty that one day, the years will fill with green again.
//]
[[=>|A line of code?]] =><=
(text-colour: grey)[A bulging caldera?]
[[=>|A fire]]
(alert:"Saturday January 1, 2000. 00:30
The last piece of confetti lands with a dull scrape in an empty times square.")
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(text-colour: grey)[A fire watchtower?]
[[=>|Next]] =><=
(text-colour: grey)[A pine tree sapling?]
[[=>|Bear II]](text-color: "white")[(text-style: "blur")[//He does not have the time to scream before it charges from the front, halving his mandible. Down the neck through the larnyx, tearing between spine and collarbone. Skewering his lungs, heart, diaphragm, kidney. Torn into the earth, breaking through his sternum with a wet crack.//]
(text-style: "blurrier")[//The pulsing stops.//] ]
[[=>|end]]
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[[=>|back]]
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His bones become clean. Then disappear altogether.
[[=>|Loop]]
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This is justified
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This is left-aligned (undoes the above)
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This has margins 3/4 left, 1/4 right
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This has margins 1/6 left, 5/6 right.The ship comes in from over starry surf.
Query turns into Qualia.
Some Other Text
(live: 2s)[
(replace: "Some Other Text")[Other Different Text]
(stop:)
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