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date: 2019-10-02
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title: "Inktober 2019 #2 - Story and poem courtesy of Sariya"
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[](/blog/inktober/2019-10-02.jpg)
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### The Europan
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Dim light of distant suns.
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Salt-slush of silent seas.
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Gravity: a tension of sorts, tidal.
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Deep vents, temperature gradients, hot, cold, hot, cold hot.
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Fermentation. Combustion. Digestion.
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It had so many ways to keep going, to stay powered, to stay alive. All those failsafes and backups, redundancies well into the double digits. Piezos, catalytics, photovoltaics, turbines, even a very efficient stomach, all in perfect working order, all ready to snap into action.
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And yet it still prefered the dim light of distant suns to remind it why.
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<div class="verse">The eighteenth whisker on the left is brown.
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I know this after countless nights awake
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beside you, watching every quiet breath.
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You puff your whiskers out on every yawn.
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On longer work-filled days, your whiskers wilt,
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exhaustion softening your features, sleep
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exerting subtle gravities to lead
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you to oneiric seas and dreamlike sands.
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I know this after countless nights awake.
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I know, I know, it's strange to watch you sleep,
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but when I can't, to know that someone can...
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at least it somehow lets me rest in turn.
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When I lay beside your sleeping form
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I know there's rest to still be had for me.</div>
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