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Ioan and Dears partner shook their heads, while both Serene and Praiseworthy frowned.
*"The origin of the system
*"The origin of the system came from the turmoils of the early twenty-second century, though one could perhaps trace roots further back into the twenty-first. Prior to the system, the 'net on Earth required engaging with through another thing called exocortices. Implants along the spine, with tendrils trailing along nerves."*
You're still stuck with the knowledge that they exist and their inventory. That's why I can't forget **that** the Name exists. I can't forget my origins or that there's an exo containing them. One which I can't forget. Not unless I go through the whole shitty process again --- sorry, Serene, it wasn't pleasant. I could get that bit of knowledge, but then what? I'll have the knowledge that I have an exo that I can't access pointing to something of dire importance."*
Serene and Praiseworthy both reached up to rub at the backs of their necks.
*"And the lost, those unlucky few, wound up trapped in a dream, mirrored between cerebral cortex and exocortex. They --- we --- were trapped along with all the knowledge that had been cached in those early exos."*
"You mean they kept the name to refer to something similar?"
Dear shrugged. *"I suppose. All that we experienced in that dream also wound up cached in those implants, and it was that cache that helped the engineers on the early system to contruct the shared dream that is the system today."*
Ioan ground eir palms against eir slacks. This information, this dump of the past, was doing nothing to quell the anxiety of the hours past. "Right, okay. How are they only an iffy fix to forgetting?"
*"You're still stuck with the knowledge that they exist and their inventory, yes? That's why I can't forget **that** the Name exists. I can't forget my origins or that there's an exo containing them. One which I can't forget. Not unless I go through the whole shitty process again --- sorry, Serene, it wasn't pleasant. I could get that bit of knowledge, but then what? I'll have the knowledge that I have an exo that I can't access pointing to something of dire importance. Can you imagine that feeling of lingering dread being a constant factor in life?"*
Ioan shifted, leaning forward to rest eir elbows on eir knees, eir chin in eir hand. Ey sipped eir coffee as ey thought.
Serene piped up next. "I get what you're saying, Dear, but I don't want to die. I don't want you to die, either."
Serene slouched against Dear's side, poking its thigh. "I get what you're saying, Dear, but I don't want to die. I don't want you to die, either."
Dear's partner, frowned. "Neither do I, fox."
The fennec laughed and shook its head, ears flopping about. *"Trust me, I don't either. I don't think many do. I just think we need death, or something like it, as part of the system. Death. Fear of death. Needs and reasons and an inevitable end."*
The fennec laughed and shook its head, ears flopping about. *"Trust me, I don't either. I don't think many do. I just think we need death, or something like it, as part of the system. Death. Fear of death. Needs and reasons to survive in the face of an inevitable end."*
"'Something like it'?" asked Praiseworthy.
*"We need a way for an individual to end. We also need a way to create new individuals. Qoheleth called it breeding, but it could just as easily be a way of ending one individual and having them live on as another."*
*"We need a way for an individual to end. We also need a way to create new individuals, so perhaps they should be related. Qoheleth called it breeding, but it could just as easily be a way of ending one individual and having them live on as another."*
The others nodded. Silence once more.