There was another part of today’s plan.

Lyre knew there was another part to today’s plan because even though she had trouble seeing things where she was immediately there was one thing she knew she could do and she would do it. Everything else was the same because it was important; Lyre still needed food and water and shelter and Spike also needed the shelter and then that would be the end of the plan. Except it wasn’t.

Now, actually, it wasn’t the end of the plan because there was one more thing right after and that was the next plan because her first one was over already. It was hard for Lyre to remember sometimes that even if invisible things ruined her plans they would actually make them easier sometimes too and that was what happened. Even though Spike was invisible and it was hard and it ruined her first plan and confused her, now he was here and now that was one plan out of the way.

It was good because Lyre was making progress. It was also big and a little bit scary because she didn’t know exactly what was coming and wouldn’t until after sleeping and she asked the next day. And of course it was also more confusing because Spike was right there right next to her right now and he was so super invisible that he was making everything else a little invisible too.

Lyre would have to get used to that because it would always be like that until she left and she wouldn’t do that, at least her plan didn’t tell her to and she actually knew outside the plan that it wouldn’t happen either. Well it was in a plan but not one she made herself, not really a plan, it was just there. So she would be there and so would Spike and then also Kiki and Gaunt and then what she didn’t know and maybe she wouldn’t see for a while given how things were going.

One of the first things to get used to was that Lyre could see forwards but also Spike couldn’t and she knew that but now he wanted to know what was forwards and Lyre couldn’t see what was right there so it was super hard to know what he wanted to see and then make him know what she saw there. Lots and lots and lots of questions already and she didn’t really know what they meant at all and she also didn’t really know what he wanted to know from them either because sometimes he would ask a question that didn’t make sense or he would ask a question more than once too which was confusing. Really very confusing because why would you ask a question more than once?

Then anyway he stopped asking the questions for some reason because probably he could see everything he wanted to see now which Lyre checked and it was a good thing for him to do that. And then it was a lot like behind her because even though it was slightly invisible a lot of the stuff happening right now wasn’t actually and so Lyre knew what to do for her plan which was good.

First of all there would be food because that was closest and easiest to find and also there wasn’t any anywhere near the end of the plan so that was first. This part of the plan had another part to it too though because she needed other stuff in order to get the food so it would be harder and she would have to go to other places. But luckily those weren’t super far either so that was good.

They were walking walking walking and not a whole lot happened and then there was the first part of the plan and it was just a rock that she needed so Lyre picked it up off the ground and kept going. Then that was fine for a little bit and it was normal but then Spike said “Why did you pick that up?” and Lyre didn’t expect it so she had to ask what he meant and then she had to ask what she was supposed to say and that took a while of course.

What did he say? This part didn’t take long at all and apparently he just wanted to know why she got the rock. And then she knew what he said and it was talking so she had to know what to do for the rest of talking. How do I respond to the rest of the conversation?

Then this took a little bit longer but then she knew what to say so he knew so it was fine and she said it. “I need it for my plan.” Now Spike knew because he asked a question and had information which was good and because it was good for him it was good for Lyre but also there was more to the conversation too that she had to respond to.

“Do I need a rock as well?”

“No.” Then that was the end of the conversation so Spike didn’t say anything else and Lyre didn’t say anything else either and it was done. The thing about it though was that even though Lyre could finish conversations they made lots of other things invisible so now she didn’t know if the plan would still work but hopefully it would. Unfortunately there was actually no way at all for Lyre to know what a conversation would do or what the words she said would make things do but she couldn’t get rid of them either so it was fine.

But there was lots of time for plans so she had plenty of time to check if the plan was fine and even though things were invisible they didn’t change in a visible way so Lyre would do things the exact way she was going to anyway. So it was walking walking walking some more and then there was the other part of the food part of the plan and it was a thing on the ground and it was big but not super big and the plan was straightforward.

She stopped and Spike did too and it was far but not super far and she got ready to throw the rock. Then Spike said “Armadillos have armour and shit, a rock isn’t gonna work” but there wasn’t enough time for Lyre to do anything at all so she had to keep going with the plan which would probably be okay anyway so it was okay. So then it shuffled a little and she knew it was exactly the time to keep going with the plan and she threw the rock just right and it hit the thing in the right spot and it wasn’t moving anymore and now was the next part of the plan.

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Now she had time to think about Spike so she checked and he thought her plan wouldn’t work for some reason. So Lyre kept going with the plan because she could do that and think at the same time so she was thinking and also picking up the thing and holding it and it was kind of heavy but she could do it. Then right as she got back up from the ground she had a thing to say so she said “My plans are good, they usually work, don’t worry.” And there was more for the conversation so he kept talking.

“Uh, yes. Yes, I can see that now.”

But Lyre didn’t even need to say anything for that so the conversation was done and it was quiet. Then it was the next part of the plan which was actually water and shelter at the same time because they were in the same place so that wouldn’t be far at all.

So there was even more walking and even more nothing and it was long but then Spike said “Do you want me to carry that?” and when Lyre checked he wanted to change her plan a little bit but she didn’t know how. And this time Lyre was supposed to ask a question back so she said “What are you asking about?” And nothing was supposed to happen for a while so Lyre kept walking and Spike kept walking and she timed her next sentence just right.

“It looks like that’s difficult for you to carry. I can carry it more easily. Do you want me to take it and carry it for you?”

Another question for Lyre. “Can you be more specific? Are you talking about the armadillo?”

“Yes, I’m talking about the armadillo.”

Then when she asked what to say instead of being told what to say there were more questions to ask, like what he would do afterwards or if she could do other things now and stuff. Now she sort of knew how he was trying to change her plan and there was time so Lyre could ask if the new plan would be good and apparently it actually might be okay because he was right and it was heavy so it was better for him to hold it so that was an okay plan. So then she knew what to do and say.

“Yes.”

Then Lyre stopped and turned to him and he picked it up and then she wasn’t carrying it anymore but it was okay because Spike had it. And actually when she thought about her plan the end of the plan was a little bit closer so her plan was actually better now which was really super good and it was another time Lyre found out that invisible things might be good for plans sometimes too.

The reason it was closer was because there were other things she needed and now it was way easier to move while she was doing it and she could pick it up better too. So she was holding a bunch of stuff and Spike was holding stuff and the end was getting super close.

Then not very far they were at the end of the plan and Lyre was walking towards it but Spike didn’t and now the plan was different and she had to do something about it. She was asking what to do and while she was asking what to do Spike started saying things and they were more questions to answer and there were a bunch. And according to the plan the only thing to actually do was answer them.

First she had to find out what he was asking which took longer than for him to finish asking the question so she knew all at once. First he asked “Are you sure it’s safe to go in there?” And then “Is it occupied by robots or anything else?” And then “Why do you want to go in there?” And then “It could be dangerous. I’m not going in unless you have a good reason for me to go in.” And the last one she actually figured out right away because she just knew what “it could be dangerous” meant but she didn’t know how to explain that it was fine because she checked before. And after that she had to figure out the rest too and all of it was wondering what the plan was and asking to change the plan which was firm but not too firm.

And it took a while to think of the answers but then she said them. “Yes. No. It’s the end of the plan. We have to for the plan to work for us.” But there was more because he wasn’t done yet.

“What is inside that is so important to your plan? You said this area isn’t occupied, but it looks new. When was it last occupied? How do you know they won’t come back while we’re here?”

“We need water and shelter and if we don’t get it that’s not good. It was last occupied two days, two hours, and thirty-six minutes ago. It will be revisited approximately three days, twenty hours, and four minutes from now.”

“...Okay. Fine. I’ll go in.” Then he was walking and Lyre was walking and they were at the end of the plan.

The shelter was already there but they needed water but it was also right there. There were a whole bunch of pipes all over the place and they were all sealed totally tight but one of them was sealed wrong and it wasn’t quite as tight and the plan said it was okay to make it a little bit worse. But first they needed a container but there was one right there so Lyre picked up something to hold the water and then scraped it against the pipe for a while and the water started dripping and she put it under to catch all the water.

Then the water was probably okay according to the plan but the food wasn’t so the plan said to make a fire to cook it. There were wires around and what she had to do was find something that would set on fire but she already had that because it was what she was carrying so she put down all the wood beams and tore off some of her hair too which made Spike say “Hey, woah, what are you doing?” and broke a wire and it set on fire. Then she kicked the wire out of the way because the plan said after that it was danger and she went to put the food in the fire.

Then she was taking apart the food to cook on the fire and she was going over what Spike said which was alarmed like there was danger but Lyre checked and there wasn’t any and she couldn’t say anything right away immediately. Then he said “Dude, we could have just used some cloth or something for that.” And she kept going and he was quiet and then she was ready to reply.

“I’m going to cook our food. I could have, but this worked well, so I did it.”

Then that was over and the food was cooking and there wasn’t really anything else to do so now was the last part of the plan. What’s my new plan?

Of course a lot of it was blurry because it was so far behind so it made sense Lyre couldn’t see far enough to know a lot of the plan but there were always things to pick out. There was lots of travelling with Spike and there was danger too and parts she couldn’t see very well but were tough in her plan. And there were places she’d been and new ones too and at the end of it she didn’t know how but there was Gaunt and Kiki too and that was this part of the plan. Meet up with Gaunt and Kiki.

And as much as there was lots of stuff Lyre didn’t know and lots of things that didn’t make sense to her and stuff that might change and more, there was one part of the plan that she did know how to do.

Go West.