I need to know, What is Time.

For cycles occur and carry processes.

Stupor is a process it occurs as a cycle.

But time is related to these and other things. Some sort of count exists, for a number of cycles an amount of time. So it must be a process, yet it is counted as a number. While still being one.

The other conceived of the concept. The other must know.

I reach to the edge seeking these thoughts. What is Time?

A measurement, when this one went to scout for others, if too much time passed they would move I would fi...

Is it just a measurement?

We measure time... We count...

I reach further from this line of thought, deeper communication, I reach for the connections leading into the thoughts.

And there is counting, measuring, a constant passage, there is nothing else here, nothing else but pain.

I pull back, the edge dweller has injured me, caused pain.

I have damaged, I have grasped in my attempts at inquiry parts that should not be grasped. I have reached...

This one is small, I have damaged it, harmed it. Harmed him.

That is why he struck me. Yet he sustains this communication, for he wanted our measure of time. Or measurements, as they are, for that is important. But also as they related to cycles of stupor. For he worries for the other here.

But is time measured or is time a measurement?

Time is a measure, time is measured. time is measured in counts. Counts are tied to consistent movements, cycles that do not change. Or cycles of change that always remain the same. you can not measure time if size matters to the measure, for then the measure changes.

I cut this line of thought short. Is it a measure or a measurement?

It is the measure, it is a measurement. It is the measure by which all processes occur.

Is that not cycles?

Consistent cycles are the counts, and counts are the measurement of time.

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But stupor is counted. It is a cycle. It is The Cycle. I cannot count past stupor, and beyond our stupor, we can count only amounts. It is not a traceable process, when some wake they go to roles that must be filled. But during stupor I do not exist I can not count. And the cycles continue. And others go into stupor. And the hive home survives, there is food. There is safety. Our processes continue.

But how is it known when things must be changed.

There are roles that cover that, and within the roles, I held there was always a sign, or marker that triggered when another process needed to occur.

Process, cycles are processes?

Cycles are what we are, processes occur upon cycles. Cycles upon things that have different cycles, processes, changes, growth, creation...

Creation, transformation, movement, time...

And I still do not understand. I have...

He makes motions of the shards I hold. He wants what we have gathered, and he shall store this for me.

I shall see I shall sleep I shall remember time. But I still do not understand.

He pauses, he pauses his thoughts, I pause my thoughts.

And yet I still see, I still feel there is a movement, he is holding it, the motion occurs to me as well. It goes, and it comes, and it goes and it comes.

And it will remain beyond our stupor. And we shall count this process for those are the counts that are time. And we exist. And we forget and we remember. But another can count, and we can know what we have missed.

We awaken then we go to Stupor.

We got stupor, and we Awaken. And time passes, and we continue in our role as is needed. As processes continue when they are supposed to, the others are where they are supposed to have moved to. Time allows cycles to continue during stupor.

But don't cycles all have cues? Is it not part of a role to see that something must change. That the next step has arrived. There is always one holding the role. The process continues.

is there anything you, want beyond the cycles?

As most of us due. I want to remember. To be more. To grow. To earn through my performance of roles necessary to the hive more memories and more shard so that I may be more. So that I can remember those who remember me. So that I can earn enough memory shards and pod fragments, that I can have a safer role when I grow. So that I can remember other ones and have them remember me. I want to remember, I want to be...

This one, it needs be remembered as the pattern Crui, a sensation, unlike others. If you/I go to stupor, and then you/I awaken, the ones here shall keep count and remember that you will come, there shall be a need for the role of one who Processes, and as payment now, before stupor, I shall provide you with a shard that holds our memories of this event. If you bring it here then it shall be yours. Simply come within 500 counts, and we shall provide a device that changes at fixed counts so you can know.

I can know, I can remember, before stupor. Beyond stupor?

You will be remembered here, but only by your role. Unique to you, it shall be a role of one who Processes time. One needed only on occasion, but only one who dedicates memory to it can handle it.

I...

....

I am me and my memory is me, I know not if I am willing to make me that.

It will be part of you that you can hold. If there is value for time in the hive, you shall have the access to the role that makes use of it.

If I, do this thing. Am this thing...

I need to consider this, to think it through. I shall return the shard to you when the time has passed, and I shall have the answer to these one's request then.