One reaches to me. Inquiring, Asking, Who am I?

I, am me, I am who I am supposed to be.

Another reaches, Who am I?

I dwell in this ship, I seek healing.

Another left, another came, and another asked. What do I want what do I need?

I need to seek healing I need to be complete.

Is this one Frei?

I am, I dwell at the edge and I seek healing and I need to know more to report back.

Frei needs to preserve the edge, to communicate meaning to go back.

Frei understands. I understand. Where is the other?

He is waiting for one that shares a similar role, that carries back the pod of one which Maintains.

I shall carry that pod, I shall go in a travel pod. I shall infiltrate, I shall be as one that becomes another to communicates and learn, and makes them accept us...

Frei is accepted. But the large ones accept only roles.

And I am the role that guarantees the edge role, that returns it, that manages their hive and sees outsiders.

Ur-Im pulls me gently and leads me, I pull my shards around me, and I am made to carry the maintainer-pod. Ur-Im assists Frei in this. And I go to my role.

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I let Frei on his way. To do as he has done and as he will do. He who defends inquires from me, Is he trustworthy? is he complete? is he one of us? is he an imposter?

He is an imposter, and he is Frei. At least in part. His goals may be our goals. But he shall act in his role. And in the role, he is building for himself.

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Can we trust what he will bring back to our Hive?

You, He Who Defends, don't even trust that we can return as the hive. But what he finds for us. And does for the ship can be trusted.

We cannot leave him alone, he shall try and change us.

You Defend, He Defends. For safety, your decisions will be followed. At the very least Ur-Im acts as so.

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I deliver the Maintainer role-pod to its location.

After I deliver the pod, the large one reaches to me inquiring of my role.

I reinforce our communication, my tendrils were involved.

Again an inquiry. What role is this one acting within?

This one ensures that pods and memories are properly utilized. It is a small role-pod. It carries memories from one role to another.

And so we travel to those that manage the memories, that manage the hive. and as we travel I reach I communicate I listen to the large one's the ones that live in this hive, to the shards added to my Travel-pod. The memories of Hlei, her loss, even when down Hlei came to me. To heal me, to make me complete. I understood the large ones before. I understand them more so now.

And I act within one of their roles. But I am not them.

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We manage the efficiency of the hive, and two come before us.

One went to get back role pods from the edge, and another was there in a similar role.

The first one succeded his position at the edge to the other, and leave to recycle more memory.

But this other, why does he not bring with him memory from those that dwell at the edge?

They are occupied in the task of watching until contamination leaves the hive, completing projects to make other roles more efficient, and acting as a far transfer point for the polishing of memories. One carrying this role shall distribute their memories.

This needs to be discussed and understood we cannot let one acting indevidualy decide on such things.

The memories shall reach be redistributed. But those who occupy the roles understand it best. Inquiry, what roles need memory, what roles have excess capacity?

It is not this one's role to do so it is ours.

This one's role is simply to gather them when needed and to make sure that tasks are completed and distributed when needed. the roles at the edge shall exist for at most 3 more cycles, are resources scarce?

There is an excess of building material, there is an excess of food. There is a dearth of memory. There need create another healer pod.

Those that maintain the edge's role is changing again, it is adjusting, and much inefficiency is being removed. The if there is an excess of building material they can be brought to build structures that remove that need less maintenance and protect the structures that exist...

Eventually I leave, I return to the edge-structure, to the ship, to the others.

To my pod. I return, reaching, communicating, inquiring, and letting it be known. And I return ot my pod as Frei. To once again attempt stupor.