When Crui awakens fully, having seen his memories and reconstructed himself...

Having reconstructed myself fully. There is a thing I notice. from the difficulty, from the difference in my reconstruction of myself. I have grown larger. Physically, my self can hold more.

I leave my pod and go to He Who Defends. He is defending us; he is protecting us. He shall not think too much so to be less tired.

I embrace him, sending but gratitude, to not distract, and sharing in his experiance and his role. When he goes to rest one must defend, and we all learn that best from him.

Gratitude, is his only response,

I reach for the food, I make sure He Whoe defends eats. eats, I have grown. I use the eye to see. Am I as the large ones?

I am not, Not as large, and as I am nearing their size more, I better see the differences between us. In our tendrils, in their lengths and amounts... Shifting in forms is related to maintenance, which is related to healing. I go to the shards and our shared memories to put this there for Hlei.

And, are we in danger from them? to be subsumed into their hive as members? danger in their healing? Shards and pods and memories are scarce. They collect their materials from their nets. These too? I leave these without conclusion, if we are leaving them. They shall not be answered. If, in their management of their hive, they leave it like this.

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Why would we leave our great project? It is complete here in design but not in application. The tools exist. They have them. The capabilities exist. They did when I last woke, and when Ur-Im last updated these memories. Why can we not pursue this?

We must remain among ourselves. But we also must provide for them as they have provided for us. They were with us. The edge dwellers cared for us. Treated us as members of the hive. Provided food for our labor...

The implementation of our great project here is incomplete. We would be leaving the large ones with their worse healers with less efficient roles.

But our hive needs healing, and we still must find it.

I shall upgrade our ship while I have them complete their great project. We cannot leave on our own. We shall trace our path. And we shall leave when this is complete.

I go to leave our ship, and He Who Defends reaches to me.

We shall not go; we cannot risk our pods and memories. Those who practise roles change.

And I too, have changed. We shall understand their constructions better.

Crui is needed to guide the ship so not to get lost, to continue on our way.

I search through our memories for a reason. What of the large ones? Thier communications and understanding. One brought us here. And maybe one can bring us.

He stop Crui there. This thought of Crui Would it be sufficient?

Crui cannot say that it will. But they too need our protection. And the count is lost anyway. It is the work we were doing for them; they are not our enemies. We would not just take like this from our own hive.

We already have... Crui shall tie himself to the ship with a long strand of net material. He shall not go too far; I shall watch and pull. and if needs be... He is an edge dweller. He is completing their great project. His pod shall be one of theirs, as it should be after the project with all the necessary memories stored within. Do not bring more shard than necessary. They shall be as if they are fused into a single pod.

I... gratitude.