4... 5...
Time i counted and the ship is on it's way. We watch and we move. Ur-Im does nothing but count time and watch the path, the movement the flows, even groups of giants in the distance.
12... 13
All is recorded. And It will be simplified when a destination is reached and the memory shards are needed. I cut off that thought. I shall not strain my thoughts, so that we may all be awake. I trace a path and continue counting
24...25...
It is time I reach to he who defends 26...
I shall rest without stupor, and he shall count for now.
And before I return to my pod. I check on Wur. her motions are calmer. We shall discover how to heal her I confirm that we can help her wake...
28...29...
He Who Defends watches, He Who Protects Protects
34...
He measures. He marks potential threats, large objects bodies Potential threats. Nothing is a threat if it does not approach.
These are movements.
This is all.
No other giant seems to approach.
He reaches gently to the others, they have all grown, even He has grown.
The eye's are opperating well, Ur-im does good work, Ur-Im maintained them well.
The roles are clear, the actions are clear. The ship is moving and the flow is consistent.
Crui's paths are always improving.
Hlei found ways to maintain them, discovered decontamination it would be of value to the hive. It is good.
It is not healing, but it is part. And if Hlei can prevent injury and encourage growth... Without healing, she at least found recovery
Flight sleeps, and yet she is thinking, and yet...
He take himself away from her, He shall not get in the way of her recovery. It will be marked down like the others, he stays aware of his exhaustion they can discover, when all are awake
56... Something reaches to him
Frei is awake, Frei can maintain, Frei can guide he can follow the paths.
He Who Defends is not certain he trust Frei.
it is...
59...
Frei will keep count. Frei will keep watch, the ship cannot be harmed, healing must be found.
The ones here cannot come to harm.
He Wonders What of Frei's other hive, what of the others.
Here are some not others, he... Frei too shall protect the ones that protected Frei's self.
He Who Defends returns to his pod.
63... 64...
Frei watches, Frei counts. Frei waits for the others to wake
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Ar-lif has returned to her name, she has chosen the name. And as One Who Remembers, it is her role to know how things became what they are. To remember how the hive that exists, and how the rolls that exist were created.
Arlif went out into her overpod to see if the other held the role. And to see what was the shape of the hive.
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She Who remember was in stupor. And He Who Sees would head there soon.
Arlif accepted the role of She Who Remembers. And would follow the guidance of her memories in her shards.
If needed to consult one who remembered She Who Remembers...
Arelif is One Who Remembers. Who holds the Role of She Who Remembers.
He Who Flies reaches here, he requests the assistance of One Who Remembers
He Who Sees would sleep well.
He Who Sees seeks One Who Remembers, There is a structure in the hive, of the hive. With mechanisms unknown to him. He did not see one living inside of it. He sends her feelings contact, a sensation.
The form the of mechanism is, familiar to the wings, but far different. There is not a device that roles and the a net that covers the entrance, with a mechanism to move it to block and keep it moving with the flow...
She will have to see it, to compare to the memories of She Who Remembers.
He Will Bring her there. Has she eaten since she's awoken?
She has not.
He hands her food. In addition to what is to be delivered to the hive home.
In part as payment
to sustain those who take roles to act outside of the paths.
And so they grab their wings, and they fly to understand the lost structure.
We follow the paths and together we reach the unknown structure.
We examine it from the outside, moving around and understanding with the tools we have to better see.
It is a worn structure similar to an over-pod. It might've once been an over-pod and there is only the one entrance, Sealed with String, a web connected to a mechanism, some of it worn down with use as it has not been maintain in a while, the mechanism having it move every time, filtering out what would gather and seal it. We find the mechanism and move inside.
There is no one inside. Memories, shards. incomplete mechanisms.
Do not touch the shards. The healers died from an unknown contamination and they too were in over-pods such as these.
The healers? They died from something a compound that kills. that was brought upon the enemies and destroyed their pods.
She did not know this. They will move to those who maintain, to make sure they do not carry this material upon themselves and to rid themselves of it.
They return a mechanism to close this over-pod. It shall put but aside and stored where these things can be measured and watched. There is a danger in these holders of the memories of the dead.
She is saddened by this loss.
They go to He Who Prevents Death. Who Refuses to be Zur. To see if they are clean of Zur's-Death. The material that has brought the enemy low
Rmre-Kri is the true she who remembers. And in her memories Zur was Zur. Zur was she who created this. who abandoned it and who returned herself to Preventing death. To remove that which Zur was. To pursue what can be when there isn't healing.
They shall go to He Who Maintains. Who does not remember Zur.
They shall head to Zur, who is, She Who Maintains. Who in order to maintain his role held onto the memories of Zur. And by holding onto those memories he again became Her.