In the metaphorical eyes of the sea-minds, The thoughts I perceive as sounds, are most closely communicated as specific body movements. I swing a tendril this way I move another that way. Counts, the sense of time is lost, but we seem to be able to perceive movements as a a superposition of multiple states at the same time. Now, that isn't relevant to me, but it explains how others perceive the names I refer to them by. A mental shortcut names are now a waste of memory, additional information given to one who we perceive a the sum of our interactions.
But all the names I come up with end in Ur and Im. Because I ascribe those sounds to the simple thoughts they are. Another like me might here the same thing and interpret it to be Ek, or Ou. While my thoughts are still semi-verbal, it's an approximation of sound. At this point if someone spoke to me, even in the language I remember thinking in, and if I could percieve sound, I would not understand a thing.
But for my own name the two simplest meaningless thoughts I could come up with, I would be Ur-Im.
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I've been guiding Ur-Im, I have no better designator for this one, for as long as I could. This was potential. But while Ur-Im, could provide me with vauge details on constructions it could not provide on it's own. So it would need to go out, and it's only advantage over others of our kind in that would be it's compatibility with my perception devices. Still, he owed me some debts, and he needed to give back to the hive, or he would abstain from eating until he was no more.
So he was preparing to go out, and provide materials, He had access to the inside of my Over-pod to help craft with what he discovered, and he could give back to the hive. And fulfill his debts to me. But for now, pile more on, alas if I only had enough shards to provide him with much while he went on his way.
For he could do nothing to create more shards, and until then there could only be at most, Two who see.
While I am in stupor he would have to suffice.
All this is to be remembered until she wakes.
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I had gone out to get food for He who sees, he still refeses to be thought of as Xim. But I can make my way around some sections of the pod now. I pass by a few others on their way, but they abstain from interaction. So I go back to Zim, and Xur, Apologies, He who processes food. I hand in the membrane and he returns some food. I wonder what he uses the membrane for? Shards are a more common unit of trade but the nets have been catching a glut of food recently, so Zim's been accepting the less valuable membrane. I send him Gratitude. And I'm off.
On the way back I perceive one of the passing one's has signs of hunger, I reach out to Wim. And send Sustinance, .
Gratitude, membrane? He asks
Inquiry, role,
He who will influence giants.
A mighty role, where is Wim from?
He grants me his location and I make sure to put it down in my remembering pad, (it's just a little shard really.) Sounds like an interesting task, I shall see if it is relevant later when She awakens. I need to find another with a similar role, or discover who has the memory maps. Well, back to our Over-pod I go.
This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.
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He who processes food processes food. It is an important task for the hive. It is a place a life. It is all I need to be. Though I do hope one day to become Zur who provides food. But that is the only Name, I shall ever accept, and only when I earn it.
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Zur has a great task at hand, Zur has been gathering membrane for a while already. But first to train He who processes food sufficiently before Zur's next bout of stupor.
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He who will influence giants liked the thought Wim. A quicker communication to signify himself, he was quite unique as it is, but he who influences giants is a difficult communication to deliver to some, so Wim would be Wim. At least when Wim needed something. No one matched his expertise, except for She With Whom He Shared a Mind, he hoped they could rase another someday and was thankful for the shards they shared in their work. Otherwise they would never have the memory needed for that. And enough memory to create a communication that could be sent to explain Wim. That would be an efficient use of thought, as it would save thought otherwise needed for the great communication project.
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He who nutures found one of the missing ones, lost out from the previous batch this one had been in stupor for a long time, after some examination, He who nutures found there were more here, and that they were health. They could be raised with the next batch of young, he had not the shards to provide for them all. So for now, they would rest.
Yet one moved, waking, it would expend itself if it didn't stop, where there any here who could give it a place? And would it sustain that role or place without those to trade places with. Something needed to be done, it would starve itself on it's own.
He who nutured has not the memories or understanding to deal with this case, He thought for five counts, and when there was no answer he left. It was not his place, he could not help, he would provide the new one with a little food and he would see if there was a she who could find a place. After then, his work was done, it was time to return to stupor.
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The hive is a great and wonderful place, or at the very least, She who knows where things are thinks so. It is so great and wonderful that there is a need for She who knows where things are. She was told of the existence of a mistimed hatching, and she has to find the location and find a place where those who are waking can guide the young one. But it is fine it was her job, it is why she still had shards to spear as she who knew where things are. She traveled through the hive, checking on those who were working and those in stupor, those who needed to eat where reminded, and those producing shards where given a mega-shard describing the needs of the hive.
They where awake, they were ready, they had many different memories stored where they were, it was a perfect place for the newly hatched one, and so this is where she'll bring it.
But first I need to check if the fiber-net are up yet, it would make her role so much better if she could be made aware of where others needed her expertise, and when a structures where moved within the hive. She spent far too long trying to get around anyway she did not want to lose herself between a collection of newly moved pods and overpods. Or to lose her place when pod was moved to be united with another. She needed some way of recognising the distances she traveled and the fiber net was need so that she could start.
Nope still putting it together wrong, they really needed someone with her memory to help orginise all of this, and they needed someone who could trace the paths and spot holes. Well, she wasn't going to have the memory for all that, to He Who Sees she goes.