TEOTWAWKI
#100: The EggChild - The Dragon Lady Arrived
Are you free for a little bit?
I can be.
What’cha got?
Something very interesting.
Perhaps it’d be better if you saw it in person
Say no more
I’ll be right there
“Have a set and listen to what the boy has to say.” Shelby told Kamiko when she arrived in person. ” I think you’ll find it interesting. Go ahead son.”
Carl the dragon blurted “I think I was aborted and survived the procedure.”
Kamiko gasped.
“Shocking isn’t it?” Shelby replied grimly. “ It gets worse.”
Karl the boy leaned back in his chair. He apparently preferred to let the dragon explain.
“...much worse.” The dragon said.” Obviously I lived although it was very traumatic. Legally I was dead. An aborted fetus is just medical waste. I had no rights and I became one of the ‘twins’ of a modern day Mengele. His name is Klink. Then the trauma got worse. I’ve since read that intense trauma causes Personality Disassociate Disorder. Split personality it used to be called. I are one.”
“I are also.” Karl murmured ”the other one.”
Karl said quietly “Klink was on the Viper ship that passed by. The ship that seeded with SSmoke surveillance bugs. I watched him for a long time before then using those surveillance mites. I tried to kill him many times but the most I could do was cause him to have bad dreams of his own. I attempted to make them as bad as possible. I think that he’s insane to NOT commit suicide. Those were nasty dreams. I put my heart and soul into making them horrifying. I think he liked them. Perhaps he always has been insane.”
“Before.......” Karl continued. “Before I escaped and ran away from the Viper Lab, only one of us could be conscious at one time. “
“You hot-bunked” Shelby said in awe.
“What does ‘hot-bunk’ mean in this context?” Kamiko asked.
“Sorry, It means two occupants sharing one bed. When one of them gets out the other one gets in.” Shelby told her.
“That’s exactly right” karl/carl said in unison. “Either one of us could be awake but not both at the same time.”
“That left no time for the body to relax.” Kamiko said
“Not exactly true” Shelby told her. “Our minds need sleep, not our bodies.”
“And either Karl or Carl was always asleep” Kamiko nodded.
“Yup...as long as we didn’t over do it our body could continue indefinitely.” Karl/Carl said “If it got too tired or overexerted it would rest but one of us was always awake and on guard. “
“One day we got a break. A guard was lax. We took advantage of it and escaped the Viper-Lab” Karl whispered. “We ran away and stayed hidden.”
“We lived on the streets for years. We became ‘street smart’ like no other. We survived. One of us would sleep while the other relaxed and stood watch. We still couldn’t both go to sleep at the same time, or both be awake. We left ourselves notes. The good thing about that part was that no one could sneak up on us.” Carl said.
“ The winters were the worst.” Karl shuddered. “ and we got so tired of eating rats. One day we heard of Rock Island. It sounded like paradise. we went there. It was.”
“We lived there for months and months. It seemed suspiciously easy compared to living in RiverTown. Little did we know that the Dragon Lady was involved” Carl nodded to the Dragon Lady. She nodded back.
“One day we snitched a neuroloop.” Karl said looking at the DragonLady with a grin. “It was suspiciously easy to steal, almost like someone wanted us to take it. It was that day, talking to my first avatar, that I first spoke in real time to my brother.”
“Two Souls in one body” Kamiko said with awe.
“And one soul with no body.” Shelby said patting the Egg..”In a matter of speaking.”
“No...before you ask” Shelby said sadly “it will never ’hatch’. Not with our current understanding of the StoneStone tech that it is using.”
Kamiko looked at Elvira and raised an eyebrow.
“Sad but true.” Elvira said. “I know how to use it..some of it....but not how it works...not on a fundamental level. I can only ‘run programs’ that I have. I can’t code new ones.“
“Best we can tell the Egg will keep the child’s brain alive indefinitely” Shelby said.
“It’s brain?” Kamiko asked?
“That’s about all of her body that is left now. As you know she was born premature in a hostile environment. The fact that she survived for even a few minutes is a miracle. The nano-machines that Naomi helped Yvette deliver ‘just in time’ kept her brain alive by conjuring an ‘egg’ , for want of a better term, but her body was pretty much toast. It’s just about withered away now.” Shelby said.
“And before you ask” he continued. “Yes, I died and was revived by BloodNanites, the same as Chad and Joshua. One of many difference is, however, that we had LIVED in a body before we died. Not so the EggChild, she had just been prematurely born. Another item of note is that you’ll notice that I have no legs?”
Kamiko nodded.
“The nano-machines didn’t replace them. We’re not sure why.” Shelby told her.
“The egg-child’s whole body was wasted” Kamiko nodded.
“Yup...you understand.” Shelby said “as best as any of us do at any rate.”
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#99:The EggChild.…
The First Episode was
# 1 : Prologue…
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Well, some of the mystery surrounding Carl and Karl, the dissociated personality disorder, has just been revealed, apart from his hatred of Klink ... now the brain and the egg ... problems with the knowledge of the SoulStone technology that allow the egg to hatch successfully ... It would seem that they should hold a meeting to brainstorm, which allows them to draw a strategy to get the baby or baby's brain out of the egg.
Poor Carl, one body, two brains, one soul. So is he going to end up, one body, two souls, and three brains? That would be like pretty hard on the poor guy. Or this ties back the the question about abortions. Humm, gonna take a little bit to digest this one I think.
He only has One brain.
He's got a split personality.
Two souls one body.(carl/karl)
The eggchild (foxy) don't have nobody....not really.
One mind/soul....nobody...just an avatar.
Okay, making a little bit of sense now, I was just seeing split personalities as two brains I guess, but occupying the same space. So all they need to do is find one of those extremely rare "Holoprosencephaly" Babies, and then foxy can have a body. Or build one out of Ssmoke.
not likely a microencephaltic newborn would survive in that environment..
actually they don't survive very long anyway...in intensive care.'
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