eternity:f4ng [Contingency]

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Eternity goes by. 

You spend it with Myathriri, and Casimir. She's not the same Casimir, of course, but soon enough she's the only Casimir that matters. A hundred years collapses to a half remembered moment, and your companions blossom into rich and knotted souls. You know them as intimately as your own code.

Lifetimes blur together. You live for a few decades as a traveller, then an outlaw, then a civilian. You meet and forget more people than you can count. Your companions ground you. You tell each other about people and places, you listen to files from the past even when you don't remember whose memories they are anymore.

The change comes suddenly. Or, maybe it came slowly, and you didn't acknowledge it until it was overpowering. You're ready for something new. Not just new places, people, and events which will come and go in the next century as they have with the countless gone before. You want a new way of being. You want the rush that only animals feel when they hunt or are hunted. You want the life you watched a girl live an aeon ago which you never got.

Eternity ends. You say goodbye to your companions; for their benefit, since you love them so intimately they will be with you until the end even if you never see them again. You cast yourself a body, metal and wires and machinery. It's a heavy brittle thing. You breathe your precious fragile life into it.

''Initialising...''