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The Lost Fairy, A Fairypunktale (Fp3)

by Paul Shapera

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Han Mi: Once upon a time there was a little fairy. She was frantically fleeing the smoking ruins of her decimated home, the city of Avalon which had been utterly destroyed by the Cascadian military. The only survivor, she was pursued by an elite unit of highly trained soldiers bent on her extermination. Fairy: The men always come With fire and guns And anger and spite blazing out of,their eyes like a mad deadly sun And In their wake they leave ruin and flames and songs written in blood They leave in their wake flames and ruin and rage and songs made of blood My sisters so sweet They fell at my feet Im all that is left, its just me out of breath and still the men come My sisters and i we would laugh and we’d fly plotting mischief and secrets and jests Games and pretend, giggling girls summer friends, afternoons we thought never would end, Our Songs and our rhymes we were children and i never dreamed theres a day theyd not be Beside me but yet now they’re all back there dead, and the men are now coming for me The men here they come With death and their guns And now in their path they leave bodies and wrath and this last deadly hunt I flee and i run But still the men come And when they arrive with their fire then my race’s race will be run My city i saw, oh my sweet Avalon, there it burned in infernos of flame They swept in there then, the great bombs of the men, and all that i loved was ablaze My people are dead i am all that is left i have seen now the fires of hell And burned in my eyes here before i will die is the sight when my dear city fell ... The men always come With fire and guns And anger and spite blazing out of their eyes like a mad, deadly sun There's nowhere to run I'm lost and i'm done But soon ends my grief, that's the mercy for me from the men who now come
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Jakob: i stood there shaking, staring, summer camp at 8 years old when they told me that my folks weren't coming back As i started feeling sick they said the city where we lived had all been wiped away right off the map Victoria was gone and was replaced by Avalon and then they talked of fairies but i didn't hear the gist of it i know is that i wasn't going home In this world id be all alone from here Jesse: And here with me you will never be, you will never be alone and here with me you will never be, you will never be alone soon afterwards the one thing that would save me came along the voice inside my head that kept me company Jesse: "i'm the brother you never knew, i was consumed with the womb and we'll make it through together you and me" Jakob: he helped me through my grief, we weren't alone then him and me "our left arm i control and there's a pact” Jakob: one day we would be strong and we'd avenge all that we'd lost and upon the fairies we’d enact our wrath Jesse: And here with me you will never be, you will never be alone and here with me you will never be, you will never be alone Sometimes there is sadness Sometimes there is rage Sometimes they press down on you And sometimes you can break So i feel al the sadness My brother feels the rage And Each our burden carries Across the long hard days Jakob: so a soldier we became moving right up through the ranks a Cascadian elite team we then joined and we waited for the day we declare war upon the fae and every fairy inside Avalon destroy But our job is not yet done for there is still this last, lone one that runs but hot upon its trail we hunt and so we will never rest until we see it done and dead and avenge the memory of our dad and mum Jesse: And here with me you will never be, you will never be alone and here with me you will never be, you will never be alone
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Han Mi: Jakob Jansson and his unit, the Cascadian Hellhounds, pursued the little fairy relentlessly as she fled blindly and aimlessly, lost in an alien, human world, until at last, cornered and wounded, she gave up. Fairy: This is how my story ends Without warning, without sense So this is how my story ends Nothing solved just all loose ends Without love, without a friend All alone out here at worlds end So this is how my story ends No,one mourns me when im dead Theres no eulogies instead It cold and mean with no tears shed So this is how my story ends With no clever last words said Without love, without a friend All alone out here at worlds end Jane: Take my hand and when you run, we’ll run together Take my hand and when you go, we’ll go down together Take me hand and when we hide, we’ll hide together Take my hand if you fall, we’ll fall down together The race we run is frightening, and at our backs they’re biting The hellhounds hunt and never slow The race we run is frightening, and for our lives we’re fighting All along the blood stained road The race we run is frightening, dizzying and blinding The grief that pulls us down below The race we run is frightening, And guns that flash like lightening So hold on tight and dont let go Fairy: Why have you come the men with guns are hunting in a race of death Jane: I’ve come to find the fairies from poor avalon that might be left Others of your kind wait in a city that lies days away And if i die it will not be before i get you there and safe Fairy: I’m tired and despair my race is run i wish to lay and die Jane: I’ve felt like that and run that race once upon another time And once upon that time another saved me who i cannot pay But now i can atone and i’m prepared to die to keep you safe Jakob: The hellhounds come a riding We bite like lightening and The hellhound come a riding The hellhounds come a riding The sinners crying for The hellhounds come a riding Jane: The race we run is frightening, and at our backs they’re biting The hellhounds hunt and never slow The race we run is frightening, and for our lives we’re fighting All along the blood stained road The race we run is frightening, dizzying and blinding The grief that pulls us down below The race we run is frightening, And guns that flash like lightening So hold on tight and dont let go Han Mi: The tech company Ablegeist held yearly parties that were the darling of the upper class business and social world for the city of Morefold. This year they had renovated a large mansion and there the rich and famous from across the continent had come to drink, network, and gossip, unaware they were straight in the path of jane, the fairy and the deadly unit hot on their trail. Jane: The race we run is frightening, and at our backs they’re biting The hellhounds hunt and never slow The race we run is frightening, and for our lives we’re fighting All along the blood stained road The race we run is frightening, dizzying and blinding The grief that pulls us down below The race we run is frightening, And guns that flash like lightening So hold on tight and dont let go Han Mi: They smashed through the mansion, Jane and the little fairy desperately fleeing, knocking over everything in their way and the unit blasted their way through the party, destroying everything around them. They fled into the cellar and fortunately just after they closed the door, an old man leaned casually against it and shrugged when Jakob appeared moments later and asked which way they had gone. . Jane and the Fairy hide from Jakob. Fortunately Jakob’s unit didn’t think to check the cellar Jakob: Check the cellar! Han: Wait... what? Jakob’s unit, having lost Jane, leaves the party (Obnoxious noise begins) Jakob: I bet my left nut they’re in the cellar. I can feel it. Come on, downstairs. Weapons up. Han: They don’t go down to the cellar Jakob: Watch your step. Stay alert Han: What’s that sound? Raven: The narrative’s tearing Lloyd: You need to stop. It’s not working. You’re going to break the narrative. You can’t always just strong arm your way through. Jakob: I’ve got two heat signatures, southwest corner. Han: Golly darn it, what do i do? Lloyd: You have a problem. The narrative does not want Jane safe. Finesse. Finesse. Han: With the men approaching, Jane spies a trapdoor leading to ancient tunnels beneath the mansion. Lloyd: Really? Tunnels again? Han: Hush. Im under pressure and i cant think of anything else. Jane and the fairy quickly throw open the trapdoor and scramble down. Lloyd: We did tunnels last time Raven: The dwarves. Lloyd: The dwarves? Raven: The dwarves are interesting. If Jane heads to the dwarves, the narrative will keep her safe until at least then, because it’s an interesting destination. You’re doing fine. Han: Thanks. What if Jane doesn't go to the dwarves? Lloyd: All right. Not bad. Test it out and see if you can’t nudge her there. Han: The tunnels under the mansion head off in a maze of directions. With no time to think, on a whim, Jane chooses a series of tunnels leading ever down, down... Raven: Down past the party and the countryside of the waking lands Han: Oh, that’s nice. Down past the party and the countryside of the waking lands, towards the dwarves far below.
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Ocn Hhtjm 05:18
Han Mi: Meanwhile, back in New Albion The Mayor begrudgingly prepared to journey to the park, into the borders of Xandoria. The Cascadian Alliance, having decimated Avalon, turned their attention to the only other place housing a substantial fairy polulation: New Albion. It was there the massive war machine was heading. Xandoria was sealed off, and had recently stopped all communication. Baffling rumors told strange, confusing stories of what was happening in there. Undetterred, the Mayor set off. The Mayor: Its six clock in the morning dont even bother asking me if i slept Id rather shoot myself then do what im doing instead, which is walk into the park by myself I gotta bottle of meds for my ulcer, i drink about seven a day In the park where i go, they all hate me you know, and its the place where my son ran away You dont cry for mercy You dont cry for help You dont cry cause in this world you got You gotta get it done yourself Xandoria they say i should call them, i tried my best to make friends you know They suggested i do things rather shocking and crude so all i did was leave them alone But One night i came home early, i walked into the door around 10 And my son wasn't home, he just left me a note, he said he went into the park to live I spend my day with dogs and jackals, politics is always the same Shaking hands making pacts, with knives held round our backs, We all smile as we push in the blade So even if Xandoria hates me, i gotta get in there right away Cascadia says, they want the fairies all dead And their military’s coming our way In Xandoria now Strange things abound No one who goes in there ever comes out The spies that i've sent They don't make much sense They warn that the fabric of nature’s unwound Like or not war is coming, their bringing on the fires of hell And we’re all on their sights, we band together or die So i gotta go convince them to help
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Shiejmdh 04:12
Han Mi: Xandoria had for some time been unresponsive to outside inquiries. Strange and perplexing rumors circulated about bizarre things that were happening inside. The few reports that had emerged made no sense, speaking of indescribable changes occuring to both the denizens and nature itself. Xandorians: Philosophers and science analysts and priests Have argued and debated and may not agree When Separating nature, magic and technology Where the line may be, the line may be Negation and obliteration of that line Is our credo, manifesto, to which we’re resigned We are changing into something man has never seen We are heading towards the singularity . We’re tinkering with things that some might cause some unease We’re refurbishing some physics and biology Renovating bits of nature and theres some who see Blasphemy, a bit of blasphemy A blowtorch to the fabric of reality Using nature, magic, science and technology We are changing into something man has never seen The singularity, the Singularity Han Mi: Disturbed and uneasy, the Mayor never the less pressed on, until she finally arrived for council with the surreal colony’s current leader, the forgotten meme.
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Ocn Hnhn 03:20
The Meme: When my love, when she lay there hurt and gasping When my love, when her last breaths brushed my ears and silence lay And yet i still lay there beside her For hours and i cried there The barren rains of ash were on their way When my love, when her body then was empty And i rose, and i crawled into the tree where i would stay As day and weeks droned on before me I lay not even moving The barren rains of ash consumed the day The lost sometimes stare with a look in their glare An emptyness few can perceive I know that abyss but the abyss cant know this All that my love meant to me Every day, my daughter would come join me Every day, she would leave a flower underneath my wake Until the day i stepped outside to go and sit beside her The rains of ash were starting then to fade
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Meme: I smell a dead and rotting swine Oh look the mayors come, but why You are not welcome here Mayor: I know I have to, please, you must be told Everything i always do Is for the city’s common good Meme: My wife was from this city too Mayor: We havent time, a war it brews Both: Scars and menace The dance of dark vendettas The waltz of tears and knives, the dark ballet ... Meme: You cannot fathom what we do The singularity comes soon Mayor: There is no soon i’m trying to say Cascadia is on its way Avalon in wreckage lies A total fairy genocide And now their army this way walks Please, i ask, can we just talk Both: Scars and menace The dance of dark vendettas The waltz of tears and knives, the dark ballet Meme: So we must deal with the devil When the apocalypse arrives We have all spoken and agreed that We will fight then by your side Han Mi: And so Xandoria and New Albion braced themselves as the massive Cascadian war machine swiftly approached
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Ocn Erhmqnn 03:35
Han Mi: Exhausted and frightened, Jane and the little fairy reached a strange place considered by some myths to be the center of the world: the realm of the Dwarves. The Dwarves: The wheel we turn as the world it yearns And souls fall and ascend Where there a wheel there are dwarves like steel To Keep it moving as our duty to attend You’ve heard it said that elysiums no end That the souls there one day leave And as they adjourn they’ll converge and merge Until millions make a god you see These gods so called archetypes one and all As above reflects below But though this is so there are things you donot know Why we turn these great wheels so Up above we know there was trouble long ago The chaostrophy swept forth And the gods they died, only few were left alive And the macrocosm almost broke and tore A well was formed, leading down to this world And a god threw themself down And their shattered form became us, the dwarves, And we built the wheels in worlds underground They stabilize this plane of space and time Which teeters on the edge And new pieces churn, converge and merge to restore the realms now wrecked Where these wheels exist, evolution moves brisk And More potentials bred But also as it turns, some post humans will emerge To replace the gods long dead There are tensions great, the future must be on its way There are stories that must wake So we greet you thus, the Arthur comes to visit us And we wish you well upon your way
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Rhm 10:10
Han Mi: Jane and the fairy were shown a tunnel leading up and away, towards the city of New Albion, where the attack by the Cascadian Alliance was beginning. Climbing out of the tunnels... Fairy: The race we run is fighting, dizzy and exciting the bonnies bump and never bow... Jane: Well you’re in a good mood Fairy: I love the dwarves! More dwarves! Jane: It’s nice to see you smile. You have a wonderful smile. Fairy: You’re sweet Miss. I thought humans were all sucky til i met you. Oh, i think we’re here Han: Jane and the fairy emerged from a tunnel near the New Albion waterfront... Jakob: The Hellhounds come a riding, we strike like lightning and the race we run is frightening Han: Dammit! Jane: Dammit! How did they find us? Han: How did they find them? Lloyd: Probably a fae aura tracking mechanism Raven: Convenient plot device. Does it matter? Jane: My city! They’re attacking my city! Fairy: Oh Miss, i'm so sorry. What do we do? Jane: We need to get to Xandoria and hope the Singularity is still on schedule Fairy: Where are my people? Jane: They’ll be there Lloyd: Stay calm. Adapt. Finesse. Han: Fortunately they don't see the two girls. Jakob: There they are! Han: Oh come on! They fire at the pair, one of the blasts piercing Jane’s wings... no, it doesn’t pierce Jane’s wing (noise begins), okay! never mind... uhm, ok, so Jane and the fairy manage to flee anyway... Jakob: they’re hurt! We’ve got em. Han: What do i do? Lloyd: Okay, stop. Don't contradict the narrative, if you break it all is for naught. Creative solutions. Creative solutions. Han: Circles never stop themselves All you chase and all you’ve held All the pain that you have known The time has come to let it go Jakob: Finish them! Han: Dammit! Raven: It’s not like worked last time either Lloyd: Don’t panic. Raven: Allow me. The city is alight with bombs and fighting. A rogue explosive flies in out of nowhere, detonating close by the shocked unit. Jane and the fairy, covered by ash and debris escape into the smoke. Han: The city is alight with bombs and fighting. A rogue explosive flies in out of nowhere, detonating close by the shocked unit. Jane and the fairy, covered by ash and debris escape into the smoke. Thank you. Raven: I will always have your back when you need it. No matter my past sins and personal... challenges, i can and be will someone supportive and loving to you. Han: Now? You’re going to do this now? Lloyd: You’re losing the narrative. Get it back before it’s out of your grasp. Han: They all run frantically through the exploding chaos towards the park ..... The two sides throw everything they have at one another. The waves of attack keep coming and New Albion starts to buckle under the savage invasion. As a new wave of invaders breech the city’s defenses, the Mayor picks up a grenade launcher and steps out to meet them. And so the mayor dies protecting the city she loves. The Mayor: You always go down fighting You gotta show some grit You gotta hold your ground You gotta go down with the ship You don’t cry for mercy You don’t play the gimp It’s a world of bastards And you never ever let them win You don’t beg and cower You don’t cry for help It’s up to you, girls, To send them straight to hell
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Ejfken Hmdh 06:09
Han Mi: With her wings damaged and unable to run further, Jane and the fairy take shelter inside a storefront, Marcus’ Mattresses. Knowing they are cornered, Jane prepares for her last stand. Last stand? Jakob’s unit bursts in and Jane unloads on them, killing two. Jakob flies into a blood rage and.... shoots Jane, then proceeds to, oh god i can’t do this, proceeds to beat her bloody with… no… i can’t do this… Okay, wait.. it is then his brother, the alternate inside his head, stops him Jesse: To fill the hole where all the darkness comes The pain and sorrow we could not out run The bitter road and all that we have done In the end what have we become They’re children, look at them they’re both so young What truly now have either of them done Are we the monster that in cruelty comes In the end now what have we become Jakob: The world is often cruel and there are monsters who will come And they will burn the world and all in it you love The strong then fueld by rage are all that stands there in their way And to stop them this is what we have become . Jesse: A road of bitter tears we both have run And never questioned that which we have done To fill the hole where all the darkness comes In the end what have we now become Jakob: I’ve never lost or strayed from all the vows that we both made I’m the one who faces beasts when others run Duty’s more than just a word and i’ve kept true and never swerved And i’ve stood firm against the darkness when it comes Jesse: You are not the prime, i kniw think you are but i Was the one who was there back it began It was you who came along to take away the rage When i couldnt cope, could barely even stand Jakob: i lived a life of rage and war it was the burden that i bore it was the burden that i bore it was the burden that i bore i lived a life of rage and war it was the burden that i bore it was the burden that i bore it was the burden that i bore And you swore to me i would never be i would never be alone we swore we'd fight, we would make it right, and i cannot let this go i will see this through if its the last i do we will not concede or stray i will never stop, i'll cut my own arm off i will bury you this day
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Han Mi: In a mad rage Jakob chops off his left arm. Utterly consumed by anger he... no, please.... he assaults Jane, brutally beating.... i can’t… im sorry, i can’t do this Fairy: Its okay if its over, it was worth this stolen time To see there's more than darkness, to see that there's still light I would have died despairing, would have died with faith all done Im glad i met you miss, now i can die still feeling love Now i know that even though the monsters sometimes win Sometimes rule and paint the world blood and black and pain and sin Behind them all there's magic deeper than they can attack And when the darkness passes all the magic will come back Jane: At last i understand why sometimes everything you give At last i understand why Xander did the thing he did At last i understand sometimes for love you sacrifice And the hardest to forgive can be yourself but you must try One day you will wake, and darkness it is falling And cruelty rises up to have its day Some will hide and cry, and leave the girl whose dying Some will lie, deny, rely on others then to guide them And they’ll hide away, turn their gaze, cower deep inside They’ll weep and close their eyes, hope and sigh, pray that they don't die And some sacrifice anyway Some sacrifice it all away Ah the fallen and the burdened and the wreaths upon their grave Now its over, i hope the world will be a better place You try and try and try the best you can you try until you die You try the best you can You try and try and try the best you can you try until you die You try the best you can
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Dionmqniodji 06:24
Han Mi: NO. NO!!!! NO!!!! Not again! I can’t do this again! I can’t… Raven: But this is what’s happening, you can’t just give up on her! Lloyd: Han. We’ve lost control of the narrative and now it is spiraling into darkness. You turning your back will not stop this from happening. If you have any last ditch Hail Marys, anything at all, now is the time. Raven: You are creative. You are competent. You are her last hope and you CAN do this. Think outside the box. Han: Jakob stops as a figure emerges slowly from the shadows. You will leave her alone, you will go you will step down or i swear that you will know such sorrow, grief you cant believe screams of anguish and of strife and in your torment and in tears you'll scream and cry to end your life, i’m Han Mi, i you will beg me then to die beg me cease, unholy things pain and woe you will know if you do not let her go You cannot have her. You cannot take this one. You cannot have her. She is all i love. You cannot have her. You cannot take this one. You cannot have her. She is all i love. (Slicing sound and Jakob gurgling) Jane: Who ARE you? Han: You knew me once some time ago Another life, a different show A time when we were lost within a dream I loved you then more than you knew And even now i still do too I never stopped, though you were lost to me I failed you then and this i swear The guilt is more than i can bear And so i’ve tried to make something for you A better life that you can live Adventures, love and tales to spin I'm sorry if this all makes you confused You likely wont see me again A world for you is beckoning Your story will be beautiful to tell But always know that this is true Someone far out there loves you Loves you more than she loves life itself You’ll run to a world full of wonder and light With love and with laughter and friends at your side With magic and miracles, worlds brand new And maybe one day, a lover or two... The light died upon my pale life But it rose with you here today I did this for you The best i could do... Everything’s going to be fine. You’ve done a great job. You’re almost home free. Take Symbel and get to Xandoria. The Singularity is almost here. Just... you are going to live a long and wonderful life and you are loved so very much. Now go. Hurry.
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Han Mi: And so Jane and Symbel finally cross the breech, back into Xandoria Fairy: It’s horrible here! Are your people even still…. Jane: There! It’s okay, we’ve reached the park. Meme: Jane! You’re safe! Hurry, we’re leaving. Han Mi: And so Jane and the fairy enter Xandoria, amidst the war and chaos. The singularity has come. The experiment Xandoria has committed itself to has reached fruition. As havoc rages in the besieged city around them, slowly all involved stop fighting to gape in wonder at the sight before them. Xandoria rises into the air. It has become a bioship, an imposssible, organic vessel; flesh, technology and nature smeared together in undescribable new formations, people and nature part of the very ship itself. It continues to rise, away from the war torn city, up into the sky, leaving the troubled world behind it, heading into the vast and wondrous cosmos before it. Raven: Well done everyone! I didn’t think we were going to upll that off. I thought that was going to be another Cambridge. Lloyd: Don’t remind me. You know, i did always say i would see that city burn before it was all through. In any case, i shall see you two later. Raven: Not wasting any time, huh Lloyd: I am going to get me a real body. At long last… Raven: Want to grab some carrot cake, dear? I know a lovely place in a little steampunk narrative not far from here. Han: Sure, just, give me a half hour to… i just need to get myself together. Raven: As you wish, dear.
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Han: i dream of a summer where days never end and we never grew up, and you never left and you come by calling one morning, you're so excited and say hey let's put on a show lets get our friends and we'll gather them close we'll pick out some songs here that everyone knows make us some costumes with laces and bows let's get together and put on a show we gather together round noon every day and we learn all our songs and the things we will say it's a tale full of drama and singing and jokes and everyone comes to get swept by our show lets get our friends and we'll gather them close we'll pick out some songs here that everyone knows make us some costumes with laces and bows let's get together and put on a show the house where you lived is now empty and done i stop by and call you but you never come i wish i had told you if i'd had the sense how much i love you, how much you meant i miss all the songs and the times we were close i miss all our friends but i miss you the most i hope that you're happy, i hope that you go out there and give em one hell of a show lets get our friends and we'll gather them close we'll pick out some songs here that everyone knows make us some costumes with laces and bows let's get together and put on a show

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The third and final installment of The Fairypunk Trilogy as we continue our strange saga of the fabled city of New Albion.

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released August 26, 2019

Featuring:

Liel Bar-Z as Jane
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Lauren Osborn as Symbel the Fairy
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Oliver Marsh as Jakob and Jesse Jansson
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Vivian Moonic as The Mayor
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Kerttu Aarnipuu as The Meme
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Psyche Chimera as Han Mi
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Guitar solo on track 10 by Ivan Vukadinovic

Cover by Shibara
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Cama’s attempt to commune with higher beings failed; she only found Decadent Dottie. Together they roamed, indulging in dangerous forms of psycho-neural self-exploration which Cama hoped would present the key to her people’s further evolution. It only led to her destroying her people so that one of their pets could evolve. She sat in her former civilization's rubble and listened to Paul Shapera. ... more

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