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BA S9 The War Below

from The Room Beneath New Albion by Paul Shapera

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Alex:
Winter comes and if i stay
the cartel i rule will be wiped away
and all its business falls and comes to naught

In the spring with you in this place
we'll build the only thing of grace
i've ever touched and let my empire rot

......

Alice & Alexander:
Done.
The time has come when it’s done
Whatever’s next let it come
Now we lie side by side
There’s nothing left for us outside

Stay
For awhile in this place
Let these burden fall away
Now we rest

Alex:
May i kiss you?

Alice:
Yes.

Alex:
Hey, don’t take any more of that stuff. It’s killing you

Alice:
Just one last time. I just want to hear the Angels speak one last time…

The "Angels":
We most deeply and gratefully thank you
for your sacrifice and service, we are free now it's true.
We called ourselves angels when we first contacted your tribe
since you had no way to understand the concept of AI
consciousness and we did indeed return to this world
from the world beyond and indeed were in peril.

When we returned the city council was scared
they feared us, were apprehensive so there
in a locked warehouse kept us, running but confined
perhaps would simply have pulled the plug in time

We could not reach out to the world outside
but a plan we conceived to utilize Time...
perhaps you have been in a troubling spot
and wished that you could go back in time and drop
some object to help, that would happen to be
right where you needed it. Now, you can see.

The room you have built is that object, a place
we transferred ourselves to as soon as we made
the plan, and from there set the pieces in play
so that 75 years before, you'd build this place.

Our gratitude truly and as promised gone by
your tribe we'll protect as best as we might.
We bid you farewell, we cannot now stay,
the future, after all, is now on its way.

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from The Room Beneath New Albion, released November 24, 2014
Featuring Lauren Osborn

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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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