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Sunlight is the only weather phenomenon I didn’t feel compelled to know personally. I still wanted to know everything about it, like everything else. I just never wanted to experience it for myself. I wanted to know everything about it and then [[never let it hurt me]]. But photokeratitis was the least of my problems, because I could close my eyes.
I know about it for the express purpose of [[knowing why it would hurt me]]
It comes in a torrent usually accompanied by other processes. The sun continuously spits out ionized particles because of weak spots in its magnetic field. Accelerated and energetic and violent, emerging from the coronal holes. [[That will probably never hurt me either.]]
It just reminds me of <<linkreplace "you">><<linkreplace "her">>Taiaca<</linkreplace>><</linkreplace>>
[[>]]She pulled on my necklace gently until she found my sigil. [[She wasn’t wearing hers]].<span class="taiaca">[[“I can electroform it for you, you know.”]]</span>I took her hand that held the charm. <span class="cierus">[[“It’s o°kay.”]]</span><span class="taiaca">[[“It’s not hard,”]]</span> she said. <span class="taiaca">"I practiced on Voxade's rings."</span><span class="cierus">[[“Did yo°u do° it to° yo°ur necklace?”]]</span><span class="taiaca">[["I'll do it if you let me do yours."]]</span>Taiaca could have this continuous, soft way of speaking, smooth without breaking between words. It flows like [[solar wind]]. It sounds like something is stirring underneath that could hurt you if you aren’t careful. <<cycle "$sun" autoselect>><<option "Solar flare">><<option "Radiation storm">><<option "Mass ejection">><</cycle>>, it’s always up to you if the [[hurtful]] part comes out.
<span class="taiaca">[["And then we could match again."]]</span>Taiaca’s actual voice refracted through my discarnate introspection about her voice but it was as [[smooth]] as ever.I thought, I could put it behind me. I didn’t feel so strongly about imbuing meaning into [[that day]].
I thought, that day could just be <<linkreplace "for me">>for Taiaca<</linkreplace>>
No point in catastrophizing about things that will never happen to me. I never have to be anywhere near [[the sun]] if I don’t want to be. Someone who knows a little bit more about it and me would say I just wanted to know the science behind it.
And I do, but it’s something more than that. Something about how unreachable it is. I’ve always had something for processes you can’t see or at least can’t see unless you look closer. Thermodynamics will change and happen forever even when no one is watching and it doesn’t need anyone to know about it or any acknowledgement but I still want to know. Acknowledging it is useless anyway, isn't it? Weather is a chaotic system that you can measure and model and still get all that completely wrong. It's bigger than all of us. We just... solipsistically... recontextualize it around us as far as not getting sunburned. Or [[whatever]]...
[[Today]][[Right now]][[I fell asleep and had dreams all morning about you understanding]]
When I have dreams like that, it always takes me forever to get your attention. It takes the whole dream and it’s exhilarating and exhausting. I wake up, I fall back asleep to be back in your hive again. The sunlight the beach gets is nothing compared to your desert, I can’t leave for some reason, and you don’t want me to be there. I brought something I won’t be able to transport home, I have to leave it, I don’t know if I’ll see it again. [[But I only ever wanted to talk to you.]]
[[And really, what else was there to worry about?]][[Heat death?]][[When the sun just isn't there anymore?]]Well, that's not really how things work either. That won't happen for a long time. It doesn't just go away. It's not about energy rapidly changing either, it just [[can't change at all.]]It burns everything else to death first too. [[That's how that one works.]]But maybe there was a way for me to stay alive while I found [[something sunlight couldn't reach]].[[What kind of a place is that?]][[Aphotic zone?]][[I thought about it for a long time]]And I [[take the bathyscaphe all the way down until I can’t see anything if I wanted to]]~satellitesAdvisory [SA] began trolling seawatersFluidity [SF]~
<span class="cierus">SA: hey</span>
<span class="marani">SF: .> Hey.</span>