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[cosmicwords]

I just don't know if I have much interesting to say...but... I shall try to explain...

If the calendar here is accurate, I'm from over four thousand years in the future. We've colonized space and travel between star systems is quite common. I work shipping cargo.

[cosmicwords]

Humanity left Earth a long time ago. It's an ancestral homeland but it's lost somewhere in the darkness of space.

There are no Earth-born humans anymore.

[cosmicwords]

Well...

When humanity searched for other life in the cosmos the only beings that responded were the creatures called the Gnosis. Unfortunately they are hostile.

[A thoughtful pause.]

You've been here before so you must know about the anomalies, right? They're a lot like the Gnosis.

[cosmicwords]

The Gnosis cannot be harmed unless pulled into the physical dimension somehow. Their true forms lie elsewhere.

They hate humanity but they also seem to be driven by a primal fear. It's like they want something humanity has that they lack.

It seems like the anomalies are similar to them in that way...

[cosmicwords]

The Hilbert Effect.

With it, people are able to create a sort of sensory intersection with the dimension of the Gnosis.

I'm not so sure how we'd replicate it here.

[cosmicwords]

It's unlikely but anything is possible.

[A beat.]

Oh, I mean hacking the system, not refraining from killing each other. I like to believe we are capable of pulling together when we have to.

[...For the most part. There is a small hint of guilt in his voice as he says this.]

[cosmicwords]

[A snorting giggle.]

You know, you might be one of the first people around here to say that.

[Other than Enoch, anyway.]

[cosmicwords]

[A small, sympathetic sound.]

I've learned hope by watching people fight against seemingly impossible odds. I see the same thing here.

[It's still a lesson he's getting used to after being frozen by his own hopelessness for thousands of years.]

...Might I ask, are you a storyteller yourself? You've mentioned stories a couple of times now.

[cosmicwords]

Oh, are you really?

Your works have survived until my era, even, they really are timeless.

[cosmicwords]

Well, I think everyone wishes they could have a second draft sometimes.

[cosmicwords]

[It's not a tangent chaos minds. He listens with honest interest.]

Of course the past has its merits....

Even if a person has regrets, erasing your past means erasing the events that have shaped you.