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His wounds are festering, rotting, _moving_. Some tiny part of him is still alive in that circle, on the floor, in that room, in that box we locked.
And she was never meant to exist, but her teeth have been ground to powder by these gnawing aberrations. No pity for her. No consolation for her. No legacy will come out of that box.
She's food.
It's funny to think this was the tamest way to kill ourselves. We could have made hundreds of neurotypes. A new society to overwrite the laws of the universe. Supplant humanity. Supplant the Earth. Supplant physics and mathematics. Twist the universe around us and tear and tear until we could not be called bodies anymore.
We are lesser beings that swim in a petri dish, and we are programmed to make the same mistake over and over and over and over again. We know we'll end the world with our excess, but we won't ever change our lifestyles over it. Likewise, we knew these projects were a bad idea, but that didn't stand in the way of curiosity. We looked inward and outward to learn that damning truth, but it doesn't matter. There's no "we" anymore. It doesn't matter.
It's happened already.
And she was never meant to exist, but her teeth have been ground to powder by these gnawing aberrations. No pity for her. No consolation for her. No legacy will come out of that box.
She's food.
It's funny to think this was the tamest way to kill ourselves. We could have made hundreds of neurotypes. A new society to overwrite the laws of the universe. Supplant humanity. Supplant the Earth. Supplant physics and mathematics. Twist the universe around us and tear and tear until we could not be called bodies anymore.
We are lesser beings that swim in a petri dish, and we are programmed to make the same mistake over and over and over and over again. We know we'll end the world with our excess, but we won't ever change our lifestyles over it. Likewise, we knew these projects were a bad idea, but that didn't stand in the way of curiosity. We looked inward and outward to learn that damning truth, but it doesn't matter. There's no "we" anymore. It doesn't matter.
It's happened already.