Eidolon
“For her, proximity was important. Long range was ten or twenty paces of clear sight distance, or just a few paces if a wall intervened. No one there.
And she was late.
Ignorance is winning.
Somewhere between five deck and six deck the idea surfaced, and at first she wasn't sure if it was hers or not, it was so subtle, so tentative. She rarely picked up something as direct as a thought, though once or twice she had; mostly when she was young and hormonal. No one was in range though.
The idea was... persistent, so she turned it over in her aware mind, saw the signs that it was her thought, and that made it more necessary to think about it: Ignorance was winning.
On consideration, that's what this morning's time with the news round-up had showed: incontrovertible evidence that ignorance was winning. Market flux caused by the industrial committee's decision to favor blue over green this year, the newest student-style of self-lighting ring hats that fluttered in the presence of multiple low-power comm calls to the student accounts that invited conference calls, so that they might all flap together in a spotlight mocking illumination, the resurrection of the so-called Mind Safety Administration.MoreLess
And she was late.
Ignorance is winning.
Somewhere between five deck and six deck the idea surfaced, and at first she wasn't sure if it was hers or not, it was so subtle, so tentative. She rarely picked up something as direct as a thought, though once or twice she had; mostly when she was young and hormonal. No one was in range though.
The idea was... persistent, so she turned it over in her aware mind, saw the signs that it was her thought, and that made it more necessary to think about it: Ignorance was winning.
On consideration, that's what this morning's time with the news round-up had showed: incontrovertible evidence that ignorance was winning. Market flux caused by the industrial committee's decision to favor blue over green this year, the newest student-style of self-lighting ring hats that fluttered in the presence of multiple low-power comm calls to the student accounts that invited conference calls, so that they might all flap together in a spotlight mocking illumination, the resurrection of the so-called Mind Safety Administration.MoreLess
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