The Architect of Aeons
“The Escape of the Mind A.D. 11322 Ximen del Azarchel, weightless in the void, with stars beyond his feet and the rainbow of shattered ice and asteroids beyond his head, was in a lingering and quiet ecstasy.
It had been so long, so very long, since he had been happy, even he could not recall it. Dimly he recalled some nameday as a child, perhaps four years of age, when his mother had brought him a palm cake stolen from her rich mistress’s table (or, more likely, her recycle bucket), lit with the smallest dollop of bioluminescent sugar for its candle, a cake too beautiful to eat and too delicious to wait to eat. Four? More likely three. He was a precocious child, and by four years, he surely would have been aware of the cruelty of his life, of the scorn of his peers, who called him a monster, of the weakness of his sickly mother, forced to clean the houses of petty bourgeoisie upstarts all the while dying of a disease his father’s wealth could have cured.
And after that? A life of crime..., wretchedness, and starvation, eating garbage and stealing shoes from any smaller children with large feet.MoreLess
It had been so long, so very long, since he had been happy, even he could not recall it. Dimly he recalled some nameday as a child, perhaps four years of age, when his mother had brought him a palm cake stolen from her rich mistress’s table (or, more likely, her recycle bucket), lit with the smallest dollop of bioluminescent sugar for its candle, a cake too beautiful to eat and too delicious to wait to eat. Four? More likely three. He was a precocious child, and by four years, he surely would have been aware of the cruelty of his life, of the scorn of his peers, who called him a monster, of the weakness of his sickly mother, forced to clean the houses of petty bourgeoisie upstarts all the while dying of a disease his father’s wealth could have cured.
And after that? A life of crime..., wretchedness, and starvation, eating garbage and stealing shoes from any smaller children with large feet.MoreLess
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