The Origami Dragon And Other Tales
“It is not a blessing.
My captor visits me every week. He is a member of the ruling council and looks young enough to be my great-grandson, yet was born only a decade after me. He is one of the first of his generation; I am the last of mine. Our similar age is all we have in common.
“We demand you help us stop it,” he says calmly, the same thing he says every visit.
He is always calm. Anger requires adrenaline and hormones, but my captor had these regulated when he was still a young man. His str...ong plastic heart beats thirty times per minute, every minute of every hour, every hour for eternity.
“The incidents are getting worse. We demand you undo the damage.”
He looks good for his age, but his eyes betray him. They are cold and copper, metallic substitutes that replaced his natural biology many years ago. His eyes show no passion, no understanding. They are a robot’s eyes, a golem’s eyes.
I stare out of my prison window and onwards on to flowing hills and clear blue skies. There is a single cloud on the horizon.MoreLess
My captor visits me every week. He is a member of the ruling council and looks young enough to be my great-grandson, yet was born only a decade after me. He is one of the first of his generation; I am the last of mine. Our similar age is all we have in common.
“We demand you help us stop it,” he says calmly, the same thing he says every visit.
He is always calm. Anger requires adrenaline and hormones, but my captor had these regulated when he was still a young man. His str...ong plastic heart beats thirty times per minute, every minute of every hour, every hour for eternity.
“The incidents are getting worse. We demand you undo the damage.”
He looks good for his age, but his eyes betray him. They are cold and copper, metallic substitutes that replaced his natural biology many years ago. His eyes show no passion, no understanding. They are a robot’s eyes, a golem’s eyes.
I stare out of my prison window and onwards on to flowing hills and clear blue skies. There is a single cloud on the horizon.MoreLess
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