8 Jan 0420
'I
guess I'm going to die someday......
'
After a hot summer day back in Pacific, the fog would
creep over the hills. You could see the fog just over the top. I always
thought it looked like breakers crashing over the ridge, like the end of
the world......'
-Saratoga May James
the sea is dark with somber sheen
a bird of white is borne between
the muted wave and mounted cloud
the End has come to all the proud
Jenny?
Why aren't you in bed? Jenny?
Jenny?
Mary, you should be asleep.
Let me help her. We'll stay in the dayroom.
Sit down.
Oh, girl, I don't know what you saw, but if I can help-
I don't want to talk about it.
Okay.
You don't understand.
I don't have to.
It's all my fault. I did it.
I-do you think the world will be destroyed?
Someday.
When Sol goes off the main sequence it'll consume the inner planets. Or
an asteroid could blow off the biosphere. Or a nearby blue-white giant
could detonate.
It won't be like that.
Oh?
So that's what you dreamed.
You don't know me. I'm an evil person. I will destroy the world.
What did you see?
The sky was filled with mists and clouds. I was looking down on it,
where I could see the waves through breaks in the fog. I knew the land
was gone, beneath the oceans. And everybody was dead but me.
A shining white bird was gliding back and forth, near then far. Finally
flew past me and whisperred for my ears, this was my doing, that I had
destroyed the world.
And it told me I would be left there. Alone. Forever.
Oh, Jenny, Jenny, Jenny....
Look, Jenny. The sky is turning blue. It'll be dawn soon.
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