[u.s.s.razerwolf] Envelopes
- From: Robert Butler <rwbutler@xxxxxxx>
- To: USS Razerwolf <u.s.s.razerwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:19:58 -0500
Personal Log, Ensign Tay, 0511.17
Copy To Razerwolf councilor's office
United Federation Planets. Sol. Earth. Brazil. Amazon Basin.
Manaus College.
Was little girl. Not first to leave Jungle. Nightflyers have left
jungle for stars since F'lan came. First to Manaus College. What to
do with little girl with wings? Is girl student or specimen?
Learned. Was good student. Made lights on screen dance. Wanted to
dance in sky too. Fish with fins must swim. Jaguar with legs must
run. Girl with wings must fly. Fly with parrots, bright wings
reflect on water. Fly with bats, singing in dark.
Teachers not really get heart attack. Just faking it.
Learned xenobiology. Learned ecological niches. Learned other long
words hard to say. Learned about life. Spread leaves to sun, claws
to flesh, wings to wind. Learning to make lights dance on screen one
thing. Can do. Living another thing. Elders on Jungle said Jungle
is real. Lights on screen just game aliens play. Real life is
jungle. Sun on skin. Rain in hair. Wind on wings. Blood on
talons. Not find life between stars. Between stars is empty. All
flashing lights. Canned air. Vacuum.
But Amazon is jungle too. More than one wind. Many suns make many
colors. Heavy worlds make strong wings.
Even if teachers fake heart attack.
Teachers said stay in envelope. Fly in envelope, safe. Fly out of
envelope, spin, crash. Saw envelope once. Museum. Tiny little
thing. Made of crushed tree, squashed flat, folded. How can one fly
inside envelope?
Xenobiology. Why do predators play? Razerwolf. When young cub
opens eyes, sees brother, attacks. Why? Must learn fangs. Must
learn protect throat. Must find envelope. Must find edge of
envelope. Must learn wings, fangs, claws in clear air above trees
before sharing sky with storm, tree and dragon.
Vulcan fixate on logic. Klingons focus on honor. Perhaps Nightwing
play? Perhaps Nightwing hate envelopes?
Starfleet officers fake heart attacks too. Starfleet officers love
envelopes. Cannot use joystick. Must push sparkle lights. Engines
pass shake down, but no evasives. Computer programmed to stay in
envelope. Like little girl again. Stay in envelope.
Some pilots think machines that fly have souls. Can souls be born
inside envelope?
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