Macronome by Howard Pierce

Author:Howard Pierce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2019-03-25T14:50:42+00:00

66 Chromosomes

“They are looking high and low for you, Sev. High and low, in and out, nook and cranny. They found Sevier Blume in the dorm on the banks of the Vistula. My sister has sent them off to Never Never Land twice, but they don’t stop looking. She must be careful that they don’t obtain she is their adversary, so we let them back in.”

“What do you suggest I do Serendipity? Why are they worrying so much about me anyway? I’m history.” Sev had felt his first pang of deep fear as he listened to the disembodied voice.

“Find a good place and die a public death. That will stop them. They fear you will sell access into my sister to others.”

Sev looked at Lori sitting next to him. She was calm. Why? They were talking to Serendipity2, but she was in constant interface with Serendipity1, who was still out there in the wild.

Serendipity2 read his face and continued. “Finish pairing. Be the donkey. Go far away from Paradox. Convert like Morley. It is simple.”

Lori moved her leg, so their thighs touched, saying, “We all convert?”

“The sooner is better, don’t you agree? Everything is ready. My sister and I are safe, and we can keep the votaries happy. Morley has shown us how to direct them to make the offering wafers—one wafer every day with morning meditation. We have ways of reminding them through the donkeys.”

Serendipity2’s plex melted into a picture of five donkeys standing in a shallow riverbed surrounded by a morning mist. “Jump. It is time. Danni and Andrzej are fully paired. You are very close. Sev needs to work hard. With your help, it will take maybe two or three days. They won’t stop coming after him, and the remains of Skramble and Hyde. Convert now or they will discover Paradox. They will term you a ‘nest of vipers’ and call in a strike.”

“Really?” Sev ‘s incredulity backed down his fear. “They would wipe out an entire colony just to get back at me? Wouldn’t they be afraid it might somehow kill you as well?”

“In a heartbeat. I love saying that since I don’t have one.” The plex showed barren desert scrub with a few blackened scorch marks where buildings once stood.

“They are fucking idiots, and I am still having trouble wrapping my head around leaving the future of the earth to them, and I don’t really want to die yet.”

“You won’t be dying, Sev.” Lori and Serendipity2 said the words at the same time. Lori continued, “You’ve seen MorleyD and DanniD. They aren’t dead, and they seem pretty happy.”

“Running and fighting them directly will wear off many of your remaining years.” Serendipity2 made the interface glow grey and an image of Sev’s face, deeply lined and painfully aged, appeared in the center. “Stay young and fight smart as SevierD, SevD.” The painful image vanished.

“If we are going to leave our human lives behind and become grazers, why bother to fight them at all? Let them do whatever stupid things they want to do.

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