The First Cylinder by Joseph Dougherty
Author:Joseph Dougherty [Dougherty, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia Press
Published: 2023-07-15T00:00:00+00:00
Ppp looked at me and I looked at Ppp. We didnât say anything. For a long time there was nothing but the sounds of the tripod mechanism, walking us across the Earth.
Ppp turned toward the quartz and so did I.
The dark-skinned and golden-eyed show up in your dreams sometimes. Youâre supposed to file a report when they do. No one ever does.
âTheyâre in the scrolls,â Ppp said without looking at me. âThe ones with the golden eyes. At least they used to be. They were gone the last time I looked for them. In the scrolls.â
âThey revise the scrolls, you know that,â I reminded him.
âI wonder about that, too,â he said and reached in front of him and made a cross on the inside of the quartz with the tip of his dominant tentacle. âIf the scrolls are ancient documents, the underpinning of Martian society, how can they go back in and change them? And who decides what gets changed?â
âI donât know,â I said, trying to make it sound like âI donât care.â
âBut they used to be in there. The ones with the golden eyes.â
âSo what if they were? Now theyâre gone because nobody believes in them anymore. Thatâs why they took them out.â
âIf they never existed, how come they show up in our dreams?â
I didnât want to answer him. Mostly because I didnât like him saying âour dreams.â As if he knew I dreamed of them, too. As if dreaming about the dark-skinned ones with golden eyes was something everybody did at some point. Besides, itâs nobodyâs business what I dream about.
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