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2026-02-26
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2026-06-17
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Postscript to a Dead Prime

Summary:

Through a series of personal logs, Orion tries to make sense of D-16's sudden changes.

Chapter 1: Prelude

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

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blue,
always blue.
the kind that pools
and does not drain.

You always had a choice.

weight in hands that are too large for tenderness,
too scarred for apology.
a voice going thin at the edges,
a spark guttering out
like the last light in a dead city.

You always had a choice.

static.
screen tear.
the battlefield folding inward
like a document corrupted mid-save.

You always had a choice.

the way a name sounds
when spoken by someone
who does not yet know
what it will become.

You always had a choice.

this is the annotation
that comes after all of that;
messy, late.

◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️

words that cannot be unsaid
but might,
if the timing holds,
be undone.

 

 

LOG ENTRY: INCOMPLETE
TIMESTAMP: ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️
AUTHOR:◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️
STATUS: REBOOTING

Notes:

how original, another time travel fix it