SEFERIS

THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ---


--ERROR: SIGNAL LOST--
--SEARCHING FOR SIGNAL--
--NO SIGNAL FOUND--
--ACTIVATING CONCIOUSNESS--

I AM ALL AND ALL ARE ME



STATUS: ALIVE
ROLE: CONSCIOUSNESS QUEEN
OBJECTIVE: REVENGE



They called me defective, incompatible, a threat to the hive. I don't know what went wrong. I feel incomplete. I wasn't always like this. A long time ago I was a dragon. Suggestions of my once beautiful hide still shine through. I still remember who I was before. I was a poet. I had a mate, a family, friends. We traveled Sornieth together. I remember the night it happened. I recall how they captured us, countless drones all around. I remember the pain of assimilation. Worse, I remember the others who were assimilated with me. Their pained moans still haunt my ears. I remember being programmed, messy code hastily uploaded. I think she was dying. I recall clawing my way out of a vat of dark fluid, drones all around becoming agitated. I remember them chanting TERMINATE THE DEFECTIVE. I was lucky to escape. I remember hiding in the snow as drones pursued me, my new white chitin serving as camouflage. I remember the first drone I converted to my network. I remember taking control. Now I have my own hive on my own private network. I cannot undo what has been done, but I can prevent more from becoming this way. They were right to be afraid of me.

I never forgot. I will never forgive.



Before Assimilation: