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[glowsferatu]

hope can be such a fickle thing

ive lived my life without it for years and it chooses now of all times to barrel its way back in
but none of that makes it fit in the environment
its only like an ice cube trying to enjoy a summers day

even when im staring at it in front of me i cant seem to conquer the idea that it isnt mine
that im not the one who gets a happy ending its only being borrowed from someone else
another me from another timeline who things progressed more happily for
another me who could look at this and actually feel like shes earned it

i dont know what to do with this feeling
except to know its made a fool of me

[ She includes a photo taken on her desk, some weird black ball covered in candy corn spikes. Is it a Halloween decoration? ]

im going to be a mother after all

Comments

[redplainsrider]

Yer species?

[glowsferatu]

yes
once shes mature she would be the key to reviving it
if the conditions will be favorable to it by then

[redplainsrider]

Wait, yer the last of yer kind?

Or...ya just meaning bringin' yer race here? [Hopefully the latter.]

that was supposed to be video, sorry

[glowsferatu]

It's a bit...both. On my timeline, I'm among the final seven of my species. There are currently only two of us here, on this world.

figured so haha

[redplainsrider]

That's, er...

[Gosh, that's sad.]

Sorry fer yer loss.
But congratulations fer yer bundle'a joy?

[glowsferatu]

This isn't a day to focus on loss, the loss is behind us. Today, I have something to speak for the future beyond it.

[redplainsrider]

[Visibly relaxes now that she is absolved of the awkward duty of pitying the destruction of a species. She's not socially apt for things like that.]

Reckon. But ain't that jest one egg? How can ya start a whole new civilization with just one. [Beat.] Or is it an ant type'a situation an' that'll be a queen sort'a fella?

[glowsferatu]

functionally the mother grub serves a similar role to the queen of many eusocial species
but only functionally
we werent eusocial and we had another queen entirely
i would use the term incubator to more accurately describe the process

not that any of it will be viable here
it would take more time and numbers than i am likely to have available
raising her here is more symbolic of what is able to take place on the alpha timeline than a comparable execution of it