[Mkguild] A Day In The Life I

[Narwhal KillerNarwhal]

I can attest to this fact.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 1:48 PM, christian okane <chrisokane at optimum.net>
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> You'll always find someone at night on the MKGuild IRC channel!
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> Chris
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> *From:* mkguild-bounces at lists.integral.org [mailto:
> mkguild-bounces at lists.integral.org] *On Behalf Of *Jack Moore
> *Sent:* Monday, June 15, 2015 9:39 PM
> *To:* mkguild at lists.integral.org
> *Subject:* [Mkguild] A Day In The Life I
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> AN: I am horribly depressed but I'm trying to send this out. I'd love to
> speak to anyone out there.
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> A Day in the Life
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> "I hate this place." The male said. I heard him and could see him from my
> place in the crowd.
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>             A falconry glove? I frowned. Why would a lizard need that?
> Scales on his face said he'd be a lizard and his common gold eyes proved
> it. Mine were a vibrant blue. That's the advantage of being a Sailfin
> Lizard; you have beautiful sapphire eyes.
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>             My name is Janelle. I am a corporal in the Metamor Keep Watch,
> one with unique gifts and decent observation skills. And this was the first
> time I saw James, when he was James.
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>             But that's not the story I want to tell. Instead let's talk
> about the second time and the day it happened. This story is a single day
> in my life, one I hope you will find entertaining my dear listener.
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>             I ask before we proceed to pass no judgement. Our lives in
> Metamor Keep are hard enough even without the judgement of others. Just
> remember, everyone I tell you about is real. Their lives, their hopes and
> their fears are real, but I only get to see brief glimpses of it.
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>             We must remain unbiased when we approach an event. That is the
> nature of justice and of the Watch.
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> ***
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>             This place again.
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>             I stood up. It was dark. I could see.
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>             The edges of the walls glowed a dull white. There seemed to be
> nothing above me, just an eternal void. Looking up at it, I felt my feet
> begin to lift up. "No! No! NO! I'm not floating! I'm on the ground!" I
> closed my eyes. "This is the ground and I am not floating." I opened my
> eyes.
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>             Still on the ground. I let out a sigh of relief. "This is
> where I'm in control. I have control here."
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>             "Do you?" A chill ran through me. I forced myself to walk down
> the hall. The air stuck to my scales and pulled each one upward. It stuck
> in my nose, my lungs burned when trying to breathe.
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>             "Is anyone here?" The words fell to the ground like stones in
> water. The air thickened, but I pushed myself forward. The walls were
> formless, endless. Where did the floor meet them?
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>             I could feel the floor under my feet but my tail wasn't
> dragging on anything. My tail is the size of a log. Why isn't it dragging?
> I looked up again. The eternity had grown a little closer
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>             The air needed to be forced apart now by my body. But I could
> see something. A dull glow that was gaining brightness; a light in the
> distance. Every time I had this dream the light appeared now. "I need to
> get to that. Got to get there."
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>             My mind returned to my early days in the Watch when I was
> still on my feet after twelve hours. Little water, lots of running and
> burning muscles. But the end was in sight then.
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>             The only thing in sight for me was the light. It winked in and
> out, the air wanted to choke it. My muscles screamed for me to start. I
> never got to where I was by being sensible.
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>             "Stop Janelle." I froze. "You can't undo this if you make it."
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>             "What are you talking about?"
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>             "Turn around Janelle. Go home." The voice came from where I
> stood. Not under me but almost echoing from the same space.
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>             "I have to move." I growled. "I've got to reach the light."
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>             "Do you know what you're doing? You have to stop." I started
> walking again. Like I was up to my waste in water with rocks around my
> ankles. I stopped again, coughing out thick air.
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>             "This isn't right. This isn't-
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>             "No it's not." The voice returned. "Go home." I looked around.
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>             "That's not it either. The problem is what is holding me?" It
> yanked on my scales, each one individually. "It's the air...but not the
> air? Something...it can't..." I could see it now.
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>             Hands, hands made out of air and darkness were gripping me.
> Thousands of inhuman hands trying to hold me in place. I screamed; it
> didn't pierce the wall.
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>             "You can't escape us all Janelle."
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>             "You couldn't save us." Another voice.
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>             "You can save yourself."
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>             "Let go of me!" I took off into a run. Now they pulled harder
> on me but my blood rushed through me. I felt them pulling on my scales, my
> fin, my nostrils and my jaw. I swung my arms in a futile attempt to pull
> free.
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>             "Stop yourself Janelle!" The three became one, joined by
> thousands of others in a damned chorus. "Turn around."
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>             "I can't!" The pain was overwhelming. I pushed foreword. "I
> have to know what's in there. What is past the light." They gripped harder
> but it didn't matter. I was going foreword.
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>             Left. Thud. Right. Thud. I couldn't breathe. Could barely see.
> I kept going anyway though.
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>             "We will stop you." The dammed chorus shouted. "We will turn
> you back."
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>             "No you...won't." I grit my teeth and pushed. "I have to save
> them!"
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>             "Why Janelle?" I fell into a pant. "You couldn't save us. You
> can't save everyone." They were right. I knew it of course.
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>             "But that doesn't mean I can't try." I said. "I can fix
> everything. I can change this! I swear to Eli I can change this." Change
> what? What am I doing here?
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>             The hands fell away. The voices went silent. And again I was
> alone. I crossed my arms around me, trying to hold on to any heat I still
> had.
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>             "I don't want to be here." I looked foreword. The light glared
> at me, begging me to move. "I...have to do this." the light shone brighter.
> "I have to." I took off running into it.
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>             "I have too." It consumed me. "I have to save-
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> ****
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>             -I...I..." I pulled myself up onto my knees. "I'm...alive." I
> lay on my bed, as I always do, on my side. It's the only way to sleep with
> a massive sail fin tail. My only bed sheet was kicked off as always.
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>             The room was silent except for the sounds of gentle snoring.
> My son Kaysar, never disturbed by the nightmares of his mother.
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>             "Same nightmare." I swallowed. "Why don't I remember?" I
> whispered to myself, mindful of the other sleeper. "Why don't I remember?"
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>             The stone floor is always cold but when you are a reptile it
> hits you like an arrow. I brushed it off. The tiny window (the only one in
> my dwelling) showed the sun beginning to rise.
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> Time to get ready.
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