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September 25th, 2009
08:19 pm
-What's your name, Melinda?
-Wait, I'm floating.
-Let me know when you're done.
-It hurts, you know. Nobody could tell.
-Not by the way you do it.
-Are you afraid of me?
-I thought you were busy. I'm not afraid, I'm just careful. You look frail.
-Oh yes, we're supposed to look like that. Are you attracted to me?
-Attracted? What does that mean?
-Mm, now I see it, the life of this land, it's intriguing.
-What did you mean by attracted?
-Only the fact that I know your kind better than you do.
-Am I not disturbing your procedures?
-You are making it less painful. Thank you.
-Why does it hurt exatcly?
-It is not a natural process for the body. It registers a disturbance of balance, so the brain produces an alarm - pain.
-Why do you still do it then?
-Because I can't do otherwise.
-I understand what you mean. It's like a habbit, like smoking for me.
-You know what's smoking and you don't know what's attraction. What do they teach you these days?
-None of that stuff you talk about.
-So I've heard.
-What do you see now?
-The subjective truth. I don't really like it.
-It's the reality. You don't have to like it, you have to live in it.
-I don't have to. It's you, people, you always have to.
-Could you get down, please, I feel weird talking to you like this.
-You should feel weird talking to me at all.
-True.
-I've read the poems of your kind. And they are as real as what I see, yet completely different.
-You must have read the wrong ones.
-Why don't you go and drink yourself to sleep? Maybe a cigarette by the open window, an evening magazine and a cup of cold coffee would also be useful.
-You talk so surely about things you have no idea of.
-Well, you have no idea of me.
-And what's your name then?
-Now I can tell you. Oh, it feels so light... And my true name is Thara.
-Weird for you to have two of them. Many of us don't even have one.
-We are quite different. You are the only local who knows my name now, you may not speak about it, though.
-How will you know?
-The magic always knows, just because it's everywhere.
-I shall be careful then.
-And I shall be one of you someday, like my sisters.
-Do you predict something?
-I am just trying to state the obvious. That our worlds will eventually blend.
-So...are we in the future or in the past of your time?
-We are in the present. But there is no such thing as future or past, you can never tell those apart. It is only polite to talk about the present, the only thing you know for certain.
-You have read our poems, and you still don't know how to talk to us properly.
-Oh, I know, I just have no need to try. You already know who I am.
-Oh, I am not so sure.
-I saw it change...
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