The Job

 
Pointer (starts) - Yes

Extender (remembers plan) - Yes

Partner (recognizes leak) - No

Confuser (estimates strength) - Yes?

Extender (gives impetus) - Yes



Secretkeeper (accepts leak) - Yes

Partner (expects competition) - No

Confuser (encourages competitor) - Yes?

Extender (calculates odds) - Yes

Pointer (continues) - Yes



Extender (receives resource) - Yes

Confuser (measures disturbance) - No

Secretkeeper (searches storage) - No

Extender (suggests slowness) - Yes?

Partner (finds toy) - Yes



Extender (fixes path) -  Yes

Partner (starts process) - Yes

Pointer (collects remainder) - Yes

Confuser (checks speed) - Yes

Secretkeeper (after finishing) - No!



Confuser (evaluates performance) - Yes?

Secretkeeper (stores remainder) - Yes

Pointer (stuffs toy) - Yes

Secretkeeper (increases leak) - Yes

Confuser (loses toy) - Yes

How lie came

Sharing food we coexisted. Then they lost tails and stayed on trees.

Held the trees' touch. And a desire to mark. Fingers chose stones.

Wrote for permanency and visibility. Discovered fire.

They traveled to tell more. Tree pipes carried tunes far.

Minds shared sounds. Turns pieced vibrations, made words.

They saw thoughts. One made another speak.

They lost fur, wore clothes, lost smell, looked different.

Someone misunderstood. Then someone blinked.

Then some slept, and some dreamed.

Maaya, me, and Heli

This post is a sequel to Maaya, me, and the Zero

*image courtesy

"So, what remains?" Maaya asked.
"After the end?" I continued.
"A way to speak" we thought.
"And someways not to" said a voice.

We were sitting on a ridge, high and narrow, having vertical slopes like a cliff on both sides.

"We should not fight" I said.
"We have no reasons to" said Maaya.
"Nothing" we thought.

The night sky above had a few shimmering stars.

"Should we have separated?" I asked.
"You drew the line" Maaya said.
"Should we have waited more?" we thought.
"No" said Heli, the voice. 

Some were coming. They were not far away, but hardly visible in the starlight.

"Have we changed?" I asked.
"Does it matter?" Maaya asked.
"Something remains" we thought.
"Yes" said Heli.

They came and waved hello. Each of them carried a light of its own.
"An egg of light for each of you" said Heli while offering, she smiled.

A cocoon had me and was lit. There were twinkles, some were spontaneous, and some hid. 
"I hear a child's voice" I said.
"Same here" she said, "Mine says he loves me".

"Wow", I said.
"Oh yes", she said.
"Do you want to come in mine?" we thought.

"The child wants something", I said.
"I want", she said.
"Maybe we didn't meet for the wrong reason", we thought.

"She pointed at a light", I said.
"His hand holds something", she said.
"What is it?", we thought.

"She is smiling", I said.
"He is looking away", she said.
"They are happy", we thought.

I was suddenly feeling sad.
She was suddenly feeling angry.
"We know why this is hapenning", we thought.

"An egg of light was for each of you" said Heli.

The cocoon shrank, excluded me, and continued shrinking till it was big enough to hold the baby. Then they waved and said a goodbye and the two cocoons slowly drifted away from us. We watched in silence till they were small enough. Our emotions also started dissipating away slowly.

"I cannot go back to it ignoring everything else", I said.
"Neither can I wait for mine any longer, I think", she said.
"We don't like this", we thought.
"They were happy", said Heli, pointing at the hardly visible speck of light, "And they will be", she whispered.