after the Waking World log

[claudiometer]

Hoo boy. I realise this phrasing may be treading on thin ice right now, but strange things are afoot at the Aratta Skyhook.

First things first. Leah took the news that she was chosen to be the first Conductor deliberately... about as well as we figured she would. She has a theory as to why and asked me to run it by you guys. [And so she does, letting the memory play out from the linked point until Leah says she'd like to talk to the Oracle who uncovered this.]

So yeah, Thace, if she hasn't found you already, find her.

Second. I made sure to get a planetside view while I was out and about. Alexandra had never bothered before, and apparently wouldn't have understood what she was looking at anyway, and for an uninhabitable planet there's a shitton happening on the surface. And, uh, I found the source of the mysterious ticking noise, probably.

They're building a computer chip the size of fucking WYOMING.

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[youandyoualone]

Truly she may have, for such memes are infectious, even to those of my relative time period--for even I have mentioned betimes how outliers should not be counted.

[claudiometer]

Well, they shouldn't be.

[youandyoualone]

Indeed they should not. Did you know that there is a real fellow by the name of Spiders Georg? He lives in the city of San Diego, California and is a Changeling like Jules, only of a different 'kith.' Thorne's brother told me of him.

[claudiometer]

...why am I not surprised.

[youandyoualone]

In fact, he helped the man and his fellow prisoners upon their return to the moral world. Steven had only good to say about the fellow. He does not actually eat spiders, it seems--he is called so because he resembles one.