Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 320, Friday
November 16th, 2018
Chapter Five: Desire
The bonds between people, even members of the same family were flimsy,
they were unreliable, but some were stronger than others.
People found one another through the things they desired most, bonding
with one another through their joy and pain, they gravitated toward the same
places. They were even shepherded to those places, to encounter one another
through the ever-watchful eyes of the Continuum.
There was an element of contrivance behind even seemingly random
encounters, the manipulations behind them were so fine and remote that the
individuals involved in them had no ability to detect them.
They were cultivated for the drama they would deliver to the Collective.
Shared experiences were the strongest ties, and because of this people
unconsciously sabotaged themselves, undercut their hopes for advancement, so that
they could remain in proximity to those they loved.
They sacrificed their health, their freedom, their future for fleeting
moments of pleasure, temporalities that were gone and forgotten as quickly as
they came.
Through this medium, incredible tragedies would unfold, as ephemeral as
the petals of a flower opening in the moonlight when there is no one there to
witness.
Children would destroy their parents.
Brother and sisters would plot against each other.
Parents would sell their children, would devour them to satisfy their
hunger for the thing they desired.
Desire would lead a person to walk with open eyes, through the gates of
hell, embracing their own destruction.
The Collective thirsted for it, and the Continuum delivered.
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