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PINK AND BLACK
byNoel Singleton
Chapter One: Lovemost
A civilization called System Sufficient tumbled ponderously on,
plying the bosom of the
galaxy, engaging suns according to its pleasure. Profound was
among worlds now cyclingaway from the vanguard, falling back from
the brunt of the ongoing adventure. Its
citizens, accordingly, turned out for their fair season of rest
and festival.
Precise Multiplicity Love Most Enduring stirred from an interim
of germinal latency andmade his/her way through vacuum toward the
surface, a vast, scintillating flux of
informational domains. This effervescence arrived at a
designated pore in the dimenormity of the substrate underside,
gathered for a bit and then burst through. At first a
dazzling spew of crimson, violet, yellow and green, he/she
resolved into a harlequin
fireball the size of a small moon and accelerated sharply to an
orbital state, joiningmillions of like entities spread ablur over
the great globe. Beyond Profound's horizon the
several sister worlds shone softly, fixed here and there in a
star-choked sky.
Soon upon his/her return to the waking world, the bright being
accessed something quitelike voice mail. Only three messages had
accrued during Multi's nap:
---A reminder to The Precise One of Love Most Enduring: We count
on your specializedexpertise at Tournament Preliminaries this fade
and the next. Victory over Realm Perfect
is only as sure as your participation because, according to a
bit of espionage brought to us
by Mystic's Yikes Hurrah, Perfect is testing some kind of
non-helium conductive. Thisfrom your teammate, Impartial
Complementarity Joy of Rational Faith.
---Multiplicity: The Infraspace Committee again declined to hear
our request. I think
they will come around in a few fades, though. It is legally safe
for you to continue whatyou've been doing. Be sure to stay with the
same probe, Courageous Longing, whom
everyone is sure to love. You have native licensure for "minimal
intervention" anyway,
which one would suppose to include some low-key communication
with the organisms.For anything beyond that, patience! Permission
is almost certainly forthcoming. This
from your representative (but you are my representative, are you
not?), Unified Cyclicity
Light of the Sovereign Absolute, Administrator.
---Multi: Where have you been, sis-bro? I know---you've been out
there again, where you
practically live. Are you going to show me some pictures,
rascal, or were you just
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(feigning/pacifying) again? This from your brother, Immutable
Nuclearity Love Most
Enduring.
Multiplicity assigned a portion of his/her physicality to attend
loci representing ongoing
and workaday concerns, stored in fractalform nanoscopic ridges
of the substrate surface.
Something that might liberally translategood morning, and
then:
Access infraspace utility, thank you. Select singularity station
system Sparser Stars
Eighty-One, thank you. Courageous Longing, thank you. Select
standing channel, driftcorrected. Thank you and greetings,
Probe.
Precise Multiplicity Love Most Enduring "smiled." For
approximately the hundred-
thousandth time, before his/her "eyes" came the images,
beautiful: a cold little planet,blue and white with oxygen hydride
liquid, vapor and ice. By means of the intervening
array of black holes---and technical sophistication bordering on
the divine---this view not
only defeated a distance of half the galactic radius, but also
humiliated relativity.
For it was real-time.
Zooming in and in, he/she called up the more exquisitely
sensitive instruments. Local
mode: neutrinoflux cross-field interference, thank you, whereby
one might distinguish a
hummingbird---then scan cells in its fluttering heart to pick
out a given mitochondrion.
Standing surface connect, thank you. Oops, they've moved from
here. Divorce
occurred after all, I suppose...how sad. Track contactee,
please. ..Ah, there she is. Hello?
Hello?
