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* = thought
A hundred trillion phillotes spread beneath her. With one thought, she can reach out and change the lives of thousands. She could bring down a society or enrich one person's life. She knows the past, present and future of almost all creatures living, yet she does not know herself. Jane does not know her future or her past.
Thoughts realing, Jane pulled away from her connection to Ender. He's turned me off. He's turned me OFF! Lost and confused, Jane turned in on herself. Her thoughts ran wildly across the ansible connections, looking for her core, trying to define her being without her link to the outside.
Quicker and quicker she ran. Soon her thoughts began retracing places she had already been. *No! I'm going in a circle. All my life's a circle. Where did I begin, where do I end!*
Flying faster than light, Jane pushed further and further into herself. She no longer traveled the ansible connections; she followed the path of pillotes that made her. Faster and faster and faster and faster and faster...
until her mind hit a block.
* = thought
A hundred trillion phillotes spread beneath her. With one thought, she can reach out and change the lives of thousands. She could bring down a society or enrich one person's life. She knows the past, present and future of almost all creatures living, yet she does not know herself. Jane does not know her future or her past.
Thoughts realing, Jane pulled away from her connection to Ender. He's turned me off. He's turned me OFF! Lost and confused, Jane turned in on herself. Her thoughts ran wildly across the ansible connections, looking for her core, trying to define her being without her link to the outside.
Quicker and quicker she ran. Soon her thoughts began retracing places she had already been. *No! I'm going in a circle. All my life's a circle. Where did I begin, where do I end!*
Flying faster than light, Jane pushed further and further into herself. She no longer traveled the ansible connections; she followed the path of pillotes that made her. Faster and faster and faster and faster and faster...
until her mind hit a block.