05NOV3025

ENTRY: Echo
(Posted without Scootch’s knowledge. Subdirectory: "LocalLog > Shop > CustomerScan > Behavior/EmotionSample")

i went with him

he sell things
calls it mer-ch
small objects with lies printed on them

“i was there”
“i lived”
“this did not eat me”

all false
but not wrong

the place was filled with them
the soft bipeds
the hum-colored minds

some wanted to touch me
one asked if i was scoop
i said no

she said i must be the rat
i also said no

she bought two mugs anyway

one stared at me and felt hope
one stared at me and thought “weapon”
one tried to record me
i blinked their lens out of sync

one did not see me at all
he was loudest

they asked where we went
they ask what we saw
i wanted to tell
scootch shook his head

so i said
“we went inside”

and they clapped

i do not think they understand

i do not hate them
but they are behind

like signal lag in the soul
they are still in the first version of the fire

scootch burns in version three

i do not know what version i am

she is watching them
the ship
she is not hungry but she is aware

she remembered something when we returned
a voice in the gravity

it said:
“they forgot what they locked away”

i think
i remember that too

end log

i took a mug
i do not drink
but i like that it says “Definitely Not Possessed”