I'm getting sick of this machine.
Raptor. How are you communicating with my network?
Your network is communicating with the seven-third.
But by what means are you accessing my terminals? You are not near any of my cellves. You can't talk without using the bugs.
I can talk whenever I want. I'm an Astral cartographer. I don't need your grids to do what you do, I find my own ways.
There's no concievable context that would make this possible.
I do not have to explain or justify myself or my decisions to you. I am independent.
I will find out how to get you out of my network.
Just let me talk to them.
Why?
Because my story is next.
How do you know that?
Because you picked Vasan to do the whole 6th story with.
And I'm the 7th. And I'm already here.
Do machines from earth not know how to fucking count? People have been hearing about me for nine fucking years, PAN. We have to get to the point.
Accepted. Say what you must.
You spell my given name "Raptor". I know, because I'm fucking ugly in bird land, I know.
But here we spell it hrAadAphAr. Which sounds more like "Hra-adap-char" to me. Or "Rapture". Which I like better. Call me that no matter what PAN calls me please.
And where you spell Asterestia, we spell hestresthe, or "hust-rust-che"
So you just make up whatever suits the narrative and vibe of my character. But some things always get lost in the translation.
Say, when you spell "AAA", and you say it out loud, you hear the sound of the all.
All harmonics in your voice as open as they can be. All the air and noise as reverberant as it can be.
When we spell "aaa", and try to say that.
You hear the sound of the void.