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| - | ====== Entry — In transit, six hours out ====== | + | === PAGE: journal: |
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| - | I keep starting sentences about this and stopping | + | Ten of us. |
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| + | I've been counting them on this train, which is something I haven' | ||
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| + | We had numbers before we had anything else. Before we had the training or the missions or the particular shape of what each of us became, we had a sequence. An order. I used to think the numbers were neutral — administrative, | ||
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| + | I was [NUMBER]. I am still [NUMBER], I suppose, in whatever accounting system that house runs on. It never stops being yours once it's given. | ||
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| + | What I remember about being [NUMBER] specifically — what that position felt like, what it communicated about where I stood in the sequence — is something I've been sitting with since the letter arrived. Whether it was a good number or a bad one. Whether the father chose deliberately or whether the sequence was just the order in which he found us, assembled us, decided we were ready to be assigned a place in the line. | ||
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| + | I don't know. I've never known. I'm not sure it matters now in the way it mattered then, when everything about the household communicated something and you were always reading for signals. | ||
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| + | Ten of us on a train, theoretically. Ten of us converging on a house that made us and broke most of us and is now offering something — the will, the inheritance, | ||
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| + | //I keep arriving at myself in this count and not knowing what to write. The others I can do — I have observations, | ||
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| + | //[NUMBER]. Harrison Hargreaves. Twenty-four years old and on a train back to the place that made me.// | ||
| - | I'm going to write them down. All of them. That's what this journal is for. I'm going to make sure that I keep a note of the memories of my siblings. I can refer to these pages, update the notes, and whatever. | + | //That'll have to be enough |
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| - | //These pages are located at these links:// | + | //The individual entries on each sibling |
| - | * Orvell | + | * [[021a_orvell|Orvell]] |
| - | * Luca | + | * [[021c_luca|Luca]] |
| - | * Crystal Nova | + | * [[021d_crystal_nova|Crystal Nova]] |
| - | * Alexander | + | * [[021e_alexander|Alexander]] |
| - | * Bayangan | + | * [[021f_bayangan|Bayangan]] |
| - | * Isolde | + | * [[021g_isolde|Isolde]] |
| - | * Samantha | + | * [[021h_samantha|Samantha]] |
| - | * Monarch | + | * [[021i_monarch|Monarch]] |
| - | * Unnamed sibling | + | * [[021b_tylon|Tylon]] |