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Dear Condor,
There was a short delay in my response to you because I read your letter,
and decided that I wanted to implement your suggestion regarding my new
noisy neighbor, then wait to see if it worked. It seems to have, at least
for now. I kind of maybe got the feeling that I will eventually have to
reset my connection to him after he forgets. I’m not saying that he’s
dumb, but I noticed he would regularly lose his train of thought, and forget
key aspects of the stories that he was telling. I came to find out that
researchers here are aware of his issues. They’re still not certain if he
would have developed this way had he been born on Earth, or if there’s
something specific to this environment that led to his neurological
shortcomings. Right now, they’re leaning towards the latter. All children
are different, but others have shown similar signs of developmental problems
that need to be addressed. At the moment, there are still some variables
that they have to account for, so they can’t arrive at any conclusion on the
cause. This is a relatively small population. There must have been something
about the progenitors’ own psychology that made them want to come here at
all, and they all had to pass certain tests to qualify. These factors, along
with others, limit the gene pool, making it more difficult to test
hypotheses when it comes to determining the effects that this world might
have on humans as a rule. I have to say, I’m surprised I didn’t know
anything about any of this before. I guess they’re trying to keep it
hush-hush. It is funny, though, they might be missing out on valuable data
by keeping the rest of us in the dark. I belong to a subset of the
population: children who had no choice but to travel to this world; born on
Earth, grown up on the ship, and working on the base. The criteria for our
selection was different than it was for the adults, of course. Studying us
may tell them something that they’re not seeing now. I’m not gonna let them
know about this, because I’m already a test subject, and I don’t need to add
to that pressure. I still can’t find anyone who will tell me what exactly
they’ve learned from the whole twins separated at birth study. I don’t know
which team might be responsible for that, and I can’t get the top brass to
even admit that it’s a thing. In a way, my situation is not dissimilar to
Bray’s. We’re both being studied against our will. I think that’s what
really endeared him to me, and honestly, this street seems to go both ways.
He has had a much harder life than I realized, and I think that he also
sometimes wishes that he were on Earth. I’m not saying it was okay that he
was playing music while I was trying to sleep, but I kind of understand this
behavior better now. They weren’t watching him in secret. They were really
in his face about it, and they probably just made everything worse. I do not
envy him, and it really puts our situation into perspective, don’t you
think?
Sleeping in the quiet once more,
Corinthia
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