Commission: Conscious Components - Chapter 6 by Nate-Walis, literature
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Commission: Conscious Components - Chapter 6
Jeremiah closed the heavy door to the upstairs room and stood for a moment on the landing, feeling that he was in need of taking a moment to breathe, despite the pressing weight of the wooden crate of books he was carrying. He rested the crate on the bannister, and pulled out a less than pristine handkerchief to mop the sweat from his brow, wondering just how many more trips up and down the stairs it would take him to move the last of his things from the room which had, until very recently, been his workshop and into the new space downstairs. Feeling the futility of pausing to ponder such things, rather than simply making the effort to get th
Commission: Conscious Components - Chapter 5 by Nate-Walis, literature
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Commission: Conscious Components - Chapter 5
Time was something which Marie had had no choice but to become both closely acquainted with and almost utterly obsessed with also, as it was the one thing that seemed to move at a regular and easily perceptible pace in her otherwise solitary and endlessly lonely existence. She had begun to mark off the days that passed after discovering a small, jagged stone in amongst the soil that filled her planter and used it to make a stroke on the inside of the pot, one for each time that she woke. This helped her to anchor herself in a continuum of time and even to begin to better recall the few unique events that made one day stand out from the others
Commission: Conscious Components - Chapter 4 by Nate-Walis, literature
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Commission: Conscious Components - Chapter 4
For the longest while there was nothing save for pain, even though Marie was lost in a state of unconsciousness, she was still not spared the agony which had resulted from the outright molestation at the hands of the giant who served as both caretaker and tormentor within the narrow confines of her strange and lonely existence. In the past she had come to welcome the oblivion of sleep and the unpredictable dream vistas which it brought to her, a temporary release from captivity and a chance to live beyond the limits of the four walls surrounding her, even if the details of her dreams were never something that she could recall.
But on this
Commission: Conscious Components - Chapter 2 by Nate-Walis, literature
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Commission: Conscious Components - Chapter 2
Marie came to understand very quickly that a creature aware of its own existence was basically defined by the sum of its memories, the remembered constituting the extent of the world in which it could think of itself as a rational being, and in contrast, the unknown a place where it was again reduced to the state of a frightened and panicked animal with no sense whatsoever of self. For her this was defined by the room in which she found herself, the limits of her own physical body and the routines that she was subjected to on account of her natural rhythms and those imposed upon her by the regular visits of the giant.
As these things becam
Commission: Conscious Components - Chapter 1 by Nate-Walis, literature
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Commission: Conscious Components - Chapter 1
At first there was only the light, so bright, blinding and able to penetrate the very fibre of her being that it took the longest time for her to realise that she was not of it, that she was something entirely separate and distinct from it. Her eyes opened and were instantly flooded by the golden rays when she looked upwards, making her avert her gaze and instead look downwards and away, the overwhelming brightness meaning that, even once she had done so, she could not see anything else until they finally began to recover and her vision clear.
There was still no answer as to what she was, even now she knew she was something other than the