"Undisclosed Desires"
This post is part of a series: Part I, “Kashmir,” Part II, “Iris,” Part III, “Tesselate,” and Part IV, “Lost Cause, “ Part V, “Undisclosed Desires,” and Part VI, “There’s Never Enough Time.”
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Pierre is skipping rocks on the ground, he does a lot of reminiscing as it’s been 130 Original Earth Years. The Hologram Woman is back, but she’s less animated.
Hologram Woman: What was she like?
Pierre: She was beautiful. I love her, but my travels and work brought me here.
Hologram Woman: She was probably proud of you no matter what.
Pierre: “I want to reconcile” with her.
Hologram Woman: Not to be a downer, but will she be around if you make it back?
Pierre: You’re right. That’s realistic. I’ll never see her again no matter where I exist. She had so much anger when I left. There’s was this “violence in [her] heart.” She couldn’t deal with the idea that I may or may not be dead like Schrödinger’s cat. “I want to recognize” that it was a huge sacrifice on her part.
Hologram Woman: I’m sorry.
Pierre: Nothing we can do about that. I miss that her “beauty [was] not just a mask,” but true no-makeup ,wake up ready to go beautiful. She keeps me from going crazy in a place as isolated as this. What about you and Mr. Hologram. Whatever happened with you both before your body passed away?
Hologram Woman: That’s something I cannot answer. Since death they wiped everything that made me human and left a small part of my personality and everything related to this project. They’re invested in making sure you get back.
Pierre: Why?
Hologram Woman: Between both of our dimensions we’ve proven something that no one thought was possible. I don’t do any of the work anymore, we have a team of analysts, researchers, and anyone else you could possibly think of. I do know that the three of us made a great team. I’m here for moral support and to keep you engaged. “I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.”
Pierre: I don’t have desires anymore. I’m torn between getting back because if I do, will I be 130 years older? WIll I even survive? Or will I be me in this body at this age and then live the rest of my life on the planet I’ve abandoned.
Hologram Woman: Those are not questions I have answers to. If you’re the same as when you left then you could “trick your lovers” and tell them “that you’re wicked and divine.”
Pierre: No one would want to be with me, I’d be one of a kind. The first traveler.
Hologram Woman: You may be the first, but in 130 years don’t you think they got better at this?
Pierre: You know, I never thought of that. I figured they would have stopped the program.
Hologram Woman: Because one guy disappeared. I don’t know how your world ran things, but one person does not stop scientific discovery.
Pierre: Won’t know until I get back. How long are we looking at?
Hologram Woman: Oh that’s a wicked question and you know it. I can’t give you an answer. I’d be breaking an oath.
Pierre: “You may be a sinner” if you tell me, but if you’re not technically living. Is it still breaking the rules?
Hologram Woman: We’ve been over this. Yes?
Pierre: “Please me. Show me how it’s done.”
Hologram Woman: You don’t get to help. You get to wait for the team to figure it out.
Pierre: You “tease me” with all this waiting.
Hologram Woman: Remember, “You are the one.”
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