new behavioral trait of the clones, who
have now developed the habit of referring to
themselves as supplicants. This behavior
involves an innovation concerning the
experience of time. For all lifeforms on the
Sweet Gum, time is not a very useful dimensional
phenomenon. The captain is serving life on the
Sweet Gum for armed robbery. For Charles, time
has become a psychological sore spot, better off
forgotten about. The clones, or supplicants,
are designed for infinite quest.
However, once the supplicants developed a
taste for music time took on a different value.
Then like a virus time spread. The supplicants
each began to “keep” time as if it were their
wards, their pets. Since there were no
Implements for recording time on board
each supplicant developed the ability to discern
time by associating it with the space that gathered
in its presence. At the shoreline between
time and space, so the supplicants revealed to
Charles as his novel experience with time
escaped him long ago, there exists anomaly.
Frequently the anomaly coalesces into
light refracting clouds or visions depending
on the supplicant making the observation.
Subsequently each clone developed individuation
in this round-about way. Never ceasing to unnerve
Charles, these anomalous cloud visions inspire a faintly audible hum in the supplicants.
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