Reading: "Arktalus" from EVENFALL OF THE HELICAL (A.Glass 2022).

 

“We're a fuck up...The human race,” Tadri replies, exhaling, leaning back into her chair.

“That might be the case, but, and I am going to be esoteric here, we, human beings are that light in the darkness. Your still here Hannah, doing an important job in this city. Despite the challenges and hardships, we have to maintain. You have to maintain.”

“I know, sometimes it's just hard.”

“I'm going to reduce the stabilizers, you've improved significantly since our first appointment. My recommendation is checked above my last rating, you are still fit to work as a paramedic.”

Tadri nods in an appreciative way. “Thank you doctor, you've helped out a lot.”

“But, I still need to see you for the duration of the therapy. Your post trauma may linger from time to time, so the evaluation will continue. I would like you to attend my office in two weeks...” The psychologist leans over to where his desk is, lifting up a computer tablet. “...Thursday the Twenty Eighth, mid morning at Eleven Thirty?”

“That's fine, it's my day off.”

Both Tadri and Doctor Phillips stand, as he walks towards the door, opening it, smiling in a supportive manner as Tadri leaves the psychologist's office.

A man sitting alone, dressed in ochre colored robes of a Dius master, opens his palm, placing a small electronic device over his right index finger. As a sophisticated ultraviolet laser measures his blood compounds more importantly the viral indicator which is also his portable data-sync. It promptly shows “Negative” within its small screen readout, placing the device back into his left robe pocket, he pulls down his mask. Standing, he looks up, as twilight descends over the inner city parkland.

“Time to visit an old friend,” he says to himself.

Walking towards the end of the small park which overlooks one of the many sectors of Arktalus, with its masses of buildings and structures.

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“Bound to nothing, believe in nothing. Submit to nothing. Rejection and acceptance. The simultaneous and stillness of thought, in its discerned reality. With moments, that are only of the now.”

Dius Proverb

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Reading: "Arktalus" from EVENFALL OF THE HELICAL (A.Glass 2022)