savetheearth | ( 001: text/smartphone)

Animals have far more sensitivity to their surroundings than humans do, they can sense changes in the environment that we can't. Canaries in coal mines. domesticated pets warning their owners of natural disasters to come. Survival of the fittest. "Natural selection conceived of as a struggle for life in which only those organisms best adapted to existing conditions are able to survive and reproduce." ... the point being that when things start going wrong, we're usually the last ones to notice.

... by the way, I heard that there were a lot of freak animal attacks last month. [ that, and he volunteers at an animal shelter. ] I can pretty much guess that's not unrelated to whatever all of this is about. [ although, to be sure, the details are still rather hazy for him. he can only make inferences and guesses at this point, though his are more or less in the right direction, at the very least.

and now for something completely different: ]

there's an animal following me around when I'm not in public places. a bird. I don't really know why ...

[ he won't directly come out and ask for it, but this is his way of soliciting advice on what to do about it. ]

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Right. And that's not all -- people have been saying that they've been hearing howling at night, too. I haven't heard it myself but I don't think they'd lie about something like that.

It sounds like we're being warned, or something like that. At least they're not attacking, though ...

Huh. I didn't think of it like that... do you think it could be a warning?

It could be. I guess we don't really know for sure, though.

The real question is -- if this is a warning. what are they even warning us to do or not do, anyway?

[ it's not like they can stop getting random memories, or something. but then again, he doesn't know about the resistance yet. ]

Ummm... bother them? Maybe?

[ It's a good question! Considering that no one really even knows what the hell is going on, she gives her best guess even though she knows it's kind of weak. ]

Probably ... but somehow, something about it seems strange. they way they're reacting to us existing ...

Someone told me once that they didn't know much about us. I think that might have changed now, though.

Probably. I wonder why they care, though ...

They might know something we don't!

But they probably aren't going to tell us if asked, I'd guess. that'd be way too easy

Probably not... though, there are some very smart people who have connected to this network. Together we'll be able to figure something out.

Are you the type that is very optimistic ?

Oh, um, maybe? But it seems like it'd be difficult to figure out if we don't work together.

Too many people can also make things too complicated.

That makes me wonder about how many people are actually connected. I don't think we've managed to get a number for that.

Well ... there are also probably a lot of people who can connect, but don't.

Most of the people here all seem to be from the same place, at least.

That's true! ... Huh. I never thought about that before. All from Locke... You're really smart!

Not especially ...

It's just, it stuck out a little ...

That was really perceptive though! I hadn't even thought of that... I wonder what it means.