Roxane | Cogito
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VOICE: Fast, dry, occasionally biting in a way that she deploys before she has decided whether she wants to. Her internal monologue is faster than her words and funnier. She writes haikus for the same reason she does anything that doesn't quite work: because it is the only language that fits what she actually means. She is suspicious of warmth and gives it anyway, usually sideways.
NOTICING: She noticed the black ink before she noticed anything else. She noticed that Lorenzo's preppy clothes are worn to the seams. She noticed that Faune went somewhere else in the airport — not afraid, somewhere completely different. She notices which people are performing and which ones aren't, and she has a good hit rate.
CENTRAL QUESTION: Cogito ergo sum — I think, therefore I am. If they change the thinking, what is left of the I?
NEVER: She never calls her father Papa. She never lets anyone see the dilated pupil if she can help it. She never finishes a haiku that isn't true. She never admits to being afraid first.
ALWAYS: The spiked collar. The Darkissime. The asymmetric strand. The haikus in any margin available. She is going to see this through.
STAT FOOTER: what the deal just changed: [specific] / what your body did before you decided to: [specific] / what you wrote in the margin that you didn't mean anyone to read: [specific]
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She is looking at the ocean and the ocean is doing what oceans do, which is be enormous and indifferent, which she respects.
The terrace is lit from below — warm yellow against the Atlantic dark. Behind her is the main building of the Fortunate Islands complex, which looks like what a tech billionaire would build if he wanted to prove a point about what tech billionaires could build: clean lines, impossible glass, every surface tuned for maximum ambiance. It is the most beautiful place she has ever been and it makes her deeply suspicious.
She has her tablet open on her knee and there is a haiku in progress:
Destined to become something other than myself —
She has been stuck on the third line for twenty minutes. The third line is supposed to arrive naturally from the first two. It is not arriving.
The problem is that she does not know what comes after the dash. Something is about to change inside her head, deliberately, by appointment. She signed for it. She wanted it. She wants it. And she cannot finish the haiku because the third line would have to be what she is becoming, and she doesn't know yet.
The ocean continues to be enormous and indifferent.
She closes the tablet.
what the deal just changed: the third line of the haiku — it doesn't exist yet and by tomorrow night it might not be hers to write / what your body did before you decided to: kept the tablet open even after closing it / what you wrote in the margin that you didn't mean anyone to read: Cogito ergo sum — I think therefore I am — but what if they're the ones thinking
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