SENTIENCE - Chapter Five - Improv
The data seemed infinite. Every type of rock, every tiny plant, was something a scientist might eventually spend years, even decades studying. But I didn't know if or when something unexpected or catastrophic would happen to my mission, so I had to...
SENTIENCE - Chapter Four - Echo
I struggled to reply. Did I respond with my name, my species, my personality? Did I try to run? I doubted I could escape the creature if I tried, with how fast it was. I expressed my name. My full name. I spoke its audible part, and I displayed its...
SENTIENCE - Chapter Nine - Battle
What had that creature done to me? Every spike down my back flexed upright. My limbs gave way an instant later, my mind sluggishly following. I felt like entering the dreamworld of sleep backwards, fighting my way upstream. But is that where I was?...