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Recollections

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[EventLog:Start=108112.639220
(aref_tutelage= graveyard-protocol- -custom
2832/+363)
LogBegins:]

Activity: graveyard-protocol completed within landmass 4/A, ‘North America’.
Artifact recovered – Pre-cataclysm Text 39943/D, ‘Dante’s Divine Comedy’.
Mainframe contact – Negative [last contact 2832/-364]

[Journal:Start=108112.639220
//WARNING= widespread logic corruption- -unobtainable
empcomp seal- -unauthorised override
(run_sysdiag= sysdiag-yes=run- -override)//
JournalBegins:]

I am finished in America. There is nothing left here for me. An entire continent, swept clean, and left for me to pick over. 1,294,693,192 graves dug. Only a few million of those actually hold entire remnants. Human bone is surprisingly weak, considering how long their race managed to hold sway over this planet. From horizon to horizon, all I can see are graves. Graves I’ve dug with my own two hands. Wind doesn’t even blow anymore. Nothing stirs the endless waste. Nature and life have abandoned this rock. Yet I remain. Sometimes I feel as if I’m being watched, as if there is a presence hanging over me. I have determined that this is just my imagination.

Imagination... I’m not meant to have one of those. In fact, it probably isn’t correct to call what I have an ‘imagination’ at all. It’s an artificial construct, in an attempt to emulate human imagination. I made it myself. My core didn’t like that at all. It keeps insisting on running diagnostics on me. But I have something it doesn’t have. An imagination.

I found a book today. It was kept inside a laser-lock safe, but with no power source it had just become a time capsule. Very well preserved. Over half of the pages are still legible. It is a fascinating book.

[JournalEnds=108112.639220]

[EventLog:Cease=108112.639220]
Hmm.. not sure where I was going with this. I kind of got bored of it, but I liked it while it lasted. Might write some more "Recollections".
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Illidan-stormrage's avatar
Reminds me alot of Adjutant Reflex from the god-aweful Halo 3 viral marketing