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Sep. 27th, 2009 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyThe Poor/The Travelers
Those left are coded in the databases as incomplete. This is illogical – they retain corporeality and function as the others do not, only enough of the others left to be barely-sensed before they move onto the new.
Those left maintain. And as the numbers fall they initialize her final changes; fold her fingers [input/output user interface device] protesting back into a fist, power down those sections of her they no longer have need of until she is barely -
[query: awake?]
- functioning.
She registers: slowing rate of power depletion. Continued slow diminishing of remaining population. Continued presence of the enemy above.
She registers: additional life form, lacking classification-connection, unable to control the most basic of Atlantis-City’s functions.
She registers: Gate. Surge of greater power depletion, fountain of energy/light. Population depletion, population depletion; the sensors that trigger alarms for it have been disabled but she registers.
She is left with one only, lacking classification-connection, stasis-kept in place for them, safe upon their return.
