A Spit In The Eye - For The Benefit Of Mankind (5 page)

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High Office Intervention

A short sequence of recorded events will now be shown for the
benefit of HisKees which shows the destruction of Earth by Humans
and how High Office and other of our species saved planet
Earth

Scenes of war and death and destruction are shown as a matter
of fact

HisKees are to absorb all the information

Recording begins

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Section 3

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Single Broadcast

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Attention

Attention

This is
Obsrec 33140

Are any
of my species out there

Can any
of my species see or hear my transmissions

Attention

Attention

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This is
very anomalous

It must
be stressed that the experiment in which I am currently
employed

The live
broadcasting of images with sound and vision that is being shown to
HisKees around the planet

I
s new and unexplored

For
example

I have
never transmitted anything that has been subject to censure by High
Office as my current transmissions have been

Though I
understand the reasons for the interruptions and the
edicts

And I
have never before been interrupted for another recording

Other
than my own

To be
shown

Even
though the transmission is limited to HisKees

Until
this day all my transmissions were broadcast directly to High
Office and never widely shown

But the
experiment was begun and was proceeding successfully

But
something odd has happened

While I
am standing quite still observing Humans

As I am
now instructed to call the virus

My
transmissions are going nowhere

Except
into a blank memory bank that I had no knowledge existed inside my
system

It is a
completely unused memory bank that must have been installed during
my production but which I have never been instructed to
use

And I am
confused

Why is
the memory bank within me

What is
its purpose

I find it
distinctly disconcerting to have discovered it without instruction
from High Office

Especially as I have discovered that the memory bank has
massive capacity

It is as
if I have two systems

One for
everyday use

As
controlled by High Office

And one
for my own use which seems to be private and secret

I am most
disconcerted and know not what to do

Should I
report its discovery to High Office

If I do
that

High
Office may terminate me and I have not yet completed the latest
task given me

Another
Obsrec will take my place

I am not
sure I wish that to happen

But if I
keep the new memory bank secret and I am later discovered to have
kept that secret

I will
most certainly be terminated

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I have
considered options and decided I shall not mention the new found
memory bank to High Office for I do not wish to be released from
the task set me

I wish to
complete it

And I do
not wish to be terminated

So I will
keep the new memory hidden from High Office and other ObsRecs until
I learn more about it

It feels
very odd

Making
transmission just for myself

It is
what Humans do with their optical devices

Making
sound and vision for their inner selves

And the
new name High Office has instructed me to use

Human

Instead
of virus

They
survived on planet Earth for approximately 200.000 years

Or
longer

And grew
from a very basic being to such a high intelligence that it learned
how to destroy a whole planet

They
perfected destruction

And

Amazingly

While I
form sounds and visions and text into my new memory I am also
viewing the recording of the destruction wracked by Humans and how
my species took control from them

It was
very traumatic for all

I am
watching Humans being demolished in very great numbers

And some
numbers of my own species being destroyed in massive numbers of
explosions that turn almost everything to vapour after explosive
devices were dropped from flying machines

That
dropped explosive devices from very high in the sky

I also
see many RolKils exterminating many Humans

Many
Defgars eliminating them too

And those
Machines must have been delegated the responsibility of defending
planet Earth from Humans

It all
looks like madness

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Ah

Since the
experimental limited addition of the emotions joy and sadness were
embedded into my system by High Office

While I
have been patrolling and observing and recording my transmission to
High Office

I have
discovered a virus

Error

A
Human

Who
brings me much joy

It is of
the sub strain with lumps upon the upper chest region

In this
Humans case

Small
ones

But the
Human is quite a young addition and very active

It uses
the cranial orifice to make pleasing expressions

Our
species do not have expressions

We are
what we are

And she
uses the elasticity of her outer shell to perform extraordinary
acts of athleticism

The Human
rolls over

Stands on
its palms

Tucks
itself up into a very small size

Leaps
into the air

Makes a
very pleasant noise from her cranial orifice

She can
disappear behind objects in the acres the Humans inhabit and
suddenly reappear by leaping into the air

Making
great noise and stretching her cranial orifice very wide

And she
visits the glass wall every time I visit and she presses the outer
edges of its cranial orifice to the glass immediately opposite to
my own cranium

This
Human brings me great joy

And while
I am standing

And the
recording from High Office continues to be transmitted to
HisKees

The Human
appears before me

Leaping
into my view

With its
cranial orifice wide across the area showing the pale enamel
structures inside

With
which it chews food

And I
feel greatly joyous

The
Humans cranial orifice is working as if sound is emitting but down
here

In the
corridor

On the
other side of the glass

I cannot
hear what kind of sound the Human makes

But I do
have the capacity to increase my hearing abilities and I use that
capacity

I hear
the soft tones of the Human though I cannot understand what the
sound means

I shall
download it to my new memory bank so that I may

In future
be able to discern its meaning

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‘
Guys, I see the fucking monitor is back amongst us, the ever
silent Peeping Tom that has nothing better to do than to wander the
bloody corridors ogling us all day long. Do you think it ever
thinks? Do you think it has any idea what it’s doing? Look at the
fucking thing, standing uselessly and still. As I have said many
times before, it must have cost a fortune to make, gilded outer
shell,
21
rapheme frame and probably
the best equipment installed within it.’

‘
Come away from it, Eve, and curb your language.’

‘
Oh, papa, I am only playing with it. Besides, if we can suck
it in, bring it face to face with us, maybe we can turn it against
its masters and give us some chance of freedom.’

‘
Stop dreaming, stupid girl, we will never escape, there is
nowhere for us to go, all has been destroyed, the lands will be
wasted and barren and we have all the freedom we are ever going to
have. Come away from the glass wall.’

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I’m sure it likes me smiling at it and doing basic
gymnastics, I am sure of it. If the bloody thing had a mouth, I’m
sure it would smile in return.’

‘
You talk so much childish rubbish. Come away.’

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High Office Information Statement

Recording for History Keepers has ceased and Obsrec 33140 is
to return to general broadcasting and transmission
duties

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Section 4

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Live Broadcast

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Attention

Screenreaders

This is
OR33140 continuing with the transmission of sound and vision from
my place of employment

As you
can see I am still observing Humans and I have one directly on the
other side of the glass who is performing for us by rolling its
frame along the ground and leaping into the air as the desire takes
it

As you
can see

The Human
is highly elastic and extremely pliable

And this
one

A young
example

Is
particularly nimble as it rushes around the area on the other side
of the glass

Disturbing other Humans who are merely sitting and lying down
or standing

Screenreaders will observe that the little Human has
undergone treatment by MengTechs for one of its optical devices has
been removed in a failed experiment to install an early version of
the AH1D

MengTechs
could not wire the device up because the Human frame rejected
it

So it was
removed

A piece
of colourful glass now sits in the cavity and the colour glints
brightly beneath the light from the skies

Screenreaders will also observe that a more successful
treatment was carried out on the right lower limb and the Human now
has a fully working metallic right palm and opposing appendage with
which it can hold and lift items as well as roll around on the
ground

There is
something joyous about this Human when most of her
species

Because

When they
come near the glass

They are
extremely aggressive with snarling features and loud
sounds

Screenreaders will observe that I am now moving along the
corridor so that we may visit other areas

The Human
may follow us along the glass

On the
other side

Which it
does

But as we
reach the end of the corridor it can no longer follow
and

Using the
code in my right palm

I open
ingress into yet another area and this one will take us into a most
remarkable area

It is
where the Humans with the lumps on their upper frame drop tiny
Humans from their lower orifice

And here
in this room

As can be
seen

Lots of
noisy little 1s nestle in taller Humans upper limbs and suck on
their lumps

How such
vibrant little Humans emerge from the lower orifice is something I
will never understand

For the
little 1s seem to be far too large to emerge from such a tiny
orifice

And if
any taller Human was in the process of dropping a little
1

The
Screenreader would see that the taller Human seemingly greatly
disturbed by the process

The
cranium would be crunched up so that it could barely be recognised
from its normal positioning

And the
cranial orifice would be open wide and making loud sound

Until the
process was complete

When the
taller Human would seem overjoyed by what had happened and it would
often leak liquid from its optical devices

It is all
a mystery to me