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In the dream, you are shaping coarse sand with your hands. You lift a handful, and it feels like the shifting of mountains. You drag your fingertip through the dirt to make a twisting line and hear the roar of moving water. You breathe and feel the rush of clean, bright wind in your hair. | In the dream, you are shaping coarse sand with your hands. You lift a handful, and it feels like the shifting of mountains. You drag your fingertip through the dirt to make a twisting line and hear the roar of moving water. You breathe and feel the rush of clean, bright wind in your hair. | ||
Suddenly, you are far, far, far up in the air, higher than you've ever been. You have gone to the very top of Freehold's tallest skyscrapers, but this is much higher, and you see the world below with much greater fidelity. It is a beautiful green world, much greener than any place you've ever seen before. | Suddenly, you are far, far, far up in the air, higher than you've ever been. You have gone to the very top of [[Freehold]]'s tallest skyscrapers, but this is much higher, and you see the world below with much greater fidelity. It is a beautiful green world, much greener than any place you've ever seen before. | ||
It looks like home. | It looks like home. | ||
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Now, I stand before a crowd. Their murmuring is the bone-deep rumble of shifting tectonic plates. | Now, I stand before a crowd. Their murmuring is the bone-deep rumble of shifting tectonic plates. | ||
A screen behind me plays looping, blurry footage of the Traveler terraforming Venus. The images radiate with pale light. We've watched this footage many times. | A screen behind me plays looping, blurry footage of the [[Traveler]] terraforming [[Venus]]. The images radiate with pale light. We've watched this footage many times. | ||
|| I glide through space as if through water, tugged in nine directions by nine impulses. || | || I glide through space as if through water, tugged in [[nine]] directions by nine impulses. || | ||
In front of the crowd, I sway a little, a copse of trees bending in a dream-wind. I can't help it. I'm dreaming more often than not. | In front of the crowd, I sway a little, a copse of trees bending in a dream-wind. I can't help it. I'm dreaming more often than not. | ||
|| There is whispering from the deep-dark, alluring and terrifying—a reminder of things left behind, bittersweet and abhorrent. || | || There is whispering from the [[Black Fleet|deep-dark]], alluring and terrifying—a reminder of things left behind, bittersweet and abhorrent. || | ||
A crackle of static on the screen behind me brings me back to earth, resettling my feet firmly on the ground. These people have come here for my insights. | A crackle of static on the screen behind me brings me back to earth, resettling my feet firmly on the ground. These people have come here for my insights. | ||
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I lean forward and speak to the crowd. Four tenets, aching with truth: | I lean forward and speak to the crowd. Four tenets, aching with truth: | ||
The | The Traveler is a force of benevolence. | ||
The Traveler is a sentient being with free will, dreams, hopes, and fears. | The Traveler is a sentient being with free will, dreams, hopes, and fears. | ||