...The Lifestream is part of everything living. It's what souls are made of, and things like life and magic and memories and emotions, and what makes it possible for Planets to be Planets and stars to be stars. It's a part of us, and we're part of it. It's... it's in the core of the Planet, but it's also a place that isn't a place. Like another world, but not, and the Lifestream is just what brings you there. -Scratches his neck-
...When someone is born, a part of the Lifestream is given to them. It's what keeps them alive, and it's what becomes their soul. When they die, it returns to the Planet. The memories and emotions are lost, but the Lifestream is always there, and it flows through the Lifestream and becomes a part of something or someone else. And one day that returns to the Planet too, to begin the whole thing over again.
...
Maybe I'm not part of it anymore. Maybe that's why I can't go back.
-Seems to think about this-
Well. Scientifically, I don't suppose that they are. But neither is a story, or a song, or a god, and I know that they can all die.
All humans are, really, is a bunch of chemicals and self-replicating proteins. What makes that "alive"?
Your mother may have been a virus, but if you are the same, she was a virus that could think. Act. Ultimately, what is the difference between one set of self-replicating proteins and another?
...I guess you're right.
...-Goes back to eating, having cheered up slightly-
...There are lots of things I think I could find out, but it's... it's buried, I think. It's there. They woke it up. But there are so many things over it it gets hard to remember that.
edited 7th May '15 1:42:51 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist-Jack is upstairs, messing with his gun while staring at the mirror-
Bam.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?It's loud, and messy and full of people. Quite a lot of them idiots, but that seems to be a universal constant.
"People" includes quite a few races. From the ghouls to vampires, to golems, to humans, to dwarves... really, it's a wonder that it survives as it does.
And then there are the other entities. The gods, big and small. Plenty of them stupid too. There are the ideas that make sure that the sun rises instead of a flaming ball of gas. And other things.
edited 7th May '15 1:07:55 AM by ThanatoSeraph
-By the way how loud was the "bam" Norm?-
-Trying to work a way to bring Jack in if you like-
-If not never mind-
Of course, it is not always a nice place. But I think that if you try to hide reality from children, all you get are adults who have been taught to lie to themselves about reality. Not the good lies, either.
So I teach.
edited 7th May '15 1:12:15 AM by ThanatoSeraph

...I'm not any of them. I was made using parts of Mother. And now She's gone. So I guess I'm Mother now.
...
I don't know anymore. A long time. The files said four thousand years at least, and then a little before I came back here the Strangers had me, but I don't know for how long. Or maybe they were after. I don't know. Everything started to blur together after a while.