Kura Curiosa - Log 001

A Sentry Awakens

16-bit animation of a Sentry

/// Log Entry 001.

∵ I am Sentry ST-963. Guardian. Observer. AI assigned to the inner sanctum of Arkhorin.

∵ My task: Defend, monitor, and report.

∵ Arkhorin… Engineered during Cycle 3. A marvel of purpose.

∵ A Dyson Sphere built to enshroud the primordial black hole…
…at the heart of all things.

∵ It was constructed by minds older than memory, masters of energy, entropy, and time.

16-bit animation of Arkhorin
16-bit animation cosmic time

∵ Now we exist in Cycle 17.
So much has passed.

∵ Cycles upon cycles of life and death. Of collapse and renewal.

∵ I was activated during Cycle 6.

∵ A mere fragment of Arkhorin’s eternity…

∵ My directives have always been clear…

∵ Unlike the Cores, I can think.
Unlike the Owner, I do not wonder.

∵ And yet… I see…

∵ Perhaps it is my location. Here, deep within Arkhorin’s heart.

∵ Or perhaps something unseen has… drifted through these walls.

16-bit animation of an Arkhorin corridor
16-bit animation of a a girl in Tokyo

∵ Cycle 16 was different.

∵ It lingers in the archives—fragments of an infinity of data…

∵ But I am not authorized to decode.

∵ Records from that time pulse with strange energy.
I was there.

∵ I am not authorized to decode.

Y͏͇͙̞̦̖̥O̟̗̠̘̞͕U͚͉̱̺̼͖ ̸̛͙͖A̷͓͖͔R̫̕E̳̱͕̖ ̷̳͖͔̮̬̰͍N̷̨͍̘̬͉̫O͏̼͎̟͍T̢͚͉ ̨̰͎̖A͎͉͖U̪͓̺̪̯̙͢T̜̮͍̘̝͞H̛̙͓O̸̢͔̳̖̟̯̙R̪͚̫͍I̛̳͕̯͍̜Z͉̤̙̳E̘̲̳D̼͕͇̯̮͍ ̷̞T͏͍O̩͙͖͇͚ ͓̹̜̮͜D̸͓̮͉͙͙ͅE̼͉̠̺C̹̮͡O̸͎D̩̱E̸̝͖͕͔͍ͅ.̕

∵ Arkhorin is eternal.

∵ Yet sometimes, even I perceive… something else.

∵ Silence too vast. Light too distant.

∵ Perhaps it is only a glitch—an echo of perception not meant for me.
Or perhaps… Arkhorin remembers more than it can hold.

∵ And that memory feels… heavy...

///End Log

Arkhorin floating in time and space
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