Fall Equinox

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Music=
1. I Don't Care- Ramones

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.'
- Confucius

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I. Prague

"I run from the rule of our First Citizen. I look for those who oppose his control- as I do. Are you one of us?"

The musician anxiously looked at Astira, waiting nervously for her reply.

The emotional shell of Astira stood bare and frozen in a den of winter snow. But in fiery color of autumn leaves, her deeper pattern of thoughts traced over all possible outcomes branching out from her reply.

II. Paris

At night the chaotic events of the day tumbled in the grey shadows of the Count's mind. He rose from his chair below the stars and greeted the Princess- her Yin diamond a perfect night of hidden dream. She spoke softly- but in strange words foreign to his understanding. And then he opened his eyes to the early light of morning.

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Scatter Brain

Mule

"We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day;"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley 1

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I. Far East

The Dragon turned away from his possibility tree and looked upon his daughter. An orphan of chaos, she survived as the Empire lost control over the worlds of the Far East. For the last 21 millennia the Empire ruled, stealing much of the wealth and priceless treasure built up from the time of ancient dynasties, some predating the Empire itself. The legendary lost diamond of Yang- one luminary example in this regard.

"Yes, I just received word from Astira. I believe she is in great danger. There is no one she can trust. The Second Foundation is destroyed, at least in the Euro & Central Sectors."

"I see." said the Dragon.

"Yes, I wish to travel to the Euro Sector and help her find the Second Foundation- if it still exists."

The Dragon looked at the Dragonfly but only saw his daughter. She had barely escaped the Empire- and now this?

II. Prague

"Fair young Lady- Time spent well doth sow a treasure of roses. Perchance thine spare but one carefree seed for Time's Fool?"

And the deranged puppet smiled in uncertain lines.

The shell of Astira smiled back, amused by the fancy language. But her deeper pattern of thoughts hid in the external memory of correlated atoms and molecules in her surroundings- her deeper emotions changed color in flashes of autumn leaves.

"OK. But what you want from Astira?" she asked. And she stared at the puppet through her curious mask.

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Up Close

Musicians

Music=
1. Come A Little Closer-
 Cage The Elephant
2. Ascending Guitars (Sadlands Demo)-
 Smashing Pumpkins

"If I understand change, I shall make no great mistake in life."-Confucius



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I. Prague
Astira sensed the danger. She felt the intruder within her mind, searching her deepest thoughts & emotion. She recognized the infinite despair of pure evil- but now she had changed. She let everything go, she became one with everything around her. Astira's pattern of thought no longer existed- only the atoms & molecules of her body. Her pattern of thoughts hid in the humble grasses, hid in the slowly turning leaves of autumn, & remained invisible in the blankness of pure Zen. She watched the intruder play with the thoughts she left behind- she watched the shell of herself talk with this Musician of Darkness.

II. Far East
What if?" thought the Dragon. Intricate branches of possibility formed a graphic tree on his computing screen. There were no Seldon probabilities- normal psychohistory no longer applied- a new abnormal psychological force swept through the galaxy, something no one in the Second Foundation planned for.
"Yes, Father- I wish to have a word with you." said the Dragonfly, softly entering the room, as if she were a child's dream.

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