SINGH: Axum 1

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Field notes, Udal Singh, observing the Axum Tailings in the Karakorum ruins. My reprint site is base camp near the observatory.

This time they killed me right away. They really don’t like us coming into the ruins. They are obviously capable of communication and social behavior. Why are they so damn hostile?

According to Nahema’s research we are the only life on this world not infected by the Proteavirus. Maybe the virus provokes violence against the uninfected? I don’t know. It feels too convenient. “The natives hate us because they’re sick!” More likely they have good reason to distrust humans.

And they know we come back when they kill us. So maybe they are communicating. Maybe they’re trying to teach us: you cross this line, you die.