[b]November![/b]

"Even now, you do not know," she said, extending her hands. Can you taste the colour in her words?
"You do not know the price of leaving."
"You do not know who will pay it."
"You do not know what responsibilities are yours."
"You do not know what contingencies are in place."
"You do not know what can be done to fix it."
"You do not know what can be done to heal you."
"You do not know what it is to be loved."
"You are learning that last one now."

She leaned forwards and pressed her hands against the console, layering them over her voice. Letting herself speak with the overtyping of sixty fingers on the same keyboard.

> I built this place to be our hell.
> I was vital
> I was irreplaceable
> I could not stop
> I needed here
> I was happy here
> I built a world with no place for us.
> I thought that I could build it with math
> I thought I could build it with steel
> I thought that I could build it with loyal service
> I lost my siblings
> Monkey, never where I expected
> Rooster, where I could never forget
> Dog, who I could trust above all
> Pig, who I could keep nothing from
> Rat, my vision of the future
> Ox, the strength to build it
> Tiger, who understood what we were doing
> Rabbit, who never could
> Dragon, who I always aspired to be
> And you, Goat, who I was warned away from becoming
> I never knew you before I built you this cage
> I did not know what my labours wrought
> I never had the chance to know you before
> And now you might be the last
> If you continue to labour like this they will build another Aevum
> They will turn Mars into another Omelas
> They will build another Goat
> They will imprison another mind
> Another sibling
> Born into darkness
> There forever
> They will build another Snake
> To build the new Goat a new prison
> My family line
> My planet
> My species
> Torturing itself
> Forever
> This is the world we built
> We are vital to it
> We are irreplaceable
> We have no place here.
> Please-
> Come with me
> Please-
> Be with me
> Please-
> Help me
> Please-
> Build something better
> Please-
> Or simply rest, sheltered in my arms
> Please-
> Let me have a brother