Fig. 1a: To Begin Again; from the End

The Challenger enters from somewhere in the depths of the American ruin.
All that is left, this lone warrior, cold and defiant, powerful and hostile, protector and vigilante. The only survivor of the police state, frozen with fear, twisted with terror reports on TV screens, obscured by death shrouds stamped with his nation’s seal of approval.
Pulled back through a million years of war and predation, parasitism, dominance, morality, pulled back through a million years of opposing urges to both protect and to destroy, he is lost and unprepared now. This is a world he had not expected. And yet, he is not afraid.

The Psychedelic arrives from somewhere within the depths of the completed ruin of the Roman Colloseum.
Like the rabbit late for his important date, he was pulled through a frenzy that peaked in San Francisco, in the middle 1960’s. A very important time and place to be. Through the dazzling, confusing perceptual alterations set down by the pioneers of the mind, those wise ancestors who nibbled carefully on the flora and fauna of the earth, he finds himself suddenly far too clear-headed. Far too aware. And yet, like the other, he is not afraid.

The Dreamer arrives from complete and total oblivion.
Having been to the very edges of existence and back, pursued every minute possibility and allowed it to stagger her relatively fragile mind, contained within the byzantine conduits of her brain every single imaginable physical ability, this desert ruin seems horribly stale and irrelevant. The sky is not the beautiful amorphous being she had come to know and love.

And yet, none are afraid.
They all eye each other carefully. Eye the changes. In themselves, in the world, in the very grains of sand beneath their feet. Everything is different now. Everything is the same. Everything is silent noise and blind visionaries. Everything is wiped clean. Into the sea. Into the sky. Into the earth. Into everything, and nothing.

And why do they come here? |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||As opposed to where? It will not matter where.|||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Only how. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||And why.||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||And. And.

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