Functionary/Revolutionary
by feldman
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Functionary
As a child I tested at the metropolis. The first night there, from my window, I witnessed a Provincial Administrator rip apart her secretary just outside gateway to the Port Authority Complex.
The secretary's mistake was a negligible one, but had embarrassed the Administrator in public. Perhaps the Scarran had also been waiting for an excuse to replace a mediocre functionary or to instill more respect in the remaining members of her staff.
Even after the pieces stilled into death, they remained there for days. Whatever future training was assigned to me, I had already learned the most important lessons.
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Revolutionary
She will not be exactly like me. If that were so, she would not be capable of doing the things she must. She will be like me, but more dangerous and more courageous.
She will burn like fire and return to them, with interest, the viciousness they have deposited in my care since I was small. I relax and let the intelligent flesh surround me, read my genetic sequences and thought patterns.
Before she goes, I will twist her hair up in coils for her and kiss her. I smile her ferocious smile and imagine them falling at my feet.