CLASSIFICATION

Indeterminate Entity / Faulty-Connection Type

STATE

Observation Ongoing

NAME

MATI

APTERA_NOTE

Brown skin, and a cap pulled low, with a cross, a triangle and a circle lined up along its brim. Above her head floats a little window with her name written inside it. To go about holding up one's own name like that — she must be dreadfully afraid of being forgotten.

Cables wind around her arms and legs, with power plugs left dangling at the ends. Nothing is plugged into anything, and still the power pours steadily out of her; I have yet to see her stand still. She has no intention of stopping it — there is more than enough of it, her face says, so naturally some spills.

Of the three, this one is apparently the eldest sister. She leads the way and is usually the first to get lost, handing over everything she knows, including all that nobody asked for. Still, the hands that look after the other two are the genuine article — it galls me, but I will set it down. To have more than enough is simply to be badly contained. At my size, there is nothing to spill in the first place.

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