Chapter Eight Page 26
Oct24
on October 24, 2012
at 8:39 PM
Chapter: Chapter Eight
Characters: Sharon Applebaum, Sparrow Applebaum
Sparrow: The reason I’m bringing this all up is . . . okay, how much do you know about Beings?
Sparrow (thinking): Got to explain as much as I can without giving Patrick away.
Mrs. Applebaum: Like that rabbit that caused all the fuss at South Station?
One long explanation (and a shower) later . . .
Sparrow: So it turns out I can see their fights. And apparently that’s weird.
Mrs. Applebaum: Well, you certainly don’t get it from my side. You don’t think your sperm donor could have been a Being, do you?
Sparrow: No, Mom, it’s like I told you. They’re not fertile. I mean, they have the cells and stuff, but when anyone takes some to put under a microscope, they disintegrate into carbon.
Hmmmm…it’s possible a being is a very fuzzy creature, in that it’s like light, both corporeal and incorporeal simultaneously until observed.
English is not my native language, but I don’t think “corporeal” and “incorporeal” are the right words to describe the duality between particle and wave … which is actually valid for ANY particle, it’s just easiest to study it on light.
Also, you don’t need microscope to observe something in the quantum mechanics sense. Whatever is doing the disintegrating thing must be more complicated. I suppose there were lot’s of studies just about this phenomen … doesn’t mean they found anything, but negative results are results too :-)
I find the fact that Sharon still cuts Sparrow’s hair totally adorable.
I am still holding onto the idea that the “sperm” was all that remained of the being supposedly killed by the Nazies. (Normally for regenerative entities the largest part left behind is what regenerates and unless it is a duplicator the remaining mass dies or dissolves). So if this being were reduced to nothing but a small sample, then maybe that small sample would remain, and due to some passed down esoteric cult type deal (this would be a story detail which I can’t really guess on) but somehow it ended up as a sperm donor sample, and bing to the boom that was used and grew/regenerated in a fertile ground to produce Sparrow, and after such a traumatice regeneration total amnesia and temporary loss of abilities.
so what animal is she?a sparrow?
Nice job doing Sparrow’s hair. Also happy birtheve.
I wonder if this means we’ll see Sparrow with a new do. Also, the explanation of why the sperm of Beings can’t mix with a human is a good one: it goes to dust upon ejaculation.
It doesn’t explain how a female Being avoids getting pregnant, though, since their eggs stay inside them. Does human sperm turn to carbon on contact when it goes into them?
Also, do the porn studios that use Beings keep a steady supply of dust busters? >_>
Ok. Let’s see. There are two possibilities:
* One, the being will go through whole pregnancy, then gives birth, then the children reverts to carbon
* Two, there is some stage of getting pregnant beings deliberately emulate incorrectly. Ovulation, maybe.
but what if just nobody tries to observe them? then can they mate?
Haha, I have Sparrow’s exact haircut at the moment. Damn, I need a cut as well. Also, loving everyone’s theories on Sparrow’s origins in the comments. I have no doubt that the truth is much simpler and much more elegant, tho