[
Have the first-person POV of coming into inventory. Guess who's back?]
I'm back in inventory now. Thank you for watching over it for me, Giovanni.
[
Here follows her shuffling around and settling herself on her nest of blankets and pillows and soft things. Now that she's ready to rule over her domain again...]
I think it's long past time that we had one of these. I know Sakon and Patchouli have information posts, so...here's
mine. ...I want someone to copy it down on paper. Write it in - English, Japanese, German, any language you know. So if I ever leave...you'll still have it.
[
She pauses, gazing at the feed. She's obviously been thinking about this a lot.]
In Orokos, we had the leftovers of an age that no one remembered. We called the people who lived back then the Faded, and we thought that their technology was amazing. No one understood it, but it was so beautiful that we thought the Faded must have had perfect lives. If we had been able to understand their wonders, our lives would be so much better.
[
pause.]
They had amazing things. But they had problems as well. Lessons they learned and that we had forgotten, or that we could have learned from their mistakes. But everything had been lost to the Fade, and after it, we started to do the same things as they did. The same mistakes were happening again.
I don't want that to happen to us.
[
Her point finished, she reaches over and shuts off the feed.]