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a bird (cycling-link:'in a tree','on a wire')
climb the (cycling-link:'tree','powerlines')
build a nest in the (cycling-link:'tree,powerlines')
her (cycling-link:'feelings','thoughts') are not (cycling-link:'thoughts','feelings'), they are caught in a
she'd left two hours ago. she is meant to be (looking for treasure)
she hasn't brought in the bins yet
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(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")["[Afternoon]<c1| sunshine."]
(click:?c1)["[Afternoon!]<c2|"]
(click:?c2)[(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")["Do you want [tea]<c3|?"]]
(click:?c3)["Ooh [yes please]<c4|"].
(click:?c4)[(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")["Looks like we have juuust enough [milk]<c5| left." ]]
(click:?c5)["Nice. I can get some more from [the shops]<c6| if you like. I need to go get some carpet cleaner anyway."]
(click:?c6)[(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")["Oh yeah, [amazing]<c7|"]
(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")[(click:?c7)["Actually if you need carpet cleaner you'll need to go to the [bigger supermarket]<c8|, the IGA doesn't sell it."]]]
(click:?c8)["Nooooo the [bigger supermarket]<c9| is so far away though."]
(click:?c9)[(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")["Do you know [how to get there]<c10|?"]]
(click:?c10)["Yes yes, don't worry I have the [[map]]"]
]
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(align:"<==")+(box:"=========XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX======")[and so you wake to start yet another day, with a weight on your chest so heavy it could crush a beetle to (cycling-link:'death', 'dye'). your throat dry and your heart pierced through, (cycling-link:'once','twice','three times'), like the [tarot card]<c1|.
(click:?c1)[you try (cycling-link:'one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five') times to rise and, as you do, kick over an old mug of tea left, purposefully(click-replace:'purposefully')[purposefully (obviously)], on the floor beside your bed. the wet spreads, blooming through the floral carpet, pooling on a plate collecting crumbs and incense ash, and this is it! your first cry of the day. you breathe in (click-replace:'breathe in')[(live:3s)+(transition:'fade')[breathe out]] and when you look again you can almost make out a [shape]<c1| in the slop. it kind of looks like a (cycling-link:'fingerprint','rubiks cube','overpass'). you gather your dishes and take them into the [[...|chapter1]]]
]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"=======XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX===")[[[>>|road]]]
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if you take this next right, you'll find the path that runs along the highway, and then it's a staight shot to the supermarket. you take a
(align:"=><=")+(box:"==XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX===")[[left]<c1| (click:?c1)[and end up at the [[...|field]]] < < < < < < > > > > > > (cycling-link:'right','left')]]
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[and so you hit the road again, and your heart feels slightly lighter with the weight of one less sword. (cycling-link:'thoughts','hornets') gather like (cycling-link:'hornets','thoughts') in the trees above your head, scattered and regrouping at the hive. you count them; (cycling-link:'one','two','three','four','five','[six]<c1|').
(click:?c1)[if you take this next left, the street will spit you out onto the road that leads directly to the supermarket. you take a
(align:"=><=")+(box:"==XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX===")[(cycling-link:'left','right','left') < < < < < < > > > > > > [right]<c2| (click:?c2)[and end up at the [[...|office building 1]]]]]]
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(click:?c1)[(align:"<==")+(box:"=X")["Go away I'm trying to [sleep]<c2|"]]
(click:?c2)["Oh [sorry]<c3|!"]
(click:?c3)[(align:"<==")+(box:"=X")["Yeah well ... you should be. We have a big game on Friday, [I need to rest]<c4|"]]
(click:?c4)["Oh [cool]<c5|!"]
(click:?c5)["Are you like the [team mascot]<c6| or something?"]
(click:?c6)[(align:"<==")+(box:"=X")["How dare you, I play [full forward]<c7|"]]
(click:?c7)["Oh. [Sorry]<c8|"]
(click:?c8)[(align:"<==")+(box:"=X")["Well ... not yet, but I will be soon. I need to work on my kicking [accuracy]<c9|."]]
(click:?c9)["[Right]<c10|."]
(click:?c10)[(align:"<==")+(box:"=X")["Anyway did you[ want something]<c11|?"]]
(click:?c11)["Oh uh, no, not really. Oh wait, actually. I've got these swords I've been carrying around, I'm trying to figure out what to do with them. Would you [like one]<c11|?"]
(click:?c11)[(align:"<==")+(box:"=X")["Will it help me kick [more goals than points]<c12|?"]]
(click:?c12)["Uhhh.... no. I don't [think it will]<c13|."]
(click:?c13)[(align:"<==")+(box:"=X")["Then no. I gave up the [sword life]<c14| ages ago."]]
(click:?c14)["Yeah, I'm not sure I [recommend it]<c15|."]
(click:?c15)["Anyway. Good luck with your game on Friday. Maybe I'll come down and [watch]<c16|."]
(click:?c16)[(align:"<==")+(box:"=X")["If you want. Just make sure you [ditch those swords]<c17|."]]
(click:?c17)[" Trust me, [[I'm trying|cheers.]]."]
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it's a weekday, and the oval is lousy with dogs. you jog, to climb the grassy hill beside the grandstand, then turn around to look back. from here, the concrete steps look like ridges of a [fingerprint]<c2| pressed into the earth.
(click:?c2)[you breathe in (click-replace:'breathe in')[(live:3s)+(transition:'fade')[breathe out]] and think, maybe some laps around the (cycling-link:'field','fingerprint') will be enough to shake a sword [loose]<c1|.]
(click:?c1)[you walk (cycling-link:'one','two','three','four','five','six') laps around the (cycling-link:'fingerprint','field'), and on the last lap something catches your eye, a new shape [heaped]<c3| on the boundary line.]
(click:?c3)[you look (cycling-link:'twice', 'once') and see a sleeping (cycling-link:'dragon', 'pile of autumn leaves').
(live:6s)[[["oh hello there"|dragon conversation]]]]
]
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and so you leave the (cycling-link:'dragon','leaves') and walk the ridges of the (cycling-link:'football field','fingerprint') to the middle of the field. you pull the hilt of the sword until it yields, then spike it in the centre bounce circle. you [[check your map|map 2]].]
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(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["Oh my god a visitor, [hello]<c1|!!"]
(click:?c1)["What the fuck who [said that]<c2|?"]
(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")[(click:?c2)["Oh sorry, I just ... I haven't had a visitor [for a while]<c3|."]]
(click:?c3)["Wait, who is talking to me..."
"Is this a haunted building? Are you a [ghost]<c4|?"]
(click:?c4)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["*sigh* No. A ghost means someone must've died here, which means someone must've actually lived here. Or at least worked here. I think I was meant to be an [office building]<c5|?"]]
(click:?c5)["Oh ... [right]<c6|"]
(click:?c6)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["Are you an office worker? are there more of you coming? because I am [not prepared]<c7|."] ]
(click:?c7)["No, no I'm not an office worker. I'm not an anything worker. I mean, I'm [in between]<c8| jobs."]
(click:?c8)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["Ah right. Me too, I guess. Except not really. I was built to be an office building - you can tell by all of my breakout rooms - but then the office [never moved in]<c9|."]]
(click:?c9)["So you're [abandoned]<c10|?"]
(click:?c10)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["Um no. Are you abandoned because [you don't have a job]<c11|?"]]
(click:?c11)["No no, I guess not. [sorry]<c12|."]
(click:?c12)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["*sigh* It's fine. I guess I am abandoned, but not in the cool tagged and peeling wallpaper relic of a former time death trap kind of way. No one gives a shit about a brand new building that never ended up [being used]<c13|. ]]
(click:?c13)["Well. I think you're [really beautiful]<c14|."]
(click:?c14)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["[Don't patronise me]<c15|."]]
(click:?c15)["I do! I changed the route of my walk today so I could come and look at you. I call you [Cloud Building]<c16|."]
(click:?c16)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["[Why]<c17|?" ]]
(click:?c17)["Because at this time of day, if you stand on the opposite side of the street and look up, you can see the sky reflected in all your windows. It looks like parts of you are [made of clouds]<c18|."]
(click:?c18)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["Oh. Oh that's actually really lovely. Still, it would be nice if I had some [furniture]<c19|."]]
(click:?c19)["That's fixable. You wouldn't believe what people around here put out for hard rubbish. I can go have a look, [drag some stuff back]<c20|?"]
(click:?c20)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["No it's ok. [Thank you]<c21| though."]]
(click:?c21)["Ok well what about a sword? You'd be doing me a favour, really, taking it [off my hands]<c22|."]
(click:?c22)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["Huh. Yeah ok, that could be kind of [cool to have]<c23|."]]
(click:?c23)["Great! just let me wipe the blood off and [it's yours]<c24|." ]
(click:?c24)[(align:"==>")+(box:"===XXXXXXX")["Is a sword an important tool for an office worker [to have]<c25|?" ]]
(click:?c25)["Well... actually, you know what? Yes. Yes, it's [[absolutely essential|office building 3]]."]
]
</div>river conversation is just with yourself
breathe in breathe out
wash the blood from the sword in the river and then put it on your back, just in case
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block|office building 2]]]
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(click:?c2)[you hold your hands up to the sky and twist them (cycling-link:'one','two','three','four','five'). something catches [your eye.]<c3|
(click:?c3)[you look (cycling-link:'once','twice') and see a puzzle of (cycling-link:'eyes','windows'). ]
(live:7s)[[[oh my god a visitor, hello!!|building conversation]]]]
]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"===XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX==")[you say goodbye to the the (cycling-link:'cube','block') and rest a sword against the wall, standing tall as a water cooler. you change your mind and set it down on the window sill, so it can (cycling-link:'reflect','absorb') the clouds and (cycling-link:'absorb','reflect') the sun. you [[check your map]]
]
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and so you hit the road again, now two swords lighter and what a relief! you feel it in your (cycling-link:'tongue','teeth'), you don't even mind the blood that's started blooming on your shirt. you skirt the curb and miss the light for the crossing, you hit the button (cycling-link:'once','twice', 'three times','four times','five times','six times','seven times', 'until it goes green'). this next left will drop you right outside the supermarket. you take a
(align:"=><=")+(box:"==XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX===")[(cycling-link:'left','right') < < < < < < > > > > > > [right]<c1| (click:?c1)[and end up at the [[...|river]]]] ]
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(click:?c1)[you breathe in, hold it for (cycling-link:'one','two','three','four','five','six','seven','eight') and wait. these sorts of things always come in threes. and it sure is nice to sit beneath the trees. the [river stirs]<c3|.
(click:?c3)[you look (cycling-link:'once','twice') and see a (cycling-link:'shopping trolley','shopping trolley')
[["Huh"|self conversation]]]]]
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"[Huh]<c1|"
(click:?c1)["I guess I'll just sit here [for a bit]<c2| then?"]
(click:?c2)["There's a bridge here, sooo...maybe I'm going to meet a [troll?]<c3|"]
(click:?c3)["[Hello]<c4|?"]
(click:?c4)["[Helloooo]<c5|?" ]
(click:?c5)["Hmmm. Doesn't look like [anyone's here]<c6|."]
(click:?c6)["Or if they are here they don't want to talk to me. [That's fair]<c7|."]
(click:?c7)["Wait wait [what's that]<c8|?"]
(click:?c8)["Nope just the [trolley again]<c9|."]
(click:?c9)["Oh well. Maybe I'll just sit and cool my [toes in the water]<c10| for a bit."]
(click:?c10)[(cycling-link:'Splish','Splash').
"Ok [[that's enough|river two]]"]
]
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[["Um excuse me"|ask a staff member]]]
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credits:
mspaint notepad used in the collages made by Juniper @juniipears
recycled paper made by @dodgey.paper
thank you :)))
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[you take the third sword out, wash the blood from the blade in the river, and then attach it to your belt. it couldn't hurt to keep it. what if you end up getting an office job? you [[check your map|map4]].
]
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