A Series of Parallel Events

The following is an excerpt from the diary of one Amelia Green, a young girl from the early victorian era with a mind imaginative enough to create whole worlds.

Dear Diary,

War passed for them today, I wish there was something I could do, I never anticipated that we’d return, that we’d survive even. I’ll have to make sure we go extinct in the next iteration. I couldn’t stand watching them fight, over nothing, we return to our homeland, and what do we greet them with? Destruction. We made them, does that give us the right to kill them too? Even though they’re not completely perfect yet, I still love them, I never wanted to see this.

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Mother advised that I spend more time with Thomas over the summer, I don’t want to, but I suppose I will eventually have to get to know him anyway. I don’t want to tell mother the truth that I don’t want to be married, I’m not certain how she’d take it. I want to use my life as a greater force for knowledge, not another housewife.

I was reading up on old mythological creatures earlier, I think I found how to completely rid ourselves for them, a Wendigo. It’s a creature that feeds on greed, normally through possessing people who’ve committed that of murder, turning them into cannibals. According to most records, it would seem they also cause coldness around them, like a block of ice.

I’ve decided these would be perfect for the next iteration inside Iota, assuming they do exist of course.

I’m hoping I’ll be able to catch a wendigo to make a new copy in Boston, perhaps even three so I can perform tests. I should really be packing my things for the ship tomorrow, but I won’t be able to take you with me, so you’re going to stay here in London for the next few months. I can’t wait to write in you and tell you about my time there, for now, Boston awaits.

This was the last entry of the diary, a few weeks after Amelia’s arrival in Boston, she went missing. And a year later, her body was found over 400 miles west, next to Lake Erie, her body was found near a strange figure. Reports say her corpse was being eaten by a human with no eyes, skin void of all moisture pulled tightly over its bones. These features do indeed match up with the beast she was trying to capture, but why it chose her as a victim, we still do not know.

In recent years, an effort has been made to decipher her possessions, holographic recordings have been made, but like nothing we’ve ever seen, these are extraordinarily detailed picturing an entire planet. When people say she had an imaginative mind, we had no idea it was at this scale.