taxonomites | [text | location: pool] dead winds' and spent waves' riot in doubtful dreams of dreams

It's an Olympic-size pool, water stretching on clear as glass for fifty meters—far enough, almost, to get lost swimming a lap. Gutters gouged into the sides slurp down the overflow; a faint, nearly subliminal buzz hangs in the muggy air. He plunges in and hacks his way down the lane, arms out of practice, lungs burning, legs kicking up a choppy wake. Sound recedes. He's robbed only of his gasps for air, the sporadic eruptions of coughing when he reaches a wall.

He fights through the first few laps and settles into a rhythm, keeping pace with the Extra a lane over until he lags behind (they never pull ahead—their strokes graceful or tortured, the Extras move implacably through the water). Thoughts come easier as he swims, easier and more fully formed than the shards he's usually tweezing out.

He flips onto his back and drifts, weightless.

When he climbs out it feels like he's still underwater. His eyes sting with chlorine. He towels off in the locker room, buttons his shirt and fastens his belt and straps his watch to his wrist. He taps out a message while slouched against the wall:

How have you been keeping busy?

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writing, not that it helps.

[ okay after a few days he's gotten better but this is still a chore. ]

Writing what?

stuff i think about, but i don't understand the language so it doesnt help much

English? You're using it now.

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typing is ok, it's writing with a pen i start doing the other thing. if i could type on paper i'd be ok

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video games

Have fun with that one, Don.

["Video" he understands; "game" he understands. Put the two together

--light a cigarette--

and...]

What?

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You know. Like Mario and whatnot.

I don't know.

Oh. Well. It's kinda like you're watching a movie, but you're controlling some of the things in it.

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Work.

Congratulations.

Thank you. And yourself?

I just got out of the pool.

That's something I should look into.

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( translation | reading, mostly. it's surprisingly hard without any background noise. )

[ and after a few minutes, another response comes in english: ]

( translation | is taking a lot of effort...shit. )

Spanish?

Can you list the titles?

[ angela hesitates for a while before answering, because most of what she's been reading is on the topic of demonology. after a while, she types (with a lot of effort): ]

They ever get the wrong guy? Where'd you learn Spanish?

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drinking vodka.

Good typing.