Amirhan deser mission, day 335
Our bread had gone through. Ismen told me in the morning the others had gotten our message and they had spent the evening trying to come up with plans for us to get out of here. They think we should get to Ashakati, and to Khorixas' home, because they got through to the other time line through there. I am not sure I agree with their conclusions.
First, we do not know if they are in the real world and we are in the not-real weird parallel world. We do not even know if there is a real and not-real world to label the time lines we have in any meaningful way. This time line is clearly real also, since we are here and experience it. However, the time has obviously split in two, and if there is no one else in this world except me and Ismen, which we obviously do not know, but the empty Ashakati would seem to vaguely implicate, this is a lot worse at least harder time line to be in, we should try to get to the other one. Of course it may be everything else is here, and only the people Ashakati and now Ndali and Enembe and the other Ismen are in the other time line. I do not know how likely it is, however. All we know is that we are now separated, and we should get back to the same place, and that that same place should more likely be the snowless time line than this one, since it is a less hostile place to be, or at least more predictable, which decreases the exposure to danger.
Second, I am not sure we should try to get to Ashakati. Ndali and Enembe got moved to the other time line from there, but there is zero guarantee it would work again. It would also mean we have to leave behind the only means of communication we have to contact them, the microwave. Of course we could take it with us, but again there is no guarantee it will work anywhere else the same way it works here, and it is very heavy. The other down side of leaving the hub is that it is safe here, at least relatively safe. If we leave and the temperature rises again, the ground might become sticky again, we will get stuck in the middle of a desert and slowly starve to death, like they in the other time line also noted. And that is only the most obvious and predictable danger we expose ourselves to if we leave. Then again, we do not know how to get to the other time line if we do stay here, since we have no idea how to get there. Going to Ashakati is the only way we know of that it has been possible for someone to pass between the time lines, so the probability it will work again is greater than the probability of us getting there if we stay here. Not to mention we will run out of food if we stay here for too long. So in the end, even though going to Ashakati may be dangerous and there is absolutely no guarantee of it making anything better, it seems to be the least bad plan we currently have.
This brings us to the question we have been trying to answer all day today: how to we get from here to Ashakati? The final answer we have come up with is that we need a motor of some kind that will push air from one direction to the other and so push us in the opposite direction. Like a fan, except with enough power to move to human beings and some equipment along an almost frictionless surface. I slid Ismen around the yard again today, so we could see the equipment we have in the barn. In the end of the day we had a plan of what equipment we need to use and what to do in order to build a fan-powered sled that we can use to move relevant equipment (we are using this opportunity to get some parts of machines from here to the other time line to be used as spare parts, since they now exist in both worlds and are thus doubled in number, and will not be needed here after we leave) and ourselves to Ashakati.
We baked some bread to send the others a message of our plan. The bread disappeared from the microwave, even though I was afraid it was some kind of an anomaly that only worked yesterday, so I suppose they got the message. I have been thinking throughout the day of other explanations for all of this, of course. In the end, even if we are wrong about everything that is happening, that we are delusional or hallucinating the communication with the other time line, there is enough evidence that it truly does exist that it seems best to act like it is all true, no matter how weird.
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Your topic for tomorrow is Blind.
~matu
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