#im returning to my roots yall!!!!! yipeee

[alessoningrief]

The watchful eyes of the IPC span across the universe, and so Sigonia could not escape.

He found the tape in a tiny corner in the vast database of the Technology Department. It was not an easy task, given that million, billion, trillion surveillance data are currently being kept and updated every single second within the company. In the end, it took him years of tireless searching and god knows how much credit points just to be able to locate the tape covering Sigonia in the specific time frame that he wanted, and even then, the only thing he can only see is a small dot at the intersection of the universe.

Sigonia is nowhere as technologically developed, nor does it have economic importance as many other planets. In the surveillance tape, situated so far away in space, all that shows up is a tiny, blinking light, the only photographic evidence of lives existing before the establishment of the Sovereignty, before the Extinction, before the beginning of the end.

And yet he could not look away. And yet, right here, right now, in front of him, on this small screen glowing blue in the night, everyone that he knew and loves is still alive.

Look! They are dancing, and the auntie who lives two houses down is calling for her son to get home, her voice drawn out, lilting, and the boy who lives right at the base the second highest hill is happily munching on the cookie he sneaks from his father's bag.

And look - there is his sister, she is smiling, she is singing, she is dancing, she is saying, "Come, Kakavasha, if you don't hurry up, dinner is going to get cold," and he is so cold, big sister, I am so cold, why did you leave me behind, why did you leave me alone, why didn't you take me with you, big sister, I'm so scared, is it because I am a bad child? I promise I will be good, I promise I will be nice, I promise I will not make you sad, please, big sister, please. Please.

Please.