elizabeth in amber
for gen_drabble thing 16: timeless
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She begins by giving herself half a day awake for every eternity spent dreaming, to explore the city, sift through the uncharted territories of the databases. All she lacks is paper, to leave messages for her future self.
But the city never ages, even as she does, and eventually she longs for some proof that she’s not living in an endlessly-repeating bubble of now.
Eventually she lives in brief snatches, waking just long enough to rotate the ZPMs, letting the centuries slide away unnoticed like smoke through fingers, waiting for the day she’ll close her eyes for the last time.
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She begins by giving herself half a day awake for every eternity spent dreaming, to explore the city, sift through the uncharted territories of the databases. All she lacks is paper, to leave messages for her future self.
But the city never ages, even as she does, and eventually she longs for some proof that she’s not living in an endlessly-repeating bubble of now.
Eventually she lives in brief snatches, waking just long enough to rotate the ZPMs, letting the centuries slide away unnoticed like smoke through fingers, waiting for the day she’ll close her eyes for the last time.