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Originally Posted by SoylentOrange
True, but then it's not "Mary's Story", and that's what the whole thing's focused on. Maybe after this one's done I can maybe do a side-story about another world where two seeds meet.
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Oh, do please write us this story, Mr. Orange! When you're not busy, of course.
Actually, assuming Mary's Story doesn't end badly for either us or her, a seed meeting story might be an interesting sequel. Then again, it might be impossible.
Hmm... Actually, I wonder how common alien life is in the Mary's Story universe? Particularly intelligent life. The Body seems to find Mary's thought processes strange, but that might just be the psycological equivilent of human thought being jury-rigged by an amateur electrician.
Come to think of it, maybe the Flesh explains the Fermi paradox.
Ah, I feel sorry for all the previous minds of the body... I imagine most of them would feel trapped in the flesh, immobile, virtually immortal lifeforms stretched over the entire surface of their planets, only the Body for company, waiting out the long eternity 'till death from starvation or supernova... Even for a creature with sub-human intelligence it'd be mind-cracking torture.
Then again... the body seems to have some kind of wierd telepathic (radio?) tentacle control thing going on. Maybe with a large enough (i.e. planet-sized) 'antenna' there could be some communication with other Minds, or something. Or maybe contacting alien brains via the body would be the last straw so far as sanity was concerned...