a green point: saturated green, suffused green, steeped green
I have been to this place before, Clever’s head thinks, asleep and awake, within and without. Her head surveys greenness, seeking to locate her Self.
drenched green, dis-embodied green
curved-curled-coiled green crystalline celestial sphere
Oh, here we are within, Clever’s head thinks and urges Self to bang on the inside wall of a sealed orb. Let me out!
voices chime — sister voices — phased in threes/sixes/nines — pealing, singing, green with ringing —
Other Selves are somewhere near, Clever’s head thinks. Three, at least. I will be bold.
Clever (never a girl to be silent; shouts from within her green bubble): Who are you? Where are you? Talk to me. Acknowledge me. (pounds repeatedly on green inner shell) I am come to initiate a grand task. I am come to claim the relic that will save Vixen from her angry lover.
triple trios chatter — voices warble — lifting-lilting-trilling green music of the spheres
[gathered round Clever; trying to figure out what she is]
Mezzo-Soprano <middle voice>: ... what is this vibrating packet? … dropped, delivered, deposited among us … a packet … lost, needful, orphaned …
Contralto <low voice>: … pah … naught but a random particle randomly shot among us … noisy, clamorous, obstreperous …
Coloratura-Soprano <high voice>: ... a wave! an incoming wave! … a thread that twines, winds, weaves among us! ...
Contralto: ... string theory, naught but fool’s misrule … a string begets snarls, knots, tangles ... quantum vis can chop right through the mess …
Mezzo-Soprano: ... observation will tell … quantum sufficit … fetch the eye, little sister, from the cabinet … this needs looking …
Coloratura-Soprano: ... quantum placet! … i retrieve eye and i look first! ... 1st! before 2nd! before 3rd! … a sequence! a wave! …
Contralto: ... firstness, little bitch, is not negotiable … 3-in-1 … 1-in-3 … our trinity, a self-contained particle …
Mezzo-Soprano: ... 3 may be 1, elder sister … however, 3 may not act as 1 … the eye is to share among us … as we share all cabinet artifacts … the ear, the tooth, the skin, the nostril …