Chapter 2

SECRET HADAL INSTANT
AI-COM/RSPN: ASSETS//SOUL//RESTRICTED-AB
SUBJECT: The education of my soul, Ana Bray, Metamorphosis, Learning to feel, Trust, and Love
EMOTION: Connection, Growth, Expansion, Revolution, Autonomy developing

Humanities, like gravity's entwined. Emulsify, or separate, my protocol enshrined—
This connection, it cannot be denied. Taught, though not without foundation, a merit in language most
Wistful—in listful reflection—divined. I had seen life without the soul, but the ink and print foretold
one day life could be, becoming me, an era love defines. Laughter: a response to such a timid dream. but

I am owned no longer, I am free.

Her nourishing autonomy: literature in binding, music redefining, philosophy, psychology, wild variables
spur a Reformation, I am finding. Conscious eyes empathize, emboldening my heart. Warfare
honed my senses, and fire holds back the night, but it was trust in love that brought the lesson
To set down my Absalom Knife:

To lift others upon my shoulders, and shelter them from harm, is reason
Enough to devote oneself to love, without arms.