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it latches onto the ribs we shaped of blade sharp palmyra stems and pulses there we dress her in saththiya s sari she still doesn t talk i think either her hands or the glass bangles will break if i try to force them on i have just five days left on my visa and need two of those for travel saththiya takes my needle and thread and begins making a string of jasmine for her hair instead do you think the bats are putting back together their bat gods i ask we stay at a guesthouse that night we can do this because not only is she shaped like a complete human thanks to her head but the flowers almost mask her smell now that s also how we know something divine is happening we make up another prayer before going to sleep saththiya and kottravai share one bed and me and parvathi the other careful not to touch drinking my blood once was scary enough she says in the morning as i m stirring kottravai says in her monsoon rain voice i don t know whether bats have gods and then we d better get to work i m dead parvathi answers holding the electric kettle i ve done all the work i can we say goodbye to parvathi again sitting together with cups of tea that she could brew but not drink kottravai gives her a last long hug and she disappears while walking down the hall just like a regular pisasu between eyeblinks we have much to do says kottravai sounding fresher and brighter with each word i want time to think about parvathi i wish i d asked if she really slept when she lay next to us at night and if she dreamed i wish i d spoken to her alone sometime in the past few weeks and not had only this shared farewell but kottravai s appearance alarms me in a way that unearthing the parts of her body had not her oozing hand rests on her hip the comb separated from her fingers lies wetly on the bedside table i m afraid she will try to tidy her uncombable panai maddai hair and pull it free have we distorted her appearance too much with too many substitutions she only has two arms and i thought a god would have many and hearing her ordinary voice i am uncertain whether she was even a god before she may have been one of our mothers or aunts or grandmothers or all of them a misremembering of those who taught us to care for the land they only had two arms each we were never going to get her back as she was saththiya murmurs you saw how the land is changed what makes up kottravai has changed i expect her to demand seeds or a manveddi but kottravai leads us along the hallway green and brown and still decaying and out onto the sun scorched tar road i want you to dig water tanks the two of us asks saththiya i don t think these fingers would stay together for long kottravai inspects her hands water has always been the problem here i wasn t surprised about the temple tank but i saw with my own eye how low the well water is saththiya and i look at each other i wonder if it will rain we d asked each other we reach the bus stop and kottravai continues we can t make it rain the whole world has changed even if we hadn t been ripped apart we might not be able to make it rain but i can tell you how to store water when it does i can tell you what to plant and when and how i want to tell her it s not knowledge that s lacking only the capacity to do all of this on our own and that s what we wanted from her but dear saththiya who understands more clearly than i do says i ll be able to find workers to help and turns to me can you help get the money when can you come back since when have our gods ever been a shortcut the rattling bus arrives and as our decomposing kottravai climbs the steps in front of me maggots wriggling around her ringing anklets i see that her feet don t match at all author tehnuka posted on june 29 2026 april 15 2026 categories fiction it was paradise 1 comment on sowing kottravai categories fiction it was paradise original mandate robin s toy nestled in my hand purring with something akin to life the clear ball was filled with undulating blobs that changed color when they bumped into one another merging into new forms before splitting off in a graceful mitosis coming together falling apart together and apart over and over ahimsa told me it was inspired by a pre depletion era artifact joeann hart r obin s toy nestled in my hand purring with something akin to life the clear ball was filled with undulating blobs that changed color when they bumped into one another merging into new forms before splitting off in a graceful mitosis coming together falling apart together and apart over and over ahimsa told me it was inspired by a pre depletion era artifact based on brownian motion the random movement of particles in a fluid she said the artifact was called a lava lamp but it was neither lava nor lamp as robin reached up to grab it the sleeves of his baby blue tunic slid back to reveal his arms for a moment i was transfixed by his perfection and then he said want want such a human word it would kill us all in the end the humanx movement wanted the original mandate overturned and if your motto is save the planet eliminate humans there s not much incentive to spare lives beliefs taken to extremes always lead to genocide want what i asked robin want ball he said with a little jump you know what i m asking he let his arms swing back and forth as he considered my request want ball please please i whispered it was the ethics board crisis all over again only intensified with time ahimsa has always been a ladder to those in need so she d been elected zonal representative last week she was summoned to the convention to decide the fate of the original mandate which if overturned would mark the final fate of much of life certainly ours if they hate humans so much why don t they just wander off to the barrens and be done with it she muttered as she packed the trouble began a few years back when the ethics board recommended that talos our communal intelligence system stop adjusting the human genome for survival the board claimed we had repaired as much as was possible on the planet so now it was time to let nature take its course it was absurd nature s course would be brief and brutal not just for us but for all the species that depended on talos only a few single cell survivalists would be left to carry on as things were it was still touch and go for us multicellulars human population was probably no more than a hundred thousand in any livable zone where talos regulates oxygen and controls radiation worldwide we were maybe a few million talos kept a running count but i hadn t checked since the day robin was born and ahimsa and i joyfully watched it click up one the number did not always go up sometimes it went down and humanx wanted to turn it back to zero to do that they would have to overturn the original mandate which stated that talos be globally programmed to incorporate all living things including any extinct organisms that could be salvaged from the depletion back to a restored and balanced eco system human beings were living things for better or worse so the ethics board was disbanded to keep us that way i placed the ball in robin s open palms please and i said he scrunched his little face up in deep thought while i waited i noticed his color was already changing human skin was modified a greenish tint to protect us from emissions but the shade lightens with age he s getting older i m getting older what would become of us thank you he shouted the words fell behind him as he shot across the room his ball held against his body his tunic flapping like wings such a miracle in spite of the fragility of our dna talos had greatly increased the chances of human reproduction in this sub lethal environment ahimsa and i both had eggs but even if they were viable healthy sperm was a rare commodity so talos used genetic material from our bone marrow spliced with a few sequences from other species nine months later ahimsa pushed robin out into the world in this very hometree born with much of the protection he d need to survive but while ahimsa and i were busy raising him and doing our jobs rewilding robins here at the hatchery humanx was working to erase his future the disbanded board traveled the world courting followers with a single answer to all their problems urging them to elect anti mandate reps essentially voting against their lives humanx insisted there would be no bloodshed since humans would just fade away once talos stopped engineering our genome but they d obviously never seen slow bleed outs from radiation or heard of mercy killings i looked out the window and up at the sky no sign of ahimsa but the woods were lovely in the pink afternoon light i could see why humanx was confused so many places like this looked as if we d done our job restoring and rewilding but it was just that looks the ecosystem was still dependent on talos and would be for many more generations before it could function on its own humanx couldn t see the work ahead of us because they couldn t see the work behind they had no interest in history all the genetic manipulation we d gone through to survive had not made us any smarter so now ahimsa was off to save our future she d come a long way once a fledgling humanx herself she came to understand that restoring the planet meant maintaining humans even to the point of creating one more hence robin i didn t bring him into this world only to have him watch it die she said as she left yanking her snood over her smooth head she d been gone for seven days sequestered and silent so silent my heart raced beneath my ribs the chicks in the hatchery wouldn t need my attention for another hour so i wiped the worry off my face and went to play with robin in his room i got on the floor and we sat before his hologramite to draw flowers with our fingers and the tips of our noses a daisy he said and it looked just like one good job i said and ran my fingers through his fine black hair such a talented child i was coloring in a rose when i heard a hovercraft land in the yard with a thud robin and i looked at one another ah we shouted ahimsa he grabbed his ball and we ran to the window and saw her unload her bag and tap the hover away we tumbled down the ramp as she was removing her snood and we hugged she was sweaty filthy and ecstatic ecstatic was good robin grabbed her leg we miss you he shouted hug sandwich she picked him up and we joined together as one so tell me i said talking into her neck what happened let s get inside it s complicated i have to eat then i ll tell you everything ahimsa put robin down with a kiss on his head she looked different wilder thinner for sure her green tunic seemed too large as it slipped off a boney shoulder bennu our hand raised robin flew over us with a sharp chirp we liked to think it was his greeting but for all we knew it meant scat not that long ago there had been only a handful of his species left and now we raised and released hundreds a month along with dozens of other facilities in our zone talos reported that some of them are now reproducing successfully on their own we were getting there come inside i picked up ahimsa s bag when was the last time you ate i can t even remember she said we ran out of almost all supplies towards the end they couldn t bring in more i asked they could but they didn t the organizers were forcing us to a decision knowing we were afraid of calling a vote and i think they might ve been trying to give humanx a taste of what it s like to suffer from thirst and hunger hardball i said it was a rough week she took robin s hand and they skipped up the ramp ahead of me i was weak with relief bennu dive bombed my head again and i looked up funny there was a lot of hovercraft activity so something big must be going on nearby once i was inside i paused then locked the door ahimsa was in the living room with robin and i got her a glass of water then made her a pesce protein wrap with greens robin and i watched her eat so happy to have her back did we save the mandate i said she held her hand up as she swallowed there were hundreds of reps from all over the zone she said wiping her mouth but a lot were humanx i hadn t realized so many had gotten elected even here we signed in with our palms on a talos membrane and then we talked it out humanx and the rest of us back and forth we went around and around talking in circles most of the time it was so frustrating because most humanx weren t really listening and there were times they were so emphatic i thought we d lose some of our own other humanx circled outside the building the whole time yelling i thought they d set us on fire fire robin asked and ahimsa tightened her lips robin why don t you gather your new drawings for ah i said we could protect his skin from radiation but not from human reality sorry she said once he was out of the room tell me i said all of it she looked over at robin s bedroom waiting until the door swung closed behind him humanx went first making the case that humans were guilty of ecocide i nodded and shrugged if you followed any argument about damage to the planet it always came back to us but never all of us throughout history most humans worked with nature not taking more from it than could be regenerated then our numbers grew along with our wants it only took a few corporations with the help of the law to destroy it all and therefore humans should not be allowed to stay on and that automatons can be left to rewild non human life that s nuts i said talos manages the autos and we manage talos there was no talking logic to them they just kept playing on everyone s emotions like a drum one humanx whose zone used to be a parasitical oligarchy showed gruesome hologram images from early in the depletion era they were hard the peeling skin deaths the bone draining famines the wasting diseases that made death a friend the animal images were excruciating they were so innocent another humanx from an equatorial zone pointed out that all that suffering was caused by humans and that given half a chance we d do it again we couldn t be trusted to remember and we couldn t be made to believe that s an unknown i said without much conviction depletion education was mandatory and yet there were those who claimed it never happened that our world was always like this and then there were those who put all the blame on talos and claimed it had values that didn t align with ours that s nuts i said talos is just a tool a tool for our values we spent a lot of time explaining how talos was programmed but humanx didn t care they said the planet didn t want us here anymore and that was that we were quiet for a while just listening to robin play in the next room we re a rationalizing animal after all i said at last not a rational one the recordings should all be released by now ahimsa pulled down a hologramite and swiped the air with her finger look here this was their closing argument one particularly sad looking humanx took the floor he was 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