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From singing to working, the sisters shapeshift and commence a green investigation …
The 1st Trial
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She-who-spins <fetches eye from cabinet; inserts eye for 1st observation; eye looks>: … eye confirms i am right! i triumph! … eye sees spinning, just as i spin! and while spinning it waves! …
photon spin
Clever (spins round and round inside her green globe; waves arms wildly to attract attention): Here! I am here! Look at me! See me!
She-who-rends <mutters, sotto voce>: … i need no eye to know what i know …
She-who-winds <known for didactic tendencies>: … spinning, dear Daughter, begins the beginning … a beginning makes history possible … the spinner grasps random raw fiber; pulls and twists length-wise into the organized strand; the stuff of Chaos is tamed, is ordered, is folded into a single thread …
She-who-spins <ejects eye>: … grasp! pull! twist! repeat! … i spin a sequence! a pattern! a wave!
She-who-winds <takes eye>: … ah, but history happens when i wind and measure; otherwise the thread lapses, collapses into knots … the snarls and tangles of a grandmother’s rant …
She-who-rends: … you mean the entanglement of a mother’s delusion … Chaos is not idle and lying about, waiting to be tamed-ordered-folded by a couple of stupid cows bearing spindle and bobbin …
Clever (bangs on inside surface of green crystal): Hear! I can hear! Ladies, I must speak. My mission is urgent.
Bloch wave: particle sealed in crystal; “Blue is real part, red is imaginary part.”
The 2nd Trial
She-who-winds <inserts eye for 2nd observation; eye looks>: … eye observes and i … <suddenly speechless> … what eye observes i am tasked to measure and record … regardless my preference, my preferment … regardless my appetite or my steadfast belief … <momentarily wordless> …regardless my pre-conceived notions … <prostrate/voiceless>
She-who-spins: … regardless your babbling! just say it, Mother! …
She-who-rends: … talks too much; says too little …
She-who-winds <tender sigh>: … eye sees the packet bears a child … a child fallen among us … <bosom heaves> … i cannot deny a child; i cannot disown a child …
Clever: Yes, yes! I am a beggar child, come to tell stories for a bit of bread.
coherent backscattering: how beggars travel
She-who-spins <jealous pique>: … what about me, dear Mother! … i am a child! …
She-who-rends: ... pah … you virgins play a trickster game … innocent when convenient, experienced when needed … neither and both …
She-who-winds <disheveled/discombobulated/obfusticated; murmurs vaguely>: ... i am unable to circumvent a child … <ejects eye>