Day 20

 An artefact


Day 20 ..future misunderstood artefact


Under the artificial topsoil in the new gardens

of new Liverpool, a drone crew find this artefact - they treat it as a find; they take the thing apart, made of a soft fabric, decayed in parts, but whole. ‘The skin of an animal’, another expert says, 'Honestly the ghoulishness of these people was astonishing'

Inside, as we have heard, are many things needed to disguise

the human flesh. A tube of ruddier grease, a vial of black ,

a cloud of dust. Interestingly the core device nestles in the heart of things-.lifeless and screen dark. This says to us

the person loved it, but was not enough in awe of it as yet, perhaps a little careless

We find the fingerprints on various surfaces, reflective and non-reflective, fascinating - so much stored in the spirals and the sweat on the skin ,whole books, to use the archaic, they weren't sure how to read as yet, in full.

Last, for some reason unknown, down among the powder and fluff, a note scrawled on in pencil, which all our programmes find indecipherable.

The scans indicate this was picked up again and again,

as if it held some ritual importance. Shame that- the programme can pick out a drawing of a skewered heart,

a symbol of love in this time- roughened hide.



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