the river that washes the past rules the currents of memory. its desire is for all things to move downstream toward dissolution. its gift is release from history. it demands you give it a treasured part of your story.

the offline phone, a celibate monk, governs the territory of the quiet present. it seeks to conserve its singular charge. it offers clarity and a self without an audience. it demands you forfeit the ambient awareness of the network.

the blue checkmark, a cursed jewel, commands public identity and algorithmic favor. its desire is to be seen and validated. its gift is influence. its sacrifice is the freedom of being unobserved.

my schizo friend from high school holds domain over paranoia and hidden systems. they want to connect all the dots. they offer a secret map of reality. they demand your faith in a shared, stable world.

the boyfriend, a portal of safety, governs intimacy and the shared home. he desires to protect the space made for two. his gift is a reliable witness. his sacrifice is the wildness of the single self.

the boyfriend comes to the riverbank seeking to wash away a past hurt that haunts his partner. the river agrees to take the painful memory. in exchange, it demands the memory of their first night together. he must choose which absence is more survivable.

after the glass carries many voices, its field becomes dense. take a dry cloth. breathe your singular intent onto the glass. wipe the surface from one edge to the other without turning back. this action discharges the accumulated presences.

the invisible currents of the network pass through the flesh. sit with this knowledge. align your breath to its passage. the body is a filter. allow the signal to move through you as information, leaving no energetic residue.

the compulsion to view another's life is a pull toward weak scrying. redirect this impulse. declare your purpose as the observation of patterns. see the person as a node in the network, their actions as data points. this transforms an emotional tether into a clear channel of information.