Okarina / Pillule Kosmik

OKARINA/PILLULE KOSMIK

A comic in a combination of watercolor and digital. On a dark blue pixel background, there is a gray and yellow planet framed in smooth lines. The image is framed in glowing green pixel corners decorated in lines like electricity. Colorful French text is written (translation below). At the bottom, a person with a blond ponytail (Aquillataq) walks over a gray and pink bridge into what seems to be a large room filled with oval shapes.

Part 1

...extracted from the collection...

[Cosmic Intelligence SLURB]

...self-generated origins...

Postcolonial Optimal Growth Era Year 531 by the A.S. [Atarashi Sekai] Calendar

// YOU ENTER THE GLOWBE NETWORK //

// Amusement park reserved // Player 1 //

for too long, we’ve been put down... who is truly free?

the real ones will rise up...

The images are framed in glowing green, and on a pixel purple background. Beside each of the images is text in French. In the first image, we see half the scene from the previous image plus what seems to be another passageway. In the second image, we see the passageway, an arc with black swirly designs above it. Two dark figures walk in line beyond it. In the second image we see Aquillataq, with her blond ponytail, up close and in profile--she has a stylistically long neck and a dark pink coat. In the fourth image we see her, on a pink background, facing Hachi who has gray skin, gray and black hair, and is on a dark gray background.

Aquillataq: “Have you taken note of all the things we can do here?”

Aquillutaq stood straight and still in the void, playing the keyboard only she could see, still immersed in the adjustment levels for the next performance.

The hall was empty of an audience. Under an artificially darkened courtyard ceiling, a hundred vibratile velvet seats were arranged in an arc, separate from one one another.

The intonation of the question had ignited a spark of curiousity in Hachi’s head.

Hachi: “No, but go ahead. What do you propose?”

We see a continuation from the previous image. Behind Hachi is what looks like an aquarium, with a dark hole with tendrils coming from it, and pink fish of different shapes swimming around. In the second image we see pink and purple flower-like creatures, with an anemone-like creature in the foreground. We see a similar thing in the third image, but half the third frame is taken up by a swirly black shape. The fourth image shoes the black shape in full, which has two eyes in it and is patterned like a rose.

<< THE AQUARIUM | THE AQUARIUM | THE AQUARIUM | THE AQUARI... >>

Aquillutaq stopped in her tracks and resumed in a more calm and controlled tone.

Aquillataq: “I recommend the aquarium. It is one of the rare places that brings together so many savage life forms. There are marine animals today visible only in captivity: vertebrates, invertebrates, fish, cetaceans, gastropods, arthropods, cephalopods. There are super-organisms in which each individual works to make the whole function, giant algae from hot ocean vents, coral from abyssal depths, underwater-caves snakes, eighteen-pointed starfish...”

“from microscopic sandworms, metamorphic jellyfish, fast, slippery, camouflaged, immobile animals...

with seaweed on their backs...the children of the past...fascinating...”

“too much...too much...too much energy! How it is possible? I feel it all...

I saw his...his distress...” Suddenly, she stopped speaking. She was shaking, her eyes searching for something.

Mizuha caught her gaze, an indescribable glimmer of excitement radiating from deep within her pupils. When she saw him faceto-face, the trembling stopped. Mizuha spoke first:

to be continued...