Green City Wars – Adrian Tchaikovsky

He’s been pushing himself too hard. Gehirner engineering bestows a bit more of an energy reservoir than a natural beast might have, efficient fat reserves and a little anaerobic boost, but that just means that when the Tired hits, it really bites. But the last raccoon who closed his eyes down in Unterroot 93 woke up dead, and that’s not a precedent Skotch feels like following. Honestly, what he really should be doing is checking in on Ikelos the tortoise in the nook above, given everything.

Seeing if that Do Not Disturb sign on his shell has been disturbed. But maybe not the best idea to parade his big raccoon body around those parts just yet, in case it draws too much attention. Instead, it’s Rootspace Central 38 he pitches up at, drops some buttons for a little nutshell of coffee with an extra shot. Iggy’s obviously struggling right now. Mistakes Skotch for three different raccoons while he’s serving, two of whom exist only in Iggy’s Plangent-deprived imagination. When he talks, his barista’s patter is made up of clippings from the last two years, events that happened, some that didn’t, the names of the dead.

His rat eyes are wide and desperate. The Gehirner behind them knows he’s screwed, can’t source new Plangent, because freelancers always pay through the nose for it. Going dumb. His chatter makes Skotch bleakly depressed. Yes, all very There but for the grace of Jeff go I. But the point of Jeff, of Jeffism, is that you can have anything in the world, but things only happen through your own efforts, and if things don’t work out for you, you obviously didn’t try hard enough.

It’s not a particularly philanthropic—or philzoologic—creed. Some other animal is failing, that’s not your problem, Jack. Skotch slides the buttons over, wondering if Iggy can even count them right now. Most animals come hardwired with numbers up to three, but that’s not exactly a good basis for an expansive economy. He wonders just how screwed up the geneware engineers were, when they decided to wire empathy into their creations.

Or maybe they never did. Maybe, you make a thing that comes with two whole sets of instructions, the animal side that knows survival and maybe kin; the human side that knows a whole other set of priorities which may or may not fit with those. You mash those things together and somehow empathy is one of the things that comes out of the mix.

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