I haven't noticed the cacophony produced by this giant machine for a while. I am so used to it that I've forgotten that it's always there. Its core is burning, slowly decaying, 'like all the stars,' Ans used to say; it is sharing its existence so the pistons could move and impulse the wheels. It is alive and it will last 120 years. A lot of time for humans, but to me, it will just be a moment. I will last 10 thousand years, 10 thousand until the core that keeps me alive will fade out. 10 thousand and I am, and I will be just another instant, less than a single second... for the universe. It won't even notice that we, everything, once, happened. Only silence remains… the melody of Oblivion.
Allen is looking at the screens, but his mind is beyond the world, perhaps in the beauty that he los
