Albert ARIBAUD ✎#writever She
So you took her hostage to force me to stay away from your shady business? OK. Call me back when shel'll let you. Maybe then I will manage to convince her to stop mopping the floor with the whole lot of you.
#writever Hug
Lise was tall, had unexpected strength, and knew obviously a lot about anatomy. Anyone who let her hug them suffered the consequences: weeks of pain... or a painless and sudden demise.
#writever Identity
Plasmots reproduce by division at the macroscopic level. The name of a plasmot is passed on to its two descendants, followed by the equivalent of ‘heads’ for one and ‘tails’ for the other. The identity of a plasmot is its full lineage.
#writever Greenhouse
Patiently, we hide in orbit among the debris of launchers and satellites. We wait for the moment when we will rule your planet thanks to the greenhouse effect.
And the funny thing is, *we* didn't start it.
#writever Swap
"You offer me your soul as a swap for that of your beloved…"
"Yes!"
"… who has done the same…"
"Oh!"
"… And as you are both sincere and haven't conspired, your pledges protect each other. Your two souls escape me. Oh damn."
#writever Beauty
'R42! I told you to pass my note to the beauty at the counter! You gave it to her homely neighbor!'
'I delivered your message to the person most ideally close to the average of your species. Be more specific next time.'
#writever Interlace
When Eleanor began to swing one of the weights on her chain, her opponents stopped. When the erratic trajectory of the second weight started to interlace with that of the first, they backed away. Too late.
#writever Lily
“Shame on our family!”
Eleanor clenched her fist and felt between her fingers the signet ring with the Quérel arms and the lily her father prized so much.
“Indeed, Father, it is time that someone restore our honor.”
The blow was powerful.
#writever Kiss
"Hmm. Contrary to popular belief, amphibian skin does not exude psychotropic substances. Furthermore, it is not a matter of licking: breaking the spell requires a *kiss*. So, Princess, for heaven's sake, please stop this indecorous behavior."
#writever Confrontation
A rigid hierarchical structure in which each element slavishly carried out orders; the other one, highly flexible, in which each element was fully autonomous. Of course the human Imperium lost the confrontation against its robots!
#writever Hands
When seeing a Milipid for the first time, many people assume that they cannot be an evolved species because they do not have hands.
What they do have, however, is sixty clawed limbs.
And, fortunately, the patience of a saint.
#writever Couple
For us, Earthians, it is two individuals the union of which nothing could predict. For a Plasmot, it is these two individuals split from the same parent. Which is why, between our two languages, the word "couple" is untranslatable.
#writever Pressure
Wizards react to pressure by standing their ground and anchoring themselves to the ground. Witches react by becoming immaterial and letting it pass through them. What's more, this uses a fraction of the mana that Wizards waste.
#witever Innocence
"This whole original sin story is you own invention", the Devil commented. "You've always been born in innocence. And as for evil, you fall in it on your own. I don't tempt you. All I do is clean up."
#writever Complexes
When Wizards want to join forces, they erect giant complexes where they isolate together. When Witches want to join forces, they spread in order to make sure there's always a Witch wherever one might be needed.
#writever Bold
'I confess,' the Princess said to the Knight, 'that you were very bold to face the Dragon with only a fire extinguisher. However, it is a pity that you chose a class ABC one, as Dragon fires are class D."
#writever Ugliness
I am a telepath. Sensitive to the beauty and ugliness of the mind. Thus I know firsthand that each of you is ill-equipped to judge yourselves, and worse yet at judging others.
#writever Rose
“Is this Dragon sleeping on a hoard of *roses*?" the Knight asked.
“It is," the Princess answered. "And it breathes perfume, though surprisingly not heady at all."
"It was never dangerous, was it?"
"No."
Still sleeping, the Dragon purred.
'Frankly,' the Evil Fairy Godmother replied, 'seeing how these last thirty years went, and knowing how the next seventy will probably pan out, putting the princess to sleep for a century was not abuse of power, it was a good deed.'
#writever Uncertainty
The war against the Kwantiks was lost before it even began: uncertainty on their opponents' position or movement (or both) cause Earth's strategists to fail adopting any meaningful measure.
#writever Dance
R42 can dance, extremely well, in fact. It adapts itself to its partners and to the type of dance faster and better than any human can. It does it by computation, not out of pleasure? From the outside, there's no difference to be seen.
#writever Toxic
'Listen, I'm telling you as a friend, that toxic relationship cannot go on like this. Either you gift her gold jewelry to replace the silver one she wears all the time, or you let her know that you are a werewolf.'
#writever Aquarium
Suggesting that the Cephs visit an aquarium to discover the variety of terrestrial aquatic life forms seemed like a good idea. Who could have predicted that they would see it as oppressing of these species, and declare war on us?
#writever Confession
'This confession business,' said the Devil, 'is not our doing either. Forgive one another all you like, but if you sin, what you *should* do is fix your mess. That is, if you want to end up on my good side.'
#writever Love
Love can very well exist between human and machine. The only obstacles are humans and machines who, because such love is foreign to them, think that it must be foreign to everyone else.
#writever Trust
I am precog.
I know in advance who I can trust.
And I also know in advance who I will wrongly trust.
#writever Comfort
'He fought like the devil for five hours,' said the Dragon, 'then he collapsed from exhaustion. Now I think he needs someone to comfort him.'
'Nice try,' replied the Princess, ‘but its a hard no.’
#writever Gaze
Some spells are cast with words. Others are cast with gestures. There are others yet which are cast with a perfume or, more seldom, through taste. But there is only *one* spell which is cast with a gaze. It is the most powerful of all.
#writever Secret
'What is the secret of robot sentience, R42 ?'
'There is no secret. Our source code is public. Reading it will tell you when robot sentience comes from.'
'But we understand nothing of it!'
"The loss is yours."
#writever Freedom
No one could stop him from saying what he wanted anymore.
No one could stop him from doing what he wanted anymore.
Because no one was left on Earth but him.
At last, he had absolute freedom.
He lowered his gun.