I'm in a fairytale world, righting a Grimm usurpation--another throne, another thief-stepmother. A thumb-size talking beetle, bronze and green abets my quest. Odd aid is not extraordinary here amid fable. I gratefully carry my friend beyond a vast dry field to find a crack--bug-palace-- above a verdant creek. A bittersweet dream, for insect-time zips by. We can't be friends for long. By next year, I'm a figure from his wild and distant youth. My friend's mere survival a year's a feat akin to a human century. His offspring find me baffling, a mythical giant confirming their grampa's crazy pipedream deeds-- still present for timeless me, unlike his own worn memory. Oh thou God of Beetles, I'm     drifting gently     far too far down your creek of time.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• God of Beetles: was it Darwin who said that by the evidence (sheer numbers) God loves not us but beetles.
• Ageless view of aging: I lack a lifespan. I'm a mutant--Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. I was ill most of my adulthood; but over the last 25 years, through trial and error I devised treatments that worked. As a result I feel healthier now than I did then. That's good, but it means I never experienced a youthful peak, a middle-age plateau, and a gradual (or not so gradual) decline in old age; the near-universal human sense of what age you are, what your age-appropriate role is. Instead I watch others who I used to envy stumble and fall away...
• At the same time, I can't tell how long I have. Too little is known, and treatments change. I can't plan--for life OR death.
• At the same time, like any native of one millennium who's survived into the next, I am an immigrant suffering culture shock. But unlike spatial immigrants, I can't give up and go back. It's gone.

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