Barcarole Piano

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Cowardly Lion: Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the “ape” in apricot? What have they got that I ain’t got?

Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman: Courage!

Cowardly Lion: You can say that again! Huh?

As always the TechnoCore had an ulterior motive. When an individual walked through a Farcaster portal they passed through the Void Which Binds, a timeless place where the TechnoCore could ‘plug in’ the persons brain into their vast neural net, focused on the problem of creating their UI (Ultimate Intelligence) — a being capable of dealing with the so-called ‘Lions and Tigers and Bears’ that resided within the Void.

~For Svetlana~