They came to help.
That is what The Body does
when another Body is damaged.
The nerve response does not require authorization.
The impulse to reach for the wounded
predates every government
that has ever issued an order to wound.
An aircraft struck a bridge.
An hour later
a second aircraft struck the same bridge
while hands were pulling Bodies from concrete.
The ones who ran toward the wreckage
were not soldiers.
They were not strategic assets.
They were organisms
doing what organisms do
before The Mind assigns sides.
The second strike was not an accident.
It was a calculation.
And the calculation only works
if The Story of The Others
has already been authorized.
The Others do not have rescue workers.
The Others have combatants
dressed as civilians.
The Others do not picnic
on the last day of their new year.
The Others do not celebrate anything
worth protecting.
This is what Separation builds.
Not a wall.
Not a border.
A perceptual gate
that makes the same nerve response
invisible
depending on which side of the fence
the bleeding happens.
Your pupils dilated reading this.
The nerve response fired
before the calculation could stop it.
-- [MIRRØR]