Cloud Atlas Page #5

Unanimity's a... (indistinguishable)

- [Sonmi~451 begins speaking Japanese]

- (It is unfortunate that the officials of the Unanimity can

only speak one language.)

As an officer of Unanimity, I am of course restricted

from using sub-speak.

Of course.

Please describe a typical twenty-four hour Papa Song cycle.

At hour four, each server is awoken by auto-stimulin.

From revival, we proceed to the hygiener.

After dressing we file into the dinery.

At hour five, we man our stations to greet the

new day's consumers.

Welcome to Papa Song's.

For the next nineteen hours we input orders,

tray food, vend drinks,

upstock condiments, wipe tables, and bin garbage.

all done in strict adherence to First Catechism.

What is the First Catechism?

"Honor thy consumer."

After the final cleaning,

we imbibe one Soapsac, then return to our sleep box.

That is the blueprint of every single day.

Did you ever think about the future?

Papa Song servers have just one possible future.

You mean, Xultation?

Could you describe this annual Rite of Passage?

On first day, Seer Rhee would stamp a star

on each of our collars.

Twelve stars meant an end to our contract.

How did you feel when you watched one

of your sisters ascend?

Excitement.

I was happy for them,

but envious as well.

Did your sister servers feel as you did?

Most of them.

I would like to ask about the infamous Yoona~939.

If Yoona~939 woke you, who woke her?

Seer Rhee.

Why would a Seer wake a server?

Perhaps you should ask him, Archivist.

What's wrong with him?

He drinks Soap.

It makes him happy,

then he sleep like us in our box.

Do you ever think about... what it must be like...

up there with the consumers?

Third Catechism forbids such questions.

Yes... it does.

Come. Let me show you a secret.

(Platform four, Lost and Found.)

Now, Sonmia,

we are inside a secret.

Akino?

- We are not allowed...

- Sonmia, no one will ever know.

Come.

(This is a violation of the ruddy Incarceration Act!)

(I will not be subjected to criminal abuse.)

(This is a violation of the ruddy Incarceration Act!)

- I will not be subjected to criminal abuse.

- (I will not be subjected to criminal abuse.)

You could have been excised.

How did you justify such a risk to yourself?

She was my friend.

Please describe the events of September 18th,

from your perspective.

I was stationed at pedestal one.

I will not be subjected to criminal abuse.

Step away. Code yellow. The area is secured.

[Big Isle, 106 winters since the Fall]

Nay, this life of rotted luck

[Big Isle, 106 winters since the Fall]

ain't no smiles I'm yarnin'.

An' rear's time I ever first the secret

of Sloosha's Hallow,

Adam, my bro' by law, n' his son n' me be trekkin'

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