Lab - Day 2 | 1st | AETERNUM Hx

Starting Day 2, the first person to enter the lab will find this artifact.

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The book lies beneath dirt and soot; a single yellowed page is attached to its worn, tattered spine. The contents of the page are neatly written in cursive and dark-blue ink, as if the writer had hoped it would be read by others.

(Judas Horne, twenty-one, male, the space’s junior sociologist.)

The group that I am examining lives in an almost-utopian society, a large tribe that is never reluctant to share, to love, and to bond with one another. Their behavior reminds me of a threshing forest in which roots are charitable with food and interweave with each other. The civilization they’ve built here gives me hope that civilizations can thrive without destroying another civilization or without destroying itself.

The gender ratio is equal, and the occupations are divided skillfully, in which every part is given a task that they are adept at. A class hierarchy does exist due to the levels of occupations, but ostracization from higher classes towards the lower ones is rarely seen. Wealth is shared, food is rationed, and greed is dead here. I, personally, would love to live out the rest of my days in this strange, methodical world.

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written by Griffin