Delusional Dinosaur


The primary misconception the dinosaur had was that he was still alive. It was a hopeful misconception, but objectively it just wasn’t true. As hard as the dinosaur wanted to believe he was alive, the evidence he was confronted with was all in the negative. No breathing. No blood. No movement. No dino erection. Check, check, check and-- big bummer--check. He was however, aware, which was even more distressing. Being not-alive was bad enough, being dead certainly worse. But being a ghost of a dinosaur, reincarnated inside of a plastic dinosaur toy, was certainly the worst fate any creature could imagine.

The Uncoupling

They had never meant to have ended up like this. But in outer space, as in life, intentions lack a certain amount of reality. What seemed real now was they suspected an uncoupling might save both of them, but neither was totally sure if it was true. The pods weren't designed to be entirely self-sufficient in the first place, but it was possible (the pods believed) that the levels of the energy sharing and resource swapping, was, at this point doing more harm than good. Further, (the pods now darkly considered) it was likely that the coupling was what caused their orbital decay in the first place. This all may have been both of their faults from the start. The two pods, slowly falling from space towards a ground where they didn’t belong, believed they had, at this point, no choice but to uncouple and hope for the best.