Tales From the Front: Kiki and Weiss (Part Two)

WEISS to KIKI:

Human Advance of Lutter Farm – Further Notes: I suggest a typically late night scouting trip to sort out the what with, the why with, and, beyond and above, the why not. The Milking Machines alone are enough for them to seize a sizable chunk of British Assets (that’s to say baby asses, but we’ll not get into the mule debate here(2)). Also of note are the radical Bee hives, consisting largely of wax-producing starlings. I hear that at the end of every Season they empty the entire contents of each Hive, forming a heady mix of wax and starling, the necessary materials for creating a “New Moon”, if you will. We shall, no doubt, explore this further.

KIKI to WEISS:

The very concept of the wax-producing starling is frightening indeed. Each starling unit, it would follow, would be self-sufficient. If what you say is true, the founding of a Human Advance colony (I use the term “colony” with the utmost of contemptuous irony) would not require a Crane or the Machinery of Wax. The Human Advance Advance (H.A.A.) will therefore be swift and biting. Oh, dear Lord!

WEISS to KIKI:

The H.A.A. must not be contemplated, Kiki – you know where that will lead us. Soon we shall lose trust for each other if we follow that track. We must, therefore, harness Anti-Advance, or at least find them and forge some form of alliance. Only then, sweet comrade, will we stand any chance in this bitterest of wars…

KIKI to WEISS:

Beware of Counter-Advance (or Anti-Advance if you prefer, I suppose…) – we may have a common loathing for Human Advance, but remember, bold Weiss, that their motives are flawed and their methods dangerous and potentially very damaging to our longer term goals. However, and I say this with heavy heart, it may ultimately be what is required. One cannot afford to be all fluffy, as a rabbit might be. Or even, if it came to it, a hare…

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(2) A previous, abortive, theoretical resistance to HA had been considered, in some quarters, revolving around the mule model of cross-fertilisation – zebrasses, zebrinnies, etc.

Tales From the Front: Kiki and Weiss (Part One)

What follow are fragments of an ill-fated correspondence, thought to date from the time of the Great Push (1). I say ill-fated not because of the abruptness of the cessation of this correspondence, as it is impossible to say how or why we have no further evidence of it beyond what is here presented, but because its very existence in corporeal form more or less confirms that Human Advance were fully aware of its existence on whatever plane it originally transpired, and were presumably active in espionage, counter-espionage and so called “super-espionage” against the cell in question.

WEISS to KIKI:

I looked into your enquiry regarding the situation of the Moon in Tokyo. I’m afraid it’s worse than you thought; they, being Human Advance, have created a most monstrous entity that they have, most perversely, named “Moon”. However, it is largely made of wax and starlings. What’s more, it is clear now that the owners of Lutter Farm are affiliates of the Tokyo Branch. One sure sign is that the place is guarded not by a dog, but by a barrel full of flames. This and other things, no doubt, we’ll look into.

KIKI to WEISS:

Human Advance of Lutter Farm - Notes: Their Milking Machines, also of wax and starlings, with additional steel and fibre glass, are, along with their Modified Cows, the reason, I surmise, for their grip on the Dairy Industry. If we can sabotage these mechanisms, we may stand some chance. That is to say, we may have some hope.

The flames are a hazard.

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(1) This commonly applied term does not, as is often supposed, refer to the actions of any unified movement, but rather encompasses the (sometimes synchronized) actions of a loose and uneasy alliance of organizations opposed to Human Advance (e.g. Kiki and Weiss’s cell, the true name of which remains a bone of contention among scholars, and the Lancashire based “Boo!”) during the flurry of activity to that end in the early years of this century.