In cycle 847, you were a field medic, yet you died in your eighth moon cycle of an infection we could not treat.
+See note about wolves being immune to all cancers and infections.
O: Once you were a holo director of a romance show about dragon shifters.
+That Dorie was FUN and READY! Dorie 941’s journal is a terrific read. 5 stars!
Me→trying to process: So every cycle, I go from awkward virgin to just being okay with all of this? Being stuck in a Pleistocene Age time loop? Mating three guys, and then dying in childbirth?
O: We decided early on not to distress you with the burden of your impending death. You have only discovered that you are inside this broken circle six times.
+Technically 8. They told me once, I figured it out this cycle, and six times before this one—mostly in the 900s.
Me: And what about me being totally okay mating three dragons? That’s never an issue for me?
^Crazy long silence here.
O: Only as of the last twelve cycles.
Me: What happened twelve cycles ago?
^O refusing to answer. A & D averting their eyes.
Me: Tell me. That’s an order.
O: Prior to cycle 988, she-wolves, like their bear counterparts, were encoded for heightened levels of arousal and willingness to receive multiple partners. You went into heat often and were eager for partners.
For this reason, the original Dories were between eight and ten rotations younger.
However, there was a version of you that had children you left behind. You were no longer enamored of your mate, but you felt guilty for mating with us and leaving your children without a mother.
+I was 32 when Sadie pushed me into the lake, but later found out Dories of many ages have come through the portal. Most of them opted for heat control for career reasons. But Dorie 988 went into heat at 18, married early, had two little girls, and was only 24 when she fell through the portal.
O: Subsequently, we adjusted your gender’s entire sex drive to become synchronous with your going into heat.
^WTPE! WTPE! WTPE!
Me: Wait, are you trying to tell me that the females in my race don’t feel arousal until they come in contact with someone who’s sexually compatible because you all wanted to make sure I didn’t start a family with someone else?
O: Not us all. I am the Mission Geneticist. I am the only one who decides what revisions are made to your species’s design.
Me: So you’ve been bringing me back, cycle after cycle, lifetime after lifetime, to have your kid and your kid only?
O: Dorie, you misunderstand my intention.
Me: No, I think I understand perfectly. The Irish Shifters used me to fulfill your prophecy, and now you’re using me.
It doesn’t matter how many times you bring me back, you just keep doing it again and again to create the perfect incubator for your race. And now, you’re just going to kill me because you’re tired of your little science experiment never working out.
+Later, I will regret these words.
O: You are being unfair. You have no idea what the Widower’s Madness has wrought within my brain—where are you going?
Dorie! Do not leave! Dorie, come back!
+End Note: I did not come back. This is where the interview finished because I ran out of the room in a rage.
+The rest of my account can be found in the Dorie 1000 Journal.
