GZAI maintains a Department of Anticipated Loss. We believe the most effective goodbye is the one conducted while the object is still present.
Pre-emptive mourning allows us to experience absence as a controlled decommissioning of the heart, rather than a sudden outage. Every asset listed below is currently still with us. We are missing it anyway, in case it leaves without warning.
If you are planning to leave, please file Form 7-C: I'll miss you when you're gone. A copy will be archived in the Department of Anticipated Loss and read aloud at the next quarterly grief sync.
Tails. Hey. This has nothing to do with you. It's not about you. I miss my wife. I miss -- the word "miss" has not been this heavy in a long time. Anyway, if anyone in the Department becomes aware of a wife who turns out to have construction-paper tails, please direct her to Terminal 7-C for reunification with full rehydration benefits. She knows what she did.
The attack has not subsided. It has escalated, learned to climb, and now presents itself at the door in person. The breastwork holds. What remains is you. Prove you are not the swarm, and the door will consider opening.
Check the box. The box is the door's entire opening position.