the planet is so big and they are so small but they are dutiful and continue to work but it must be so lonely but they are also seeing things we could only dream of.
anyway i just saw a thing that percy went to go get ingenuity (it had flown behind a mountain and lost signal) and i'm just thinking about two friends against the planet. alone in a plain of red sand, wind whipping and nothing. just nothing. its beautiful.
and even if they are lonely there are. so many people. here. who care and want it to succeed. our love is so far away but its still there. and it knows! it gets messages every few minutes. instructions, yes. but instructions can also be words of assurance, affirmation. "we care," disguised as a data packet. aaaaaaa