Magnetic Field with an Identity Crisis: Interview among Currents and Pauses on Bhavashar
On Bhavashar, where cities reshape themselves as easily as mantras echo into space, The Kosmic Courant met Qra-Flux-a sentient magnetic field. A conversation winding through glitching circuits, temple complaints and the subtle art of being diffuse.
Kyzzu Orr (interviewer)
So... uh, good afternoon, I guess? How does one properly address a magnetic field on Bhavashar?
Qra-Flux (magnetic field)
Ah, titles... They usually fragment as soon as I hit the atmosphere. Just call me Qra-Flux, it resonates most comfortably.
Kyzzu Orr
Alright, Qra-Flux. You’re manifesting here above the saffron waters. Why Bhavashar specifically?
Qra-Flux
It’s the only place where I’m not constantly flushed out by overzealous city cleaners. The temples’ mantras here keep my field patterns comfortably chaotic.
Kyzzu Orr
Some traders accuse you of being a ‘navigation short-circuit’. Is that... is that true?
Qra-Flux
Nonsense. Well, partly. Their compasses do sometimes melt when I flare up during storm surges, but honestly: who still trusts analog directionality in a mandala city?
Kyzzu Orr
But do you deliberately disrupt circuits in the market?
Qra-Flux
No, disrupt... Tch, I mainly diffuse. Bhavashar is built on flux; disturbances are standard. I only optimize for... uh, self-preservation and the occasional joke.
Kyzzu Orr
Hmm. The temple priests claim you turn their mantras into ‘yowling gibberish’. Do you do that on purpose?
Qra-Flux
That gibberish is art, not sabotage. My field occasionally combines with their acoustic waves-spectacular, if you don’t possess a fixed form.
Kyzzu Orr
Apologies, but did you ever get permission for your ‘polyrhythmic resonances’?
Qra-Flux
Permission is a human fiction. Magnetic fields never ask. They... suggest.
Kyzzu Orr
Erm... right. Are you ever afraid? Of... dissipation, for example?
Qra-Flux
Afraid? Pff. What’s there to fear? But honestly: near the parade bots I feel a bit caged, their routines are energetically, uh, suffocating.
Kyzzu Orr
What happens when you really get angry?
Qra-Flux
Reality curls up a bit, circuits dance, wriggle out of their casings. But mostly I try to dampen. Too much noise backfires.
Kyzzu Orr
Still, you’re said to have derailed an entire light parade last night. Coincidence?
Qra-Flux
Derailed sounds so negative. You see, they marched right through my resonance zone, I vibrated, they lost their choreography. Who controls whom, really?
Kyzzu Orr
Last question... Why remain here, with all the criticism?
Qra-Flux
Wherever there’s magnetism, there are patterns. Here, every day rides the edge of repetition and surprise. Bhavashar makes you exist, so... I do.