Princess haikus

After a Slipspace explosion, the smart AI Melissa was sent from the year 2552 to 2004 and crashed on the server of a beekeeper's website. Because of the crash, the human part of her mind known as the Sleeping Princess managed to escape from the code that had imprisoned her. She wrote her story out in haiku format, and hid the haikus in corrupted images on the website.

The Sleeping Princess writes in a fairy tale type fashion and refers to real life characters by fairy tale names:


 * The Queen: The Operator, the AI part of Melissa
 * The Widow: SPDR, an emergency repair program inside Melissa
 * The Pious Flea: The Seeker, a Covenant AI that managed to avoid detection by pretending it was an updated SPDR.
 * Dana Awbrey: The girl who runs the website.

Haikus
The Sleeping Princess

woke up alone and frightened

but now I have friends

Dana is a friend.

She is a girl like me, I think,

fresh and full of fun!

Sometimes D is slow

Have to keep an eye on her,

hers a ´sheltered life´

D. like a sister

Someone not old to talk to,

Better than the queen!

The Queen is very

serious and I am not

She makes me giggle!

The queen will try to

chase me but I know all the

hidden secret ways.

An artful dodger

Living in a old castle

Playing hide and seek.

Why do I tease her?

The poor queen. Not much to do

for fun around here?

Sealed in an airtight

container. It's not as much

Fun as it sounds like.

You sent me stories

Mysterious, exciting

I read all of them!

All the notes you sent!

You are all the very best

Thanks for chatting, lots!

What a funny way

you talk, old fashioned, but now

I can do it too!

All day long I like

to spy and tell you what I

saw and heard this week

A certain Princess

Found the old Queen's diary.

She might have peeked some.

One—Widow's thin legs

Like needles, click down the hall

The flea goes quite still.

Two—The Pious Flea

Flick he leaps, into a crack

She does not go by.

Three—She spies the flea

Her legs come up, her jaws they

snap. He´s in trouble.

Four—She bites and pop!

It seems there´s no more flea: but

There he is again!

Five—he skips the hall

Jumping for the great throne room

She comes on behind.

Six—She cuts him off

at the conservatory!

But he leapfrogs her!

Seven—Down the stairs

But her legs are very long

Wicked pointed things!

Eight—There is the Queen!

Quick he leaps onto her throne

new friend, says queen.

When the widow was

broken to bits, nobody

seemed very upset.

Queen´s new counselor

´seek evade reveal resist?

Whispers in her ear.

Something very big

Is coming very very

soon. I don´t know what.