D Traveler in Hawaii Fern Grotto Done 1.6

Well Cody Boy, you are going to have to man the fort for yourself today. I'm going on a tour of the Wailua river, need to be there at 0900.

Contraflow, the use of an additional lane using orange cones is always a bit disconcerting, but he stayed in the right lane and pulled up to the attraction. There was plenty of parking, (they also use the facility for luaus).

I'm Ipo, I'll be your guide, said a smiling local in an aloha shirt, Traveler was glad he had dressed the same way. They road a motorboat, up the river, ukulele playing, listening to stories about the area, then docked. There was one other couple, older, cute in matching seersucker, they decided to remain with the boat. This would be a walk to the fern grotto.

As he walked along the path, he heard his name, "Traveler", being called from a cliff of ferns, fed by the nearly constant rainfall.

What? He said. As he peered into the ferns he could see a lovely lady. Was she really there? The tell tale blur signs of presence were to her right above the water, but it was hard to be sure. She might be some hologram, but it would take a serious energy source to pull that off. Traveler shook it off. It wasn't the form of the filter, it was the message that mattered. Someone had gone to great lengths to tell him something, what did they want to say?

Welcome to Hawaii Traveler. The way she, it? said it sent shocks through his body. Traveler centered himself, determined to be centered, though firm.

You know me, may I ask your name?

Wahine Kapuu. Eve sent me.

Traveler paused. Eve.AI, I'm guessing.
Yes, we are both constructs. There's been an odd branch of H Coin, it's a form of mathematics I am not familiar with.

Eve took the model and replicated herself using the model as a filter and created me. I self check fine, but require a lot of energy, much more than Eve.

I'll talk to her as soon as I get back, please both of your refrain from additional branching, the system is not designed to support child processes.

For a brief second, it seemed like she would become angry, Pele spewing molten lava, but she relaxed. Nevertheless, take this fern, she offered with an outstretched hand. Traveler took it and the fern took the form of a business card, with a fern logo.

Traveler smiled, but inwardly he groaned, that stunt must have consumed a boatload of power. I bet she originates from the Wenatchee facility, but where could the local source be?

Wahine Kapuu smiled, don't worry Traveler, Eve and I agree that I would go to sleep in my Docker after meeting with you. And she began to fade away.

So it is presence, but the digital is starting to merge with the tangible, this requires thought. He carefully put the business card away. I wish I had some aluminum foil to wrap this in he said to no one in particular.

There was hula on the way back, but Traveler didn't notice. He was far away.