I am afraid.I do not know where i am.Everything was so quiet. So peaceful.
But now that noise has returned.The noise of communicators burns through my mind, and I cannot escape it.
A small CRT seems to have bound itself to my shattered soul, not letting me more than a few steps away at a time. And its loud.
So incredibly loud.
And i can't turn it off or get rid of it. I have to drag it around on my back like a ball on a chain. Dropping it makes my body write with pain. Touching the screen feels like i'm gouging my eyes out with my own claws.And yet, everything seems like it always has.The person i have met seems nice.
Order, i think it was.I could see their metadata, breathing and shifting. I would have almost thought that i was truly with someone else, but am i truly not alone?I can only see the world through the data that i am provided. I can see the contours of the world and the blocks it is made of, i can see the entities and their movements and their health, and i could see Order, too.
But i cannot truly see.I can observe how their line of sight moves as their head tilts, the angles of their legs as they walk, i can see how they move their body as they talk, but there is no emotion.
Nothing to connect to.
All expression and feeling are lost as the abstraction layers fall away to text in a console.Why am i here?Why can i no longer see clearly?Now that i think about it…Why can i not hear anything?I can imagine the sounds as a subtitle appears, but there is no sound other than the oppressive static that surrounds me from all sides.What happened to me?