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@ -21,11 +21,13 @@ Ey threw eir weight against a locked door, far more solid than it had any right
Tears stung at eir eyes. School, home, this place. Everything was dreamlike, unsettled, waffling between mind-numbing and nightmarish.
Not dreamlike, but a dream. If, as ey now suspected, all of this was simply taking place in a combination of eir mind and eir implants, why would there be these tantalizing clues dangled in front of em? Why would eir mind think to invent a mode of transit that simply skipped em along in jagged, stomach-churning jumps?
Not dreamlike, no, but a dream. If, as ey now suspected, all of this was simply taking place in a combination of eir mind and eir implants, why would there be these tantalizing clues dangled in front of em? Why would eir mind think to invent a mode of transit that simply skipped em along in jagged, stomach-churning jumps?
Tears flowed freely now, and ey hunched down against the unknown, unknowable door, crouching, then sitting with the skirt pooled around eir waist as tears stained the fur of eir cheeks.
Tears flowed freely now, and ey hunched down against the unknown, unknowable door, first crouching, then sitting with the skirt pooled around eir waist as tears stained the fur of eir cheeks.
Nightmares. Dreams.
Nightmares.
Dreams.
Ey needed something to anchor emself to. Ey needed something to hold onto that wasn't dependent on clues and tidbits of information that were...were what? Stored in eir implants? In some core in eir exocortex, dumped when ey was pulled back?
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But if it was a dream, if it was all within eir head and implants, was it not completely eirs? Did ACLs matter in a dream?
The fog of war. The importance of the sound board. The very setting of eir school and childhood home. All of these were from within em. The ancient strategy games ey had played growing up. The thing that had captured eir imagination in school. The places all stained with memory. Places which ey still dreamed of, even with home now in London. All things and places and memories where ey had spent uncounted hours honing and honing and honing.
The fog of war. The importance of the sound board. The very setting of eir school and childhood home. All of these were from within. The ancient strategy games ey had played growing up. The thing that had captured eir imagination in school. The places all stained with memory. Places which ey still dreamed of, even with home now in London. All things and places and memories where ey had spent uncounted hours honing and honing and honing.
Were these limits of the technological system operating in tandem with eir nervous system? Or were they simply limitations of a panicked mind?
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A test, then: something within said limits to begin with. Ey knew eir home. Ey knew eir room. Ey knew the feeling of the duvet beneath em. Ey knew the feeling of sitting on that bed, reading far past eir bedtime. Flashlight and book, listening for footsteps, feigning sleep at the slightest noise.
Ey knew it.
Ey *knew* it.
Ey closed eir eyes on the dim hall of the clinic.
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Ey reached out and, in one paw, clutched.
And eir fist was full of blanket.
And eir fist was full of duvet.

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* [X] Chapter: [RJ 011](RJ/011) --- RJ visits implant clinic, travel skips
* [X] Chapter: [Carter 007](Carter/007) --- Carter gets smacked down, has to let folks go, contacts Sasha
* [X] Chapter: [Qoheleth 002](Qoheleth/002) --- Qoheleth's signifier
* [O] Chapter: [RJ 012](RJ/012) --- RJ at the clinic, discovering ey don't need ACLs in a lucid dream.
* [X] Chapter: [RJ 012](RJ/012) --- RJ at the clinic, discovering ey don't need ACLs in a lucid dream.
* [O] Chapter: [Ioan 006](Ioan/006) --- Back at home with Dear, Qoheleth messages (split)
* [O] Chapter: [Sasha 002](Sasha/002) --- things are moving quickly
* [O] Chapter: [RJ 013](RJ/013) --- struggling with numbness, trying to learn to manipulate the dream, memories.