There’s a voice.
Is that you?
Does it sound like me, Spyder?
And…another voice?
Yeah.
So…I’m not alone here? Oh my-
Shut up. Don’t get excited, you’ve got no idea what’s going on, so just shut up and listen.
But I’m not alone. I’m finally not alone. I have to talk to them.
You’re not alone Spyder. Not while you’ve got me. But you know nothing about what’s going on here, so just trust me. Keep quiet and listen to them.
I want to talk to someone that isn’t you. I just need…some way of communicating with them. Like a mouth, or a body, or headspace-to-headspace IM. Actually, that’s not as dumb…
Yes, yes it is.
But…
Hello? Hello? Hi?
I told you not to.
Why aren’t they answering?
I don’t know. Maybe they aren’t really there. Maybe you aren’t really here.
I’m scared again.
Really scared this time.
…a voice!!! Screw the bold voice’s advice, the new voice is good! ^_^
It isn’t often that bold voice steers her wrong. Think about it, you’re effectively a brain in a jar, wouldn’t the natural reaction be to panic?
… damn you, Stormy, now instead of inclining to believe that Stef is beginning to get closer to reality (aka hear things from the real world), I’m inclining to believe that there’s trouble ahead for her. -_-
…that it’s a voice from the real world?
… I’m not so sure any more.
But you said she’s like a brain in a jar. Hearing a new voice that isn’t from the real world would mean her craziness is mutating. And you also said that the bold voice is keeping her sane, so she won’t be getting any crazier, not while she’s not-dead-but-not-alive-either. So… the new voice she’s hearing could be a voice from the shiny-shiny?
It very well could be. 🙂
… but now comes another question. Is it the voice of the shiny-shiny, meaning the shiny-shiny is like a person and will interact with Stef, or is it one of the voices of the memories the shiny-shiny has kept?
It’s closer to the latter, as the mirrors aren’t that much like people, they have some sort of low-level consciousness/awareness, but that’s more like a leftover echo than it is a real indicator that it can become a person and communicate to the little hacker girl.
…we can expect moar than one voice to appear, no? Eeee, Stef-aka the-brain-in-a-jar is in trouble :p
Stef is hearing voice’s now. Shhhh don’t make a sound, or you will scare them away.
I think it’s kind of, well, crazy that my main character is so comfortable being insane that when she hears a new voice in her head, she automatically assumes that it’s something external, rather than a new level of crazy being generated in her head…
No Stef stay away from the voice… its… its… its a clown… and its got a potato peeler! Or worse… its the author, RUN! … Wait… no body… um, be a brain in a jar in a clown and author proof bunker?
…potato peeler proof! It’s immensely important ^_^
Why does the bunker need to be author proof? I mean, I only killed her in a really weird way just when her life was getting good, it’s not like I’m a monster or something!