002; voice
[the audio feed turns on for a few seconds before a boy begins to speak. He's still just as quiet as his first message on that rainy day and speaks as softly, but the shock and the anxiety are gone. Instead, there is a heaviness in his voice---it sounds as if he's dreading his own words.]
Excuse me. I'm sorry for bothering you with these questions, but there is one that I've been wondering about this past week. It's a little bit silly. Just a thought I had while thinking about our situation, nothing more. Please feel free to ignore me if you want to, it's just an idle curiosity.
It's just...it looks like everyone remembers very different things, before we woke up in that machine. Why is that? Wouldn't it be easier to integrate us into this society, or to make us believe---if there's something shared between us? Any little thing at all, is even that beyond their control? If it's rewriting everything, shouldn't it---
No. Well, I----I suppose the question I really wanted to ask is, if you were dreaming, and when you wake up that dream has came true, where would you say truth ends and lies begin? Wouldn't that make a difference to you? Why didn't that happen? Why all these...elaborate lives, all these things we used to own?
.....It's really quite silly, isn't it? I'm sorry for wasting your time...
[there's a nervous laugh at the end. This isn't the real question Seth wants to ask, of course, but it'll have to do. On the off chance that all of this might be real, since he still hasn't woken up yet...and things are so much more stark and vivid than the ends of the world that he had seen before.]
I suppose I'll need to find a place to work. And a place to stay.
Excuse me. I'm sorry for bothering you with these questions, but there is one that I've been wondering about this past week. It's a little bit silly. Just a thought I had while thinking about our situation, nothing more. Please feel free to ignore me if you want to, it's just an idle curiosity.
It's just...it looks like everyone remembers very different things, before we woke up in that machine. Why is that? Wouldn't it be easier to integrate us into this society, or to make us believe---if there's something shared between us? Any little thing at all, is even that beyond their control? If it's rewriting everything, shouldn't it---
No. Well, I----I suppose the question I really wanted to ask is, if you were dreaming, and when you wake up that dream has came true, where would you say truth ends and lies begin? Wouldn't that make a difference to you? Why didn't that happen? Why all these...elaborate lives, all these things we used to own?
.....It's really quite silly, isn't it? I'm sorry for wasting your time...
[there's a nervous laugh at the end. This isn't the real question Seth wants to ask, of course, but it'll have to do. On the off chance that all of this might be real, since he still hasn't woken up yet...and things are so much more stark and vivid than the ends of the world that he had seen before.]
I suppose I'll need to find a place to work. And a place to stay.