ADAW 6/52 - Control
Sorry I'm posting late, life outside dolls was crazy this week! This is a weird, like, section that wouldn't be in the story normally, because the story is supposed to be from John's perspective, and he finds out about this development from Alan. IDK, bonus features or something ;) . As a reminder, Evie is Alan and Claire's cousin, and Morgan is her grown-up childhood imaginary friend, who exists in the dreamworld because Evie's dad put her in the PASIV when she was little.
"Evie, I don't know about this."
"It's going to work. I got into the data from the Cornell experiment on rehabilitating coma patients with dreamshare. They never got anyone to wake up, but the body twitched like it was dreaming when they were in there. So there must be a connection to muscle control, at a minimum. And we're different. You could stay in the body when I left."
"I don't know if I could. I've never been apart from you."
"Of course you have. We work separately in dreams all the time. You think about things in here when I'm gone. You'd just be... thinking about things in a body of your own."
"What about whoever the body belongs to?"
"They're gone. That's what all the experiments were for, to see if they could get those people to wake up. But they can't. You'll just... take up residence in an empty house."
"Someone else's house."
"Someone else's abandoned house. An abandoned car, with no one to control it. What's the point of a car no one drives? What's the point of a body if it's not going to be used?" Morgan turned away, but Evie chased into her, pressing her own face into Morgan's collarbone. "I don't want to be alone in the waking world. I don't want to leave you alone in here. I want us to wake up every day next to each other. It's going to work. And if it doesn't, we just... put the body back. No harm done."
"Getting caught would be pretty harmful. Losing your access to the PASIV."
"Let me worry about that. I have a plan. But we won't need it. You'll wake up in the body."
Morgan pulled back from Evie, studying her face. "Well," she said, "You'll have to find me someone pretty."