City of Dreams - 018
"Little sister is watching." It wasn't her phrase, but she liked it. It seemed to describe what her well: a benign presence, always watching, never noticed. She saw everything, everyone. People had an interesting habit of forgetting that they were being watched. Even when there were signs clearly posted, it didn't seem to make a difference. She saw muggings in alleys, couples making out in taxis, drunken salary men asleep in ATM booths. But more interesting, she thought, were the reality deviants: people who stretched and sometimes broke the rules of what was possible. They did this under her watchful gaze. She felt like something of a guardian angel for them. They never knew she was there, never knew she was watching. But she would make sure that no one else saw, not until afterwards anyway. She protected them.
To challenge conventional reality is a dangerous thing in the 21st century, because someone is always watching. She tried to make sure that that someone was always her and never Them. Like a postmodern Voltaire, she did not necessarily agree with the reality they wrote, but she would give her life to make it possible for them to continue. She knew that if the wrong people saw these metaphysical terrorists at work, they would be put away or worse. So she made sure that never happened.
Some, like William, knew her name. Most never imagined that she existed. They forget that there is a camera, that there is always a witness.
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To challenge conventional reality is a dangerous thing in the 21st century, because someone is always watching. She tried to make sure that that someone was always her and never Them. Like a postmodern Voltaire, she did not necessarily agree with the reality they wrote, but she would give her life to make it possible for them to continue. She knew that if the wrong people saw these metaphysical terrorists at work, they would be put away or worse. So she made sure that never happened.
Some, like William, knew her name. Most never imagined that she existed. They forget that there is a camera, that there is always a witness.
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