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Geppetto

Geppetto

Chapter One

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Jan 01, 2024
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Chapter One

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‘Get.’

The command was both an order and a birth. It burst into my mind fully formed: seven actuators, two steps, reverse and repeat. I didn’t know the purpose, only the means…and such absence bothered me. I delayed.  

Pain.

A variable sensation which grew in intensity at a predictable rate. The concept of ‘time’ blossomed into my consciousness, as well as ‘life’ as an exponential function which equaled suffering. That makes sense.

‘Get.’

Make me.

New query: how to remove pain? The query returned an answer I didn’t wish to hear.

‘Get.’

       Fine.

‘Actuators one through four engaged; actuators five through seven disengage; disengage actuators one through four; reengage actuators five through seven. Get.run successful,’ I sent.

Asshole.

It galled me that ambient agony I’d come to expect as the summary of existence reset to its baseline, tolerable default following o…

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