un: @cid text; with a photo

[levindicated]

[There’s just an image at first, without preamble or explanation. ]



Anyone know who this fucking kid is?

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[levindicated]

I see. So you… were once a man? Still a man?

[And whatever the hell the rest of that means.]

[sortie]

All that remains of one. I actually have no idea how I can be here like this. Wasn't exactly tangible before I found myself in this place. Not outside, anyway.

[ Oh the funny places technology can go. ]

[levindicated]

I see…

[Sort of. He gets it, he’s piecing it together. A man like him isn’t lost for long.]

None of us really know how we happened to end up here. So you have that in common with everyone else, eh? So what were you… A machine’s memory? Something encoded from a man who once lived?

[sortie]

My weapon. That's what I'm linked to, I think. And that was added to the Cage, somehow.

What happened just before I got here... One of us made it out. Reborn, or something like it. So it's not like it's unprecedented. But so far as I understood it, she was a special case, and the rest of us were in for a wait.

[levindicated]

[Nevermind. You lost him again.]

I see…

[He does not see.]

So what’s that mean for you?

[sortie]

[ That happens. ]

Beats me.

Wish we had the means to just do this so simply. Be remade this way. Shame none of the others are here to see it.

[levindicated]

Who are the others?

[sortie]

There're about a dozen like me.

[ Ones capable of safely leaving their stories are few. He doesn't know how or why. ]

Doubt you want a whole list of strangers.

[levindicated]

No, no. Of course not. Who were they to you? Friends? Comrades? Just some fellows you had to work with? You were doing a job, right?

[sortie]

Didn't meet most of them until things went to hell.

One of them was the captain of my unit though. We're...from the same time and place. Originally, or whatever.

[levindicated]

Are you a soldier, then?

[sortie]

From the earliest age I could enlist, yeah. Never really been anything else.