by Samantha McManus » Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:49 pm
"So you tried to do what Conduit did. Which was... well, it was bad to begin with."
"Look, I know you're not going to sign on to what I think it is. I get it. All that shite was kind of walled off from you before you... well, you're made of meat now. I can kind of, almost reach your mind now."
Now that Sam's this close there's a bit of a whiff of whiskey on her breath.
"But okay. Science. Science, science, science. This space is hard to reach on your own. It's like a mindscape, but... not. Telepaths can kind of brush up against it, but to really get their hands in they need someone who can get there on their own. Someone like me."
"And this is... well, it's an important place, even if we don't agree on what makes it important. It's necessary, so is it that strange to think that people would emerge in the population to be able to do that? To bridge that, and to help things get back if they get lost here among all the meat?"