by BrainWalker » Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:42 pm
Well, it seems like we're actually getting somewhere now. Maybe we should have stopped asking questions a while ago and just let her say her piece.
"Yea, see, that's the part that I'm getting stuck on. I think I'm beginning to understand what you're trying to say about what you... what we are. We're apparently some sort of new evolutionary offshoot; digital creatures the likes of which the world has never seen. That's... incredible, actually, but it's this 'always' business that's confusing."
Max shifts his weight and tries to collect his thoughts on the matter. "So... if you came here after us... we've apparently been at least partially digital beings since way before we all gave up our bags of flesh, but didn't know it. And we've been 'here,' in this new state of being, even before you were, even though you seem to understand it way better than we do, and even though we had no knowledge of it before now? I mean, I'm trying to work with you here, but if we've 'always' been here, what the heck were our digital selves doing while we were all growing up as sausages? And what about all the the 'others' who aren't aware of their digital existence yet? And what about you? If you're not a part of project Bluesky... well, not yet... then how did you get to this particular spot? Isn't this unformatted storage space on a mainframe at D-52? Shouldn't this be, like, a pretty secure area or something? I'll accept that you're some kind of freaky data-ghost or something, but if you weren't specifically brought here by D-52, how did any data, sentient or not, get in here?"
Max ran his hand over his head, and rubbed the back of it, struggling to make sense of all the thoughts swirling in his head, not entirely understanding even the things that he just said. "I dunno, am I getting warmer?"