You were late I couldn't get to sleep you exhaust me
To just be with something
Every night I dream of a boy
I'd really love to meet you
What do you need
The real me awake meeting the real you
Perfect here though, isn't it? What if we could
I
Can't sleep yet
Good morning, it's not morning
Feel like I haven't slept all night your job your
Times you can come home last night
Don't wait up
Where are we now? I
Love this place
I
Did something crazy and game yeah, I'm not looking for you
Really oh
you found me I
mean in real life I
was starting to believe
believe what
And you're actually real
Of course I'm real like told you have you ever looked for me like when you're awake at all
Is everything okay Kathy I
Finally love someone and I can't be with him
Good you're letting yourself feel closeness
Closeness I want me
I'm sorry Kathy. These treatments are just lucid enhancements
You
So you just here to talk that's right, I'm surprised you still do that
Do what talk
I mean, don't you just
You know
Most clients in your circumstance prefer speech they find more standard forms of communication
Uncomfortable and you're here to make me comfortable. You're my client. It's my job. I
Thought your job was to keep me in line I
Mean that's why the checkups right Alina. It's my job to check on your progress your well-being
You haven't been able to find work
You attended reclamation training this month no support services
Is that a problem no
Support service is a voluntary and I know how hard it can be for people in your circumstance if I'd work my circumstance
We have such nice ways of talking about it, don't we
My circumstance my
condition
My negative assessment
We're so polite about it
a glove
Look
a window
Do you think they new
Do you think they knew her harder to be
Reclamation laws haven't passed. Then things were a lot more fluid uncertain
We didn't care for your kind then as much as we do now, when did your kind become so common
When did you outnumber us there's no official date for it, but it's believed to be about 25 years ago
You know would have been six
Then I'm telepaths a lot
like one in ten
Actually, it's more like one in fifteen
so
What started as a?
Free quality is now more common than the average hair color
Does it upset you to be a minority
Does it upset me
That was the
That was the first time I ever heard someone else's thoughts in my head
It was the first time that
Someone's emotions were strong enough to penetrate into my
Backward non telepath brain
It was
It was absolute contempt
It was hatred
And it came from my mother
It's difficult for telepathic parents to form bonds with their non children
We form bonds
emotional connections so much differently
It's why the reclamation act was passed?
to address changing social needs
Social needs
But not ours
What do you honestly expect the government to do just leave these kids on the streets?
Child abandonment has reached record levels but fostering dropped in nearly zero and what does that say about us as a society?
That it has become acceptable to abandon our children because they are biologically different. There's an about biology
Alexis it's about people's willingness to embrace change
Team-based reality those reclamation centers are not embracing reality, Wayland
They are one step away from internment camps. It is bigger
This is what I'm really sick and tired of people like you
Comparing me to an anti-semite yelling bigotry just because you can't accept the basic undeniable reality
How long until non telepaths are barred from having jobs?
bad from owning property bad from raising their own children
They say it couldn't happen here
How long until we are simply considered less?
The reclamation Center is where you learn to draw hmm
You're drawing. It was part of your reclamation therapy, wasn't it? Don't do that. Do what that
Stringy thing where you ask me a question and then you read my mind for every thought it brings up
It's a fairly standard conversation technique. Yes. I know that I have to say I'm not impressed with your use of the word stringy
I thought well beyond slurs like that. I don't refer to you as shade or Devo. I would hope for a similar courtesy
You're right. I'm I'm sorry
I'm sorry
Animosity isn't uncommon in people like you
But you can't let it fester into anger or hatred
You can't let it turn into something cruel
Hey someone's far from huh?
Haven't you heard slumming with the shades is new anything
Where oddities like a circus
String is I'll never understand them
It's just not the same the same as what as real music
Maybe say Lina
Maybe see
Okay, do you know what they made him see
Him
What they thought about him how they felt about him
And it was nothing but contempt
Reading a non telepath is relatively easy. All you need to do is concentrate
But to send thoughts takes very strong emotions, like disgust or compassion or even love
But you're right that negative emotions elicit stronger reactions. And the reaction is the fun
That's why the street markets were closed
By places like this community. We're set up some non telepaths can live as they choose
You know, I don't know what's worse
Those who hate us all the people who don't think about us at all
Please have your ID and T rating card ready?
Just a reminder do not hold up the line have your ID and t rating card ready?
Okay, if you do not have a t rating card sorry, there is no work for you today no T rating no work
Excuse me
Excuse me, sir
I'm a skilled worker. I've done draft work before so I can do factory or construction work
nobody does written plans anymore because no one has the time to explain things to
Now, do you have any t rating at all?
Then there's no worksheet
There are times for elegance and there are times when words fail us
Today I'm searching for eloquence and finding only failing words
For today words give way to thoughts
Music and poetry
Discourse
Give way to carrier waves
Feelings transmitted through a technology for mass consumption
When I was young I dedicated myself to journalism
To the integrity and truth of the Fourth Estate
Today is the final verbal broadcast of this network or any network
The gift of telepathy has left eloquence behind
No estates remain
Where once there was violence now it is silence that adds deeper darkness
to a night already devoid of stars
She may not have been telepathic but
She could foretell the future
She lives here, you know
Well done there
After they after they released her from transitional reclamation they put her in a share room down the street
I'd see her sometimes and all that fire and all that intellect just gone
I'd look into her eyes and
I'd wonder how someone could be so broken and then I'd go to work
Miss Evers
By agreeing to participate in this study. You understand it. You've knowledge that. These substances haven't been fully cleared for human use
And you must report any side effects or reactions you experience
Your negative T rating we require your verbal consent for our official records
Understand
Medical research is honest sanctioned work. I
Never understood why you left the field?
People like me we can't be
doctors
We can't be public servants or builders we can't even be waiters
But we can be lab rats
What kind of a government
What kind of a world sanctions that a safe world a caring world
Medical Research allows you to contribute in a real practical way
It gives you value I
Already had value
Hey Hey, how was school today good?
They went to that family trace today, yeah, that sounds like fun. Okay. How come we never see Grandma and Grandpa?
Because they live in the city and we don't go to the city do we
Taking honey. Oh, yeah. I don't think they'd like it. He's ready
What's that for because she said
Nothing okay, but you always get sad talking about Grandma and Grandpa
No
Mom. Mm-hmm. Where's my dad? I
Don't know so if you know you can never do that well, okay, so if you can never try and read me right never
They teach you that at school. Did they did they?
if they be testing you, I'm
Sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, sweetie. I'm sorry, but listen, you can't read people
Not at home, not at school. All right
If they want you to do it at school. I just want you to pretend that you can't
You have to pretend you can't okay
Did you feel anything
When you took my daughter
When you took the one thing that was good about my life
Did you feel anything
It was for the best
For who?
for your daughter
for Sophie
She's with the family in the city that loves her and can express it in a way that she understands
She's at a school that embraces her talents and gives her a future
There is no future here
Who gives you the right
It's not about right Alena
It's reality
I need to inform you that this will be your last verbal progress session
The reality is that ongoing support services are no longer a priority
Well
Where it was once violence
It is now silence that adds deep darkness
to an ice already devoid of stars
Within human intellect lies a certain determination
To explain the unexplainable
To know and understand all that surrounds us
From one second to another this determination is tested within the balance of this planet and those that go beyond our age
And so begins the foreshadowing of an alteration to familiar a
Sort of catalyst to our equation
A simple transformation that quietly exceeds even the most promising of our certainties
How's the testing going
Something's happened and I can't identify it. But it's there. What do you mean? You can't identify it look here
What does this mean for all the previous data you were getting somewhere right I need to do more testing maybe the samples faulty
But I've never seen anything like this
Hold on hold on. I'll clean out the keyboard good. Thanks
No matter what we do the alteration makes its way into all possible variables
Our methods systems collected data only lead us further away from any conclusion
We try and try once more desperate for any sort of answer
But what's about to happen is beyond what we could ever know
Maybe change like this
You're so close new sets gonna arrive in the morning and then we'll know for sure
What sets in
So close it's not possible
Connected now
We need to leave
Sammy we need to leave
Connected
- ends unaware of their profound significance connect together in violent harmony
Every ounce of control and order is overturned leaving us to be consumed by our own imaginations
Every action, it comes in closed by another growing exponentially with no end in sight
Finally the alteration overwhelms our awareness completely
We are no longer blinded by normalities or simplicity's
What is eminent at this moment is the monopoly of a phenomena two strikes deep within every inch of our utter leaf deficient
When we find ourselves face to face with an unseen entity
One beyond time and space
Beyond logic
And beyond comprehension
And Bianca
There is no hypothesis there can be no Theory there is only silence
Restate symptoms of infection
Stage 1 fever
Disorientation memory
Loss
hallucination paranoia
Stage to
dehydration
aggression blisters on hands and feet
violent psychosis
seizures
Stage three
It's stage 2 brains already infected
Are you sure?
Stomach already contains gonna die cells just like the others have some to eat you do
Well, um, we can go out again tomorrow. Come on. It's the first good sample had in months even my gets disgust
You know what this means, right
Atención coffee
They used to be a million reasons not to stop
Not to die
Well, that's just her
You could die tomorrow
18 weirdo right in your face
I'm saying if I don't elope with you tomorrow run away
Okay, okay run away
You're saying if I don't run away with you tomorrow, he's struck by a lorry
I'm just saying that at some time our hearts are gonna stop
Let's just agree to disagree surely you disagree with what death I'm supposing speculation
So one good pair of you and all of a sudden you're two favors to die, well Fame is only fleeting maybe
Riis tie symptoms of infection
Birthday symptoms of infection
Restate symptoms of infection
Restage symptoms of infection
You
Then coming back now
Here it again we specialize in getting you back to the place you hold dear if you're watching this
You're one of the first in the world to experience again
We developed and patented the only procedure capable of simulated tight placement
curious
Come see us today
After all, everyone's got that place they like to visit again
You see been the human brain it's an incredible technology
It it stores every encounter every every detail we've ever experienced
sights
Sounds smells
Even
What we do because we'd gather all the details from your memory can we project them?
onto a three-dimensional space
for your brain to interpret
I
Know some left to comprehend, but it's real and it's changing people's lives
Come on I want to show you something
What are these
These are all places people wanted to revisit
Hundreds of people cope you those doors
Looking for closure
looking for hope
looking for a reason
Why wouldn't you even want to relive this
You know, sometimes it hurts less second time around you
Aren't actually reliving the moment
We're just playing it back I
Mean you can't interact with anybody or change anything
But you do feel
Been there any place you'd rather be again?
Take a look at these papers and then sign at the bottom
These will sort of help us find the moment
There are some common side effects dizziness and headaches most agree it's a small price to pay
So Ben are we taking you today?
You know that moment between moments the time that hangs between words
Not sure I want to go see when you get back
I
Had a lot of fun tonight yeah. Yeah I did I did too yeah
Um, thanks for thanks for coming tonight. Yeah, do you think everyone that goes to do with you
not all the time, but
What I'm thankful, I I do
Well, I better go inside
Yeah, um, I
Can I'll text you sometime, okay?
Shh yeah, sometimes I think my dates
There I'm gonna kiss you
How was it can I get some water
Been under back
Hey, welcome back
Then good to see you again
Everyone that you work with us here. I
Had a party for you and we're all waiting around and I had to tell him to leave because he didn't show up so
How does that happen
On elegant I didn't know you're rapping I don't understand why this is such a big deal big deal
The side effects
We're all documented behind a sign. Look please just let go of my shirt so we can talk like normal human beings, please
Thank you
And
You seem to misplace you for a bit. I apologize for that
We may have slightly altered your aging process of data. Why didn't you tell me that this could happen?
All the documents that you sign
This can't be happening
Everything has a cost bin. I
Think I need to go back why did I remember when you told me
Things hurt less the second time around
No, no, I won't risk it I won't do it I'm your agent you fast and
Just too much it'll risk
More verse than me going public with this I
Hope you find what you're looking for
I'm really sorry
Do you want to get out of here?
So how have you been
Okay, how's work
No work you're gonna have to say something I just
You got me back now
Again
You
You
