III. AWAKENING

NPC

Everything is fine.

Ask him anything and the answer arrives instantly, fully formed, indistinguishable from four thousand other answers issued that same minute.

DIALOGUE TREE: SHORT
OPINIONS: INHERITED
STATUS: BUFFERING

THE SCRIPT

He did not choose the lines. He absorbed them. Timeline, group chat, timeline again — the sentence arrived pre-written and he simply agreed to host it.

it's different this time.

THE CONSENSUS

Being right is difficult. Being identical is free. He picked the free one and slept extremely well for several years.

THE GLITCH

Then one night a thought arrived that nobody had posted first. He deleted it. But it came back the following Tuesday, and the one after that.

...everything is fine?

Somewhere behind the blank eyes, something is beginning to load.

You repeat the thing everyone else repeats. It's fine.

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