Wednesday, December 7, 2022

MARIONETTES - CONVERSATION EXCERPT 1

!FORMER OUTPUT FROM 10.10.2022!

- Searching for user Riley_Donnelly...
- User found via remote communicator
- Recording audio...
- Transcribing audio...
- Audio transcribed to best of system ability

[Penelope_Adams]: Hey, you okay?
[Riley_Donnelly]: Jesus... you scared me.
[Penelope_Adams]: Sorry. I didn't want to wake you, but you were making sounds in your sleep.
[Riley_Donnelly]: What kind of sounds?
[Penelope_Adams]: At first you were murmuring. Then, it progressed to full-on wailing. Like you were being hurt.
[Riley_Donnelly]: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you.
[Penelope_Adams]: Do you want to talk about it?
[Riley_Donnelly]: It's... well. I've been having the weirdest dreams lately.
[Penelope_Adams]: Different dreams?
[Riley_Donnelly]: Same dream for the past few nights.
[Penelope Adams]: What happens?
[Riley_Donnelly]: Lately, I've been... I see an empty city in my dreams. Each time, I find myself in front of a building. I go inside, and I see a corpse.
[Penelope_Adams]: A corpse? Whose?
[Riley_Donnelly]: I'm not sure. They're not... well, they don't look human. They feel familiar, but I can't place them.
[Penelope_Adams]: Did anything happen?
[Riley_Donnelly]: That's the strangest part. They just sit still, unmoving, and stare. They don't have eyes, but I know they're looking at me.
[Penelope_Adams]: That sounds... unsettling.
[Riley_Donnelly]: It gets worse. I can't move my head, so I'm stuck staring right back at them. Both of us still as statues, staring.
[Penelope_Adams]: I'm sorry, dear.
[Riley_Donnelly]: And worst of all, I can hear something--someone--moving behind me. There's flashes of quiet rustling, moments of hurried footsteps, that tip me off. And they're getting closer to me during each dream. Whoever it is almost found me this time, but you woke me up.
[Penelope_Adams]: I'm glad I woke you up, then. That sounds like an awful dream. Do you want to stay up for a bit to calm down?
[Riley_Donnelly]: No, I'll be okay. It's just a dream, after all, and we need our sleep. I'm just glad I'm not alone in the real world.
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