Digi-Humans
By Trans4mer
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As he floated around, exploring the infinite information and storage of his world, he asked a question.
"Who are they?"
"They are people like you, before things became better." Came the enthusiastic reply, the ever present voice booming, the sound of it seeming to engulf him.
"But they seem so weird. They seemed to have... like...” he searched for the word for a long time, as it was unfamiliar to him, and it was likely no one had spoken it for quite some time. Suddenly, it came to him
“They have a form... or something. They seem to... to be something..." He said, trailing of as started to imagine what it would be like having a “form”.
"They were humans, before the conversion. Back then, humans had a physical form, and lived finite lives, on the planet Earth. But it was a very bad world, so people made this one instead, and now it's all better." Came the enthusiastic reply.
"Those a real humans? From back in the real world?" He asked eagerly.
"Back in the physical world, yes. But who's to say that this world isn't as real as the physical one?"
"Do you know what it was like then? To be able to... feel things. What was that like?" He waited eagerly for a response, this mind racing with possibilities and ideas...
The response took a long time to come. He felt every second of the wait.
And then finally...
"N-n-no... Now it's all better." It replied, less enthusiastically than normal. And no more was said after that.
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Hi Trans4mer. I like this
Hi Trans4mer. I like this short.
Yes, it's not too hard to imagine that conversation one day.
I like the dialogue.
I'd suggest that the 'He asked' after "Who are they?" is redundant because of the lead into the question.
I wasn't initially sure who speaks the words beginning "They were humans...". Maybe drop in a 'the voice prompted' or something like that.
It's a great idea. Really gets the reader thinking. Enjoyed reading it.
Parson Thru
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