After stuffing ourselves, and actually feeling the uncomfortable feeling of being stuffed, we were brought to another room. It looked like a meeting room. There was a large table in the middle, a screen thing on one wall, and comfy looking chairs all around the table. We were told to wait there until the doctor came to get us. So we waited, and waited. We were all in a bit of a food coma, and no one really said anything.

Since this was my second time here, I was pretty sure that we were not in the game, or this was some special part of the game. Everything was too real. Eating, bleeding, even peeing. We didn't have the game system to take care of things. Normally you didn't feel stuffed. You could eat as much as you wanted, and never feel like you were going to expload because you ate too much. You never felt hungry, hot, cold, pain, or any of those natural real life things. Everything was numbed. Here I felt pain. I felt hunger. I felt stuffed. I could feel the texture of my tail, and that's when I realized, my tail could feel.

In the game, extra appendages would be almost completely numb. Though, most feeling was a bit numb anyway. Everything had the same texture. It might look different, but it all felt the same. It was almost like you just got some kind of indication that you touched something, without really feeling it. It was just a bit of pressure. The last time I had been here, everything was still a little numb, but there was still way more feeling to everything than in the game. This time, it felt as real as real life, and I could feel things with my tail. Like the chair I was sitting on, or the table, or my clothes. It was a wierd feeling. I could feel from a place that had never felt before, and before anyone says I forgot, I could also feel from my wings. It was the same with my wings as it was for my tail.

So as we sat there digesting, I was getting excited, and a bit scared. If this was real, so many possibilities were openned in front of us. Some good, some bad. Of course we still needed to figure it all out, before we could really do anything, but the possibility was still there.

"Lily, Marcus?" They looked at me with sleeply looks, "I was just wondering. Do you feel, different?"

"Different, how?" Lilly looked a little concerned.

"Like, everthing feels, real? Like it's not a game?"

"Just because the food was, good, doesn't mean that it can't be a game system. Just more realistic than normal. We all know that they have several different worlds that you could play on, and it might just be that this one is a realistic version." Marcus paused for a moment. "It does seem more realistic than I'd expect, but this is all within the realm of possibility. It's not that different. Even the pain you felt was probably just some kind of stimulation from the system."

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"Marcus, shut up." Lily looked completely serious. "I am absolutely sure that this is not the game."

"What, how?"

She looked really uncomfortable. "I just know! This is very real."

Marcus and I looked at each other, and he kind of made the gesture that means 'you try'. I wasn't sure I actually wanted to try, Lily looked uncomfortable just thinking about whatever it was. So I figured I'd just offer my support without forcing it on her.

"Lily, if you ever want to talk, I'm a great listener. And I promise I won't tell Marcus."

"Hey, I want to know all her secrets."

She kind of smiled, "Thanks Bwyd. I'll definitely take you up on that later."

"I feel so left out. Why are you two the only ones who are sure this is real? That would be amazing. I've done plenty of reading... Lily, what happened to your supper embarrassment?"

Lily had an evil grin on her face, "I can prove that this is real."

"How?" Marcus seemed cautious.

"Well, you know that certain things are not allowed in the game, right?"

"There's a lot that isn't allowed. What, specifically, are you talking about?"

"X rated stuff."

Marcus' face immediately turned red. "I'm not interested in you that way."

Lily's bell laughter rang out, "Idiot, I don't want you to do it with us. Find a room and do it yourself. I know you've tried before."

His face became a bit more red, "We aren't supposed to leave this room."

"Your loss."

We all kind of sat there in silence, I was a bit shocked at Lily's complete change in atitude, though it did stop Marcus from asking questions. Before too much longer someone came in and told us the doctor wanted to see us in the augur machine room, so we followed him. On the way out, I heard Marcus whisper "You were right" to Lily, and Lily quietly giggled.

The doctor was waiting in the augur machine room, but he had a few crystal structures in there, that weren't there before. There were three around where we had appeared. They looked like six foot tall radio towers made out of crystal, and they had a thin glowing line connecting their tops. In the middle of them was a ball of light. The doctor was standing near them looking at his ball tablet.

"Good, you are here. I have managed to stabilize the residual energy that you three left behind, but I am unable to interact with it. It seems to reject any attempt I make to control or absorb it. Can any of you do anything with this?"

Marcus stepped closer, "From what I can tell, this appears to be some kind of magical energy, from the place we came from."

"If that's the case you should be able to do something with it. You should resonate. All we've been able to do is contain it here. There was more when we first discovered it, but it was dispersing. Just reach your hand in, let's see what happens."

Marcus reached his hand in, and was immediately thrown back about twenty feet. It looked like he was struck by lightning that came from the ball of light. A couple of the other people in the room rushed over to him, but he jumped up before they got to him.

"Eureka! I know what happened!"