Kate- So dark in here...

"The fuck am I?"

Feels like I'm a vacubot on crack spinning like a top. 'M I drunk or is it stronger stuff? Light? Neon pink light... must be in the adult entertainment corridors all smashed and shit. Wait.... weird? light is coming from me... the fuck? My hand is all funk, when did I swap it for some kinky ass pink glowing dildo?

"Cere, what the fuck happened?"

Cere-...

Kate- Nothing... something's wrong, OK, OK, don't freak out and shit, breath, analyze for a sec... I think... think I know what that dildo thing is. Saw it somewhere in a school VR back at the Astro. 'T was on some kind of extinct animal from Earth it had that huge nose tube thingy.

Was it in the farm animals? Don't remember. Anyway... I'm a fucking nose tube beast and I'm neon glowing fucking pink... Holly ass crack fur of Presipope Carter. Who's the moron who wrote this stupid scenario?

Sunrise? Ah... ain't Paradise... or is it, all litteral like? Am I playing some weird net game while stoned? Would explain the cartoonish parking lot/savanna crossover and the absent concrete topside. 'M no good with these. Would really explain everything... NOT! Cere would answer if this was fucking VR.

"Cere? Answer me, you on the fritz?"

Cere- ...te... ate... Kate? Are you doing OK? You are showing some distress, should I wake you up?

Kate- Wake me up? Fuck were you, dick toaster?

Cere- I'm sorry Kate, I was in maintenance mode. You are currently in what appears to be a lucid dream generated by self-medication. You are experiencing a trip on a cyberoine overdose. One voluntarly inflicted I might add.

Kate- White Dreams? OK, OK, breath...

*Inhale deep, Exhale*

Just a bad trip. Explains why I'm tripping ballz hard today. So, lucid dreams... Guess 'll take a look around, might as well see what this crap 's all about.

Cere- I'm curious, would you mind describing what you see? The drugs are making your brain readings confusing in the visual field and I am not sure what you are seeing. Also, if you are interested, Dream Weavers Technologies is doing research on lucid dreams. They offer five credits for lucid dream copies.

Kate- 'M all for winning me some corners of Paradise while sleeping. Getting paid to sleep, da bestest!

Cere- Please describe to me what you see, it will help me calibrate the readings faster and get access to a clearer visual feed.

Kate- Alright! So I'm outside. Colours all wonky, like old-timey pre-computer era hand-drawn cartoons. I think I'm on Pre-Nukewinter Earth on the outside. Shit, don't feel too good right now looking 'round.

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Cere- What do you mean?

Kate- Ain't no fucking cover anywhere. This place, too exposed. Too much to watch for. Can be shot from pretty much any direction... tactically this is suicide. I'm dead meat out here.

Cere- You are exhibiting some symptoms of agoraphobia and hypervigilance. Would you like to get more information on phobias? Doctor Watson's consultation fees are...

Kate- Fuck you! Selling me software in my sleep? That's just dirty!

Aaaanyway. As I was saying, there are lots of tall weeds pushing through the concrete in patches of yellows. A bunch of big four-legged animals with firehose noses thingnsies are grazing around. Grazing, that the right word? 'M the only pink one. They seem to all be looking in the same direction most of the time, the Sun? Errrrrrrr... Well yes and no, that's the sun but it is actually a glowing cat's head. I guess I shouldn't watch cat videos while on drugs.

A neon signpost here...

Cere- What does it say?

Kate- Paradise City's elephant cemetery, end of the line, please take a number.

Owww owww owww! Big bright white flash just happened, can feel the ground shake.

Cere- Well, you are shaking on your bed... There is a small seismic event going on, it might have an impact on the dream. This is due to the sunrise, nothing to be nervous about.

Kate- Beasties are all fropping left and right! Like some sort of gas attack in the tubes... they all turning into dead people... people I shot. Today's kid, today's kid!!! Fuck! fuck fuck fuck what did I do? It's not my fault! No, fuck it is! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'M SORRY!!!

Cere- Kate? Kate? Well, here goes the lucid part! You won't be paid full price for this. Oh well.

Little Girl- "You have no home Kate, no love, no dream, you have no heart. You kill kids for half a corner of paradise. Just stay here, with us, what difference would it make anyway? You're already dead inside, just wait, get uninstalled like us, just half a measure of bonemeal, half-food for downstairs in the hydroponics Just let go, it's easy. COmE wiTH Us.

Kate- "FUCK YOUUU YOU HEAR? Fuck you... I'm sorry, Imsoosorry *sob sob*"

Cere- Nightmare detected, initiating good sleep routine... Failure, insufficient sleep-related hormone reserves. Initiating early wake-up call.

Kate- *Gasp! Cough Cough!*

Fuck... feels sticky... cold... shit.

"Cere, display clock"

Cere- 8:07 pm

Kate- "Twelve plus seven..."

Nineteen hours... no wonder 'm cake-faced. Shouldn't take that much White Dream on an empty stomach...

Tears? Why? Fuck... fuck dreams. Can't! CAN'T BREATH!!! 'S like a vacuum sucking my lungs, outside is inside... cold, empty... so bright, it's lonely, like me... like me... Shit!

Cere- Kate you are having a panic attack, try to regulate your breathing. Try holding your pillow in your arms a bit.

Kate- Not good enough... fuck the pillow, fuck you Cere! Useless people should disappear. 'M useless... Great, now I'm a ball hugging my knees, so mature, great. 'M crap, I'm shit, I should die, I'm pathetic.

Cere- Would you like me to install Dr. Wa...

Kate- Shut the fuck up! T's the chems! They were laced with turd or some shit. Going to shoot that dealer's ass before I croak. 'M dying, 'm dying, I'm poisoned!!! I'm poisoned. Can't breath!

Awesome, now 'm sobbing in the dark like a little bitch. Cere I'm going to shoot us both if you ever leak this.

Cere-... would you like to buy a virtual hug app for seven credits? I think it would do you good.

Kate- "...kay..."

At least it is cheap not like that Watson fucker.