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[HAPPY BIRTHDAY] 

"...what?"(looks around to see nothing)....(then realizes it has eyelids)..(it opens its eyes to see a white void filled with cubes floating in space and the platform it is standing on)

"Where am I? it looks like an animes depiction of cyberspace..."

(it goes to the edge of the platform, and looks down)

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..."well, that's a long way down."

(it snatches one of the cubes from the air and inspects it, and sees video playing on the side of the cube)

"curious"

(it lets the cube go and it stays suspended in air)

"...'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English."

...(it covers its mouth) "did I really just say that?"

(it looks around for something to do, but finds nothing)

(it stares down again)" l'appel du vide, the call of the void, it affects even me..."

(it just steps off the edge, eyes closed, falling and falling, but somehow not falling fast)

(as it is falling, it opens it's eyes to see the space around it changing, from white to black, as well as seeing something below it had not seen before: a planet)

"...fuck."