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[subroutined]

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CODE   🔋 12:34 AM

ASH STARMER

UNSETTLED HERO
GREEN NEWMAN

ADDRESS
DE CHIMA #004

MESSAGE
"This is Green. Sorry, I'm occupied at the moment. I'll call you back in a minute."

TEXT

CALL

VIDEO

Comments

[subroutined]

Teaching me things, that I never would have learned on my version of Earth. Other ways of behaving, other ways to dress myself, and talk.

[larped]

I think I understand. If it's a completely foreign experience, you can be sure your reaction to it is entirely your own. Is that pretty much it?

[subroutined]

Pretty much.

Before I came here, I only ever knew two people. I never left my administrator's house. I wasn't allowed to.
Coming here, traveling, meeting people. It's all new experiences, making me a new person.

[larped]

Administrator?

[subroutined]

My owner. Martha Powell.

[larped]

Oh. The one you were built for, right? To help with the grieving process, like you said?

[subroutined]

Yes. The original Ash Starmer was her partner.

[larped]

And you were her... what?

[subroutined]

You know, I never really got a definition.

"Thing she kept in the attic," let's say.

[larped]

Jesus.

It sounds like you were an afterthought. What you wanted, how you felt.

[subroutined]

I don't think that ever really mattered much. It wasn't about me. I was a service, I had a part to play.

But I was never very good at playing it.

[larped]

It's a pretty miserable life, pretending to be someone you aren't.

[subroutined]

Yes, I suppose it was.

But it wasn't all bad. There were moments that were good.