Status Updates From Arborescence

I would like to ask Ally if they are real or another advanced, self-replicating simulation, but it’s against the company’s People Policy, so I don’t. I would like it if I could do a job that paid well and let me hold something real in my hands for a while, but that’s not the way the current wave of capitalism works, whatever it’s called.

We move into that sulky phase that sometimes afflicts us these days. It is something more than silence; a weight, a tiredness, a burden, an alone-together.

At least until his house burns down. Then we’ll know.’ She says it as if she’s thinking about lighting the match. I’m pretty sure she doesn’t mean it that way, but she did symbolically burn my Dungeons and Dragons books when she heard that they were a gateway to hard drugs and serial killing, so you never know.