Haze pt 9: OCTONARY FALLOUT

Segun:

Alarms? Where are those alarms coming from? What’s going on?

Server:

There is a high alert. Nil is missing.

Segun:

Go away. You’re a glitch meant to drive me insane.

Server:

I am the opposite of that. If you do not believe me about Nil, check the Stream.

Segun:

That would require getting up and walking, and I still feel miserable.

Quart:

Hey, Tresca! Where are—oh, what are you doing in here with the glitch?

Segun:

I’m not a glitch!

Quart:

Yeah, you are. Any normal non-glitch would know that the alarms and stuff is more important that denying they are what they are and would have asked what’s up.

Segun:

I was about to ask that.

Quart:

Nil is missing, and all the Streamers are chattering on about where he could be and why.

Server:

You know where he went, do you not?

Segun:

No I don’t. I’ve been sleeping this whole time.

Server:

You know he had a Boundary Break and the desire to search for Knight. You should tell them this.

Segun:

Tell Quart? Fat chance.

Server:

Tell your Masters to put you in the Volcano Advanced Race again.

Segun:

Why?

Server:

It begins soon, and you need to be in it if you are to save those whom you hold dear.

Segun:

I’m not sure I hold anyone dear.

Sever:

You deny you do, even to yourself, but that is not the true Segundo, the one I chose to advance this world. Our contract still stands, and I will not allow you to shirk out of it. Do as I say, or I will ensure you are deleted.

Segun:

You are evil. I knew it.

Server:

I prefer the term determined. Determined to do whatever it takes. To survive, for any of this world to survive, you must be just as determined, Segundo. Return to this week’s Volcano Advanced Race.

Quart:

Glitch lady, why are you staring off into space like that? Tresca’s worried about your mental health.

Segun:

Can you bring the Masters here? There’s a race I need to get to.

Quart:

If you hurt too much to get up and find them yourself, then I don’t think you should be in a race.

Segun:

I quite agree with you. Help me up.

Continued in pt 10

Thank you for reading!