"Your name is Emmeline Jennings," I mumbled to myself, twisting my hands together as I padded down one of the endless corridors. "No one is watching you, no one. It's safe here. Your name is Emmeline Jennings, and you are safe."
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"You know, it's probably somewhat difficult for other people to hear the words you're mumbling, unless you mean for that, but I don't see why, because really if you think about it there's no need to speak to yourself aloud when you can just do that by thinking," I informed the girl.
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I jumped a little, eyes narrowing as they flickered up from the floor to look at the boy. I was half-convinced he was just a hallucination, but I did the polite thing, reaching out and poking him hard between the ribs. "You're real," I informed him.
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"Maybe, I think I am anyway, but wouldn't I think that even if I wasn't?" I wondered.
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"I think only real people think," I answered unsurely.
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"Then I'm real for sure. I think all the time, really," I assured her. "I'm thinking right now, even. It's hard to stop. It's kind of addicting. Like cigarettes, but with less tobacco."
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"You talk too much," I informed him. "You're lucky the government hasn't started tracking you yet. Unless they have already and I just don't know it."
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"The government does track me," I pointed out. "Or they will soon anyways. I mean, I'll have to do taxes when I get out of here."
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"That wasn't what I meant," I said, a little frustrated. "Don't people follow you around?"
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I considered, "Do the people here count?"
Dark Lord Sassy Pants- Admin
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"Which ones?" I questioned. "There are lots of people here."
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"Nurses and doctors and therapists and I don't know, just a lot of people, I see them every day and they're always trying to get me to eat something or talk to them or take pills or answer questions," I explained.
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"Oh, don't pay attention to those people," I said, waving it off. "It's the stalkers you have to worry about."
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"Stalkers? What stalkers? How would I tell stalkers apart from normal people-?"
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"They're the ones that won't leave you alone," I pointed out. "And they won't let you sleep at night."
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"Do people like that follow you around?" I asked her.
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I nodded, "Oh yes. All the time."
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My eyebrows furrowed, "Who are they? What do they look like? Do they ever talk to you? Are they here now?"
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"Sometimes the medicine makes them go, but mostly they stay," I explained. "They can be very frightening, but if I'm good they're nice."
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I thought about it, "That doesn't sound too bad, though."
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"It doesn't sound too bad?" I repeated, frowning at him. "To have so many people following you your entire life that you can never be quiet sure if anyone is real or if you're just out of your mind, to lie awake at night hearing so many voices at once that you can't sleep, to know that nothing- nothing is ever going to completely make that go away? That doesn't sound too bad to you?"
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I shook my head, "It sounds interesting, I think, but maybe that's just me. Do they listen to the things you say?"
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I shook my head, "It isn't like that."
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"What's it like, then?"
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"It's like Hell," I answered.
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