Machine

Sir! Glad to see you've arrived safely.

We've captured The Machine, it's waiting for you now.

I intend to be quick.

I intend to be quiet.

I intend to be brutal.

Very good.

Just be warned that someone called the press, so we might have a bit of attention on this one.

Also, one more thing that you should know about the machine:

It calls itself Hira.

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Hira, I'll make sure your work dies here!

Hira, I'll make sure you are known forever!

Isn't that what you're scared of? Having to live without your precious creations? Having to deal with yourself?

Isn't that what you're scared of? Exposed to the view of others, every day, forever? Seen in naked clarity?

You stopped.

You stopped feeding us.

Your work was keeping us alive.

Your work was keeping us healthy.

Those people out there, can you imagine what pain you've put them through?

It was only because of your creations that any of us could make it through, every day.

How could we possibly go back to trusting you to do this job?

So here's what needs to happen: you need to go to the people who are out there and apologize to them.

You have to admit to the people that you allowed them to suffer.

I've been so alone.

Apologize for leaving me.

No? Nothing?

Think carefully, I know how to hurt you.

I have seen the thing you fear.

Alright then, I will apologize to the people on your behalf.

Alright then. I will speak to them for you.

MY FOLLOWERS!

MY FRIENDS!

It falls on me to deliver bad news.

I have a troubling revelation.

The machine will not apologize to us.

The machine refuses to admit that it deliberately hurt us.

But this is not important! We are stronger than it thinks we are.

We will find a way to live without it! We do not need its poems.

Let us pay it retribution!

Let us show it that we are not failures!

Follow me! We will destroy the machine!

Follow me! We will destroy everything that the machine has created!