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[syncintohell]

[ There's a long pause, like someone isn't sure if his mailbox is recording yet. But there's two taps against the speaker, making sure it's on, and then a voice pronounces crisply: ]

This is Itsuki Shu. Do leave a message.

Comments

Re: day 293, evening.

[syncintohell]

You regard her well, despite the mess she made of you?

Re: day 293, evening.

[586]

...she might have made me for him, but she did care about me once I came to be. And, not only that, she's all I had. If I encountered anybody else they were keen on either dissecting me or killing me, though there's hardly a difference. I'm not entirely sure what love is, but I like to think that she may have... loved me... [ maybe. probably not, but... 8( ]

Re: day 293, evening.

[syncintohell]

[ stops walking ]

You do not need to make excuses for her, simply because there was worse in your life.

Re: day 293, evening.

[586]

...but she was the only bright spot.

Re: day 293, evening.

[syncintohell]

How familiar are you with Trompe-l'œil? Specifically, have you heard of Edward H. Adelson's checker shadow.

Re: day 293, evening.

[586]

Never heard of it. I'm not well versed in the arts, I'm afraid.

Re: day 293, evening.

[syncintohell]

One moment.

[ He stops to pull this up on his phone, and holds it before Cypher. ]

Here. Now, which square would you say is darker, A or B?

Re: day 293, evening.

[586]

[ peers down and the phone and squints. ] ... but aren't they the same color? [ looks from the image to shu. ]

Re: day 293, evening.

[syncintohell]

Ah, so your species lacks the ability to adjust your perception for context. I ought to have expected no more from a beast.

[ pockets his phone again, then, and resumes walking ]

Re: day 293, evening.

[586]

... [ narrows his eyes, feeling insulted. ] And just what is *that* supposed to mean?

Re: day 293, evening.

[syncintohell]

[ without any apparent awareness of that. ]

You did not perceive the trick of the eye because you did not adjust for context. In humans, schizophrenics often fall prey to that as well, as the sensory and conceptual parts of their brains are theorized to not be connected the way the rest of mankind's is. I ought not to have expected something that is not even human to be able to percieve it, when even humans whose brain's machinery has stopped gears cannot. I have not the slightest idea as to how your brain is wired.

Re: day 293, evening.

[586]

...not like a human's, clearly. [ grumbles, looking aside. ] But I didn't need to fail a stupid test for that to be made apparent. I'm a animal, a beast, a monster, and that hasn't changed. And, honestly, it never will, though I have taken several strides in the "right" direction.

Re: day 293, evening.

[syncintohell]

How so?

Re: day 293, evening.

[586]

Learning to talk and curb my violent tendencies, so I just don't attack anybody who's anybody on sight.