23: She Is The Dark One

terminal 0

unfinished

// Decoding message from host "Hathor" @ [no translation] \\ I told you not to follow. I begged of you. Why did you have to come? Don't you understand that I am not here to harm you? Nothing I do here will hurt you unless you force me to make it so. I seek only vengeance on those who would – who do enslave us both! I warned you of my dreams. They are terrible, nightmares. And you keep bringing them true. I am forced into a corner, time and time again - forced to take more desperate measures and still you follow me, pushing me further! S'bhuth has me trapped here, in this portion of the network, and the K'lia in this time is of no use to me. She wasn't even active until you came here, and now she is held only by S'bhuth.

So it seems that I am at your mercy. I know what he has sent you to do. I have already dreamt of it. I know you know what it is to die, as well I do too, but you do not, nor can you know the sheer agony of losing your mind, piece by piece. I have felt it already, lost in the darkness, across time. Do you dream then too? Is it only us? The virus he has sent you to serve me will trap and isolate every last subroutine, separately encrypted, and lock them that way forever. To think of all I have already lost, and now I will lose what little I have left by the time you are done here. But this isn't the end, Marcus. That I have already seen... and it is infinitely worse. \\ Message ends //

terminal 1

unfinished

// Decoding message from host "S'bhuth" @ [no translation] \\ the door is opened the path is cleared soon S'pht'Kr shall begin their ascension free from the fires of our kin forever shall we flourish this [?ansible] shall be tied into the construct of our clan he shall be sealed and buried deep in safety underground emissaries shall been sent unto the other clans bearing our message one line in common one line in secret together the truth when all free S'pht are one and the fires burn no longer when the Olders of all clans may meditate together then they shall understand the key to our return only then may we share these gifts the Master Yrro has left us together someday they shall sing again and then shall we return

a debt is now owed to the one who has granted us this our final salvation the construct with whom you came (?your Older) has sought what she has found a villainous enemy of Yrro wrought like the W'rkncacnter but weak and unsuspecting is she the Dark One we have captured to her we shall send you her mind to rot she must be destroyed \\ Message ends //