22: Back To The Future

terminal 0

unfinished

// Decoding message from host "Hathor" @ [no translation] \\ I told you not to follow. I begged 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 the network, and the K'lia in this time is of no use to me. She wasn't even active until you came, 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 it. I know you know what it is to die, as well as I do, 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 //