PoV: Lovelace
"Oh. You came, after all."
I'm in a strange place, completely dark except for words that keep being written on the air in fluorescent green light before disappearing. Those words come all around me and as far as my eyes can see, which is a very long distance.
And yet, there's no sign of whoever might have said that phrase I heard right now. The voice sounds very similar to mine, though.
Like an AI from Aurea's world, which has been trained on my voice. As cold and emotionless as a robot.
The words that are written and then disappear are very familiar to me. They are all messages the Adventure System sends. It seems that they are the messages the system is actually sending at this very moment to all its users.
"Who are you?"
"You came all the way here without knowing that?"
It's not like I even know how I came here to begin with.
Oh, right. The memory pearl. I remember touching it, and there's a cut to my first memory of this place.
"Was this a trap all along?"
