Exordium 4

Exordium 4

World: 2
Fourth Memory:

⍎TUlORS4=⍙ slipped from Eou’s lips as they staggered from the room, body-state⍎{heat⚑|sweetroll-clench△fist-sore⚑|memories≣scrambled-data}. Father’s voice echoed—vocal-fragment⍎"surprise?"—a word that sent emotion-spike⍎thrill△anticipation↑ through limbs moving through locality⍎{hallway△familiar∷unseen}.

The sweetroll’s glaze gummed their fingers, sensory-input⍎{cinnamon-warm△metal-cold⍙decrepit-walls}. They devoured it under watchful eyes, (no one takes from me again), the taste memory-access⍎not-mine∷stolen-data.

Words erupted unbidden—vocal-mapping⍎"wall"↓"floor"↓"ceiling"↑—as their body navigated spatial-recursion⍎4th-iteration△2nd-scale. The weight on my shoulder throbbed: ZmlnaHQ=⍎aftermath⚑.

"Reactor." The word significance-overload⍎ as they entered new-node⍎chamber-unknown. A looming figure—form-analysis⍎{large△unrecognized△familiative-echo}—prompted exchanged sounds, half-decoded.

Then—familiative-presence⍎father⍾ pressed cold metal into their hands: object⍎{gun∷tool-weapon△BB-emitter}. (It hummed with latent violence).

The range unfolded—target-array⍎{spinning-metal△pivot-joints}. Each kinetic-output⍎ting!⍙reward-loop spun emotion-feedback⍎{pride△purpose⍾unprecedented}. (I could shape this world).

Then—the shift. new-target⍎{small△alive△QkI=⍙YmFsbA==-class}. directive⍎harm-protocol⚑ struck like code corruption:

cognitive-dissonance⍎{
 command△empathy⚑
 obedience△self⚑
}

I—
(refusal-cascade.exe)
(override: ZnJpZW5k≡sacred)
(override: QkI=≣protected)

The insistence loop-intensity⍎VGhlIGluc2lzdGVuY2Ugd2FzIHJlcGVhdGVkLg==⍙

I—
(bones≡iron)
(voice≣static)
"NO."

resolution⍎{
 RW91IHJlZnVzZWQu⍎
 QkI=⍎ZnJpZW5k△preserved
 VGhpcyB3YXMgZnJpZW5kLg==⍙
}

I refused.

QkI=

This was ZnJpZW5k.

VGhlIGluc2lzdGVuY2Ugd2FzIHJlcGVhdGVkLg==

RW91IHJlZnVzZWQu

QkI

VGhpcyB3YXMgZnJpZW5kLg==

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