Title: Where I Must Be

Author: Casshirek

Summary: Chapter Four. Chisa advances to the state of no return. Death becomes iminent. Copyrights belong to their authors. Chisa's quirks and random characters belong to me. Apologies if canon is not explicitedly maintained.

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"She gets it from your side of the family, you know."

"What?!"

"The insanity, the reclusiveness. Your aunt was like that and you know it -- "

"You bastard, leave me aunt out of it!"

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[[Chat transcript begins ]]

SadAngel: Are you there?

We hear you.

[Enormous words, limned in electric blue, manifest upon the screen below her question. They linger for but a moment, long enough to allow her to digest their content before disappearing. Chisa is no longer surprised. She has seen this so many times that it no longer frightens her. She types onwards. The hour moves closer to three a.m]

SadAngel: I want to escape. You tell me I can, you have never shown me how.

We have told you.

SadAngel: You give me riddles!

We make you think.

SadAngel: There is too much to bear. I can't take it anymore. I want to escape. Do you know what happened the other day? A girl was expelled for being made pregnant by her heartless boyfriend. The boyfriend continued life as normal. I cannot do anything from here. I am chained. Release me.

Abandon your flesh.

SadAngel: How?

[Screen blanks into midnight. At the very center, there is a tiny word too small to be intelligible. Chisa watches for a moment, trying to accertain the nature of the game. Then, the screen becomes alive once more. Similar words dot the screen, increasing in number. Their advance is initially slow but as their numbers grow, so does their speed. The screen is incandescent within moments. Chisa stared. A larger word blinks into existance over the tinier ones. The word is: ]

Die.

[[Chat transcript ends. ]]

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"Where's Chisa? I haven't seen her for band practice for days now."

"Oh, she probably at home."

"Why?"

"Haven't you heard?"

"Heard what?"

"She's addicted to the Wired. Practically lives there, they say."

~Fin