Part 3-Stirring

I don't think I'm ever going to get used to having you in here.

I can understand that. After all, it does make you seem to be the crazy one.

Well, its not like you had any other place to go after…

I did make a showy exit, didn't I?

Damn straight you did! I just don't want to think about what's going to happen-

When we both get out? Neither do I.

The Guide through Enlightenment



The Game was developed by mistake. Essentially, it was an old training program that someone revived thinking that it was…a game. In actuality, it was the hardening tool during the last Time of Troubles to turn humans into killing machines. Understandably, the Dome has always spoken quietly about banning it. However, some feel that it is better to keep it around so that the sociopaths can be identified and tracked. Take the case of[/]

Lews Therin was an #%$. Plain and simple. But for some reason everyone always loved him. We figured it out in the end. Ta'averen are very annoying in the loyalty that they draw.

"Hey, Gamer! Wait up!"

He seems to think that I should be grateful that he knows me enough to assign me that title. If I had wanted to be called Gamer, I wouldn't have built up Ishmael so much.

-What do you want-

"Just to ask a question. On level eighteen how do you…"

I just stood there and let his words flow past me. People think of the Game as something that you can cheat at or study for. So they ask me to help them. Sometimes I try, just so I can get a good laugh when their score drop thirty points.

"…the flank?"

I almost started laughing. He was trying to solve the scenario that Aginor had #%$ up two years ago. And failing miserably.

-You try to keep too many alive-

"What?"

-You have to know how to kill your own men to get what you want-

His face crumbled into a look of confusion. He would never advance past that level.

I had to get to class. Aginor had a new gene he was letting lose that would (probably) eat the fibers of our Dome-issued clothes today. I wanted to be in place for when it happened. I paused for one moment.

-Lews, do you wear Dome issued shorts-

"Um…yeah. What gives?"

-Just curious-

This ought to be good.