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A program enters his Meta I/O Tower and waits before the dais.
The middle is filled with voxelated molding matter. When a blazing beacon of light shines down, pouring mists of energy, slowly, enthralled in the beauty of full I/O, he climbs up, enters it and opens his arms.
He readies his disk.
A familiar and sacred energy fills up his patterns, transporting his mind, transforming faith and loyalty into an otherworldly joy greater than any other to be found in a system as long as he is concerned: his User pours his designs in his disk, holding his patterns in reading.
This tower and his new primary headquarter were built by his User in person. The monument lets him feel as much as he can send, and his User can also listen this time.
Alan-One —for he has always had only one User— listens patiently as his program speaks, confides in his victories and failures alike, without withholding anything from the patient and all-encompassing touch of his maker.
He asks for advice, for touch, daydreams of Synch, and hopes that Alan-One will bless him in writing again.
Once again, and as always, the program will be content to accept whatever his User decides; confident in his wisdom, his power, and now in his love.
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Afterword
This is a series of short fiction of variable length that were born from many ideas I kept for Intricate Definitions...which is in hiatus. (More than half of the plot is ready, but it's got too many technical holes to fill up and stitch together. *sobs*) For now, I'm going to write my intricate fluff and philosophy here. (. T_T)
The best texts in these series have been beta-read by Girl_of_Action, a generous and inspiring friend who encouraged me to come back to the fandom and try to write for it again. She has my grateful thanks!
These flash-fics are not directly related to each other. Some unfold after the source movie, some after the Betrayal comic, with some elements from the Uprising tv series, and other after the movie Legacy. Yet, they are all connected through little headcanon elements that are spread all over, like Easter Eggs nobody asked for. Heh. Enjoy.
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In the one-shot Privatizing, Alan set up a simple NAS...and here, Tron inaugurated it.
This opening chapter, might still get expended later to try not to sound so stilted and awkward. However, learning to work with the present tense in SF is being so hard... This chapter was very sensual at first, but the spiritual dimension of the I/O Tower made it feel...wrong. Somehow. So I just gave up on that version.
It's not like there isn't going to be many other occasions for circuit fun—or 'fancy tracing', as the digital ladies and guys call it here.