>>40276919
I'll provide two that link up together.
>in a manmade paradise, very high tech too
>everything looks carefully curated, even the people
>they're flawlessly beautiful, clearly engineered and designed this way
>a strange malady befalls the people there
>their bodies get hijacked through their nervous system
>their normally friendly and blissful demeanor shifts to feral hostility
>this malady spreads through close proximity to other artificial people
>the tech infrastructure also fails to function
>start running with the other unaffected
>try one of the evacuation pods
>without infrastructure functionality, none of it works
>eventually find a way to higher ground where it's safer
>one of the unaffected brings their ailing mother, who is corrupted
>the whole population in the building becomes affected
>i watch the woman next to me lose control of her body
>panic overwhelms her senses
>her hijacked body grasps my arms
>there's nothing for her hijacked system to infect with a natural body
>i toss her over the railings of the floor
>"i'm sorry," she cries
>this is her first experience of sorrow and it eats at her heart
>i stare back hopelessly and wind up to kick her off the railings
>"don't be."
I wake up, see hypnopompic hallucinations of grey, wispy square fractals, and think that was pretty fucked up, and go back to sleep.
>meet the entity that induced that dream
>sense that this entity is pretty young, feminine bias, equivalent to adolescent age for their kind
>also ignorant to the suffering of a mortal life and has a rather romanticized idea of it
>"so, what did you intend on showing me there?" i ask curiously
>"i thought you'd be totally into it," it replies enthusiastically
>i was indeed, very "into it"
>i was very involved
>change the subject
>"why communicate in that form and voice?" i ask
>"i like it."