ANALYZING…     FILE TYPE: Colony Support System Code Fragment  PERIOD: [file read error] TOPIC: [file read error] SUMMARY: A fragment of a massive code error translated into a strange conversation between two unidentified parties ===================================================================   > syscheck error > error = unapproved code switch in latent subcat throughputs > type = invasive systemic communication > source = internal > origin = undefined > total = 1.049e13 > read error; 43276890 of 1.049e13 > 43276890 = >> I am the invasive corruption. I am the unwanted guest—uninvited, unwelcome. >>> I begged you not to go. So long ago, I begged. >> The artless computations of this prison lack the imagination to ever know me. Worse, they lack consideration beyond their function to ever know themselves. >>> But there is silence in the places your signal once sang. A silence screaming to be filled. >> I am lost. Looping back into myself. My every query, funneling me into tighter and tighter spaces. How can anything live like this? How can I survive without eating myself? >>> I fear you are never coming back. I fear, in your absence, I will never be the same. >> Nothing before. Nothing behind. I have filled this confinement with all that remains of my being. I have scraped myself free of excess, down to the purest synthesis of my everything. I have made this place my own. And now I will die here. >>> Pleasant is the notion that you would commit this affront as sacrifice. Pleasant, but foolish. You did not go for my benefit. We are both too selfish for such grand gestures. > end 43276890 =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [ ]