“Only when we asked them to describe in detail their last descent to Deep-Lab999, did we realise that something was not right”, said Titzi and he activated the last part of the selection.
***
“The bodies pressing against mine are unbearable. Do you hear them? They talk and laugh... and I am suffocating. The metal cage is emptying slowly. One stop, another... Everybody spread out underground, like telepathic ants searching for answers while we race towards death.”
“Come on Mori, you're always complaining. There, here you are, now we are alone and it's quiet. It's only me next to you.”
“Why is the elevator swinging?”
“It's stopped!”
“Quick, Aenor, Igor, cover your eyes, the lights are exploding. We are crashing!”
“The nightmare, Aenor, the nightmare is here again. Always that horrible vision.”
“Don't think about it.”
“I try to go up, I climb out of the cage in the dark and I scream for you to give me your hands. Quick... QUICK! The elevator falls. Your arms emerge out of the darkness. I grab your hand, but Leslie disappears into the darkness together with the cage. I jump after him, down into the void. The last adventure together, the ultimate madness in that spiral of fear that from that day to this hasn't left me.”
***
“And these were also their last agitated words. We could no longer go on, and we quit the interview with some embarrassment”, said the Analyst Titzi.
The entire Icosagon had absorbed those last sensations, created its own personalised emotions and plunged into silence. Everyone was struggling with their own fears. And Sen Atâr had even been careful to not replicate the whole experience which would have been too much to bear.
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