The Nonary Game was an experiment, designed to study the Morphogenetic Field. You see, there are two conditions that are able to strengthen a person's ability to access the information in it: epiphany and danger. So they put us in a place where we were forced to solve puzzles, thus leading to epiphany, while our lives were on the line, so we were in danger.
There were 18 children who were kidnapped. 9 were put on the Gigantic, and 9 were put in a building in Nevada that was built to replicate the Gigantic perfectly. They, the group in Building Q, were supposed to find the solutions to the puzzles and transmit them to us. We... were usually missing a crucial piece to solve it. 9 sibling sets. Only they messed up, because Aoi and I, and two sisters, didn't get put in different groups.
[She shakes her head a little.]
I can't really remember all of it, still. But... There was a police officer who rescued us, after we got trapped in the incinerator. But I had dropped my doll, and I went back to get her, and that man....
Hongou, he... he dragged me back into the incinerator. I was too little to stop him. To fight back. He dragged me back in and threw me down and then locked the doors again and then... h-he activated the room. And there was a puzzle that I had to solve or the incinerator would turn on and I'd burn to death, but...
[She smiles a little shakily.]
I wasn't even on the right boat. It's... easier for me to transmit than it is for me to receive, even if it's never just one or the other. But I couldn't solve it, and the fire turned on, and I....
He burned me alive.
He was watching. He had his face pressed up against the glass while I was crying.
But I... I did something. I don't remember what it was. Or... I might do something?
I... The Morphogenetic Field appears to also have a temporal element, because I was able to... to project forward into it, and do... do something. Only I can't remember what, only that it's tied to the second Nonary Game.
Daddy, I don't know how I'm still alive. I know that... when... when I got taken here it was only a few hours away from that nexus point. Something was supposed to happen.
That's why Aoi and I set it up. I...
It was easier to access the field, after, because I could die any time, I'd have been dead already, if I make a mistake. If I break the time loop. And I could see some of it, and....
I get fevers the closer I get to burning. So the worse the fevers get, the further away I am from being able to survive. So I practiced. I tried to scan the future, to run the different timelines until I found the different problems, to work out everything that needed to be done so that I could survive.
That's how I'm the cat. I'm still... waiting for the box to be opened. Only half alive.
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[A sigh.]
The Nonary Game was an experiment, designed to study the Morphogenetic Field. You see, there are two conditions that are able to strengthen a person's ability to access the information in it: epiphany and danger. So they put us in a place where we were forced to solve puzzles, thus leading to epiphany, while our lives were on the line, so we were in danger.
There were 18 children who were kidnapped. 9 were put on the Gigantic, and 9 were put in a building in Nevada that was built to replicate the Gigantic perfectly. They, the group in Building Q, were supposed to find the solutions to the puzzles and transmit them to us. We... were usually missing a crucial piece to solve it. 9 sibling sets. Only they messed up, because Aoi and I, and two sisters, didn't get put in different groups.
[She shakes her head a little.]
I can't really remember all of it, still. But... There was a police officer who rescued us, after we got trapped in the incinerator. But I had dropped my doll, and I went back to get her, and that man....
Hongou, he... he dragged me back into the incinerator. I was too little to stop him. To fight back. He dragged me back in and threw me down and then locked the doors again and then... h-he activated the room. And there was a puzzle that I had to solve or the incinerator would turn on and I'd burn to death, but...
[She smiles a little shakily.]
I wasn't even on the right boat. It's... easier for me to transmit than it is for me to receive, even if it's never just one or the other. But I couldn't solve it, and the fire turned on, and I....
He burned me alive.
He was watching. He had his face pressed up against the glass while I was crying.
But I... I did something. I don't remember what it was. Or... I might do something?
I... The Morphogenetic Field appears to also have a temporal element, because I was able to... to project forward into it, and do... do something. Only I can't remember what, only that it's tied to the second Nonary Game.
Daddy, I don't know how I'm still alive. I know that... when... when I got taken here it was only a few hours away from that nexus point. Something was supposed to happen.
That's why Aoi and I set it up. I...
It was easier to access the field, after, because I could die any time, I'd have been dead already, if I make a mistake. If I break the time loop. And I could see some of it, and....
I get fevers the closer I get to burning. So the worse the fevers get, the further away I am from being able to survive. So I practiced. I tried to scan the future, to run the different timelines until I found the different problems, to work out everything that needed to be done so that I could survive.
That's how I'm the cat. I'm still... waiting for the box to be opened. Only half alive.