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...But before you... realize where you are....

Or fail to....

....

You notice first....

On the left side of your vision is a....

...The best way to put it is “chatbox.”

....

And if you wonder -- if you think in just the correct way....

You can “write” (think) something in the bottom left corner....

And if you think about it in the just right way....

....

You can “send” it out.

But the name that is listed as yours isn’t yours.  It’s a....

Random ... word.

(Or maybe two).

....

You’re not too sure what to make of this, but you should probably be careful with your thoughts -- because you can’t get rid of anything you send, and you can’t make the “chatbox” go away.

....

Let’s... not think about it.

SUMMIT has been good to you.

You think so, anyway.  It’s polite to say that it has been, anyway.  And even if it hasn’t, isn’t it the correct thing to say?

Everything there was being so well-planned.  You met with your peers, you oriented yourself, you got accustomed to your rooms.  

You were going to a spa.

That’s right -- you remember now; now that you’re blinking, groggy, eyes trying in vain to search for some kind of light but finding nothing, instead trying to get used to the dark.

You were going to a spa.

They had loaded you on the helicopter -- the one used to get to the mainland.  You were supposed to fly to the base of the mountain, and then take a private jet to the spa.

You were going to a spa.

It was supposed to be some kind of PR move, you think -- SUMMIT always thought in PR moves, even when it was trying to be unwaveringly polite and sensible -- it was something that no one said outright, but was so plain in the tightened smiles of your professors, in the shirking eyes of your baristas, in the disinterested glances of the janitor that had been there for over a decade.

You were going to a spa.

But you were not at a spa.

You have woken up, cold, bleary -- hungover feeling, really, though maybe one of you has not had the pleasure of that experience -- and trying to find purchase in....

Where....

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