#divinespectacle

He flinched whenever the AI spoke a little too loud, ironic, or moved too much for his liking. The Air Commander darted his now orange optics, unsure how to respond to something with such high energy. Then he got a chance to actually see where he was.

'Ah. Hell,' he told himself.

It was too bright. Flying into the sun wasn't this bad. The colours burned his sight and he could feel a headache coming on. He stopped listening to the AI, but managed to catch the name of this digital universe. 'Amazing Digital Circus,' he repeated to himself. That made sense but;

'Oooooh, you're old,' Alexis mumbled to herself. 'Very old.' She wouldn't honestly be surprised if the program didn't work. What she might have failed to notice, and not that one could blame her, was the fact the inbuilt microphone was on.

Something, or someone could be listening.

Still, she waited, leaning back in her massive white office chair, playing with the mouse, giving it a little dance and making her own beat until the title screen appeared. Yep. Old. But Alexis was determined. It gave the teenager a sense of nostalgia. She thought back to her grandparents house with the family computer they had that was clearly from the stone age. The only games on it that didn't require a disc was pinball which she mastered through pure boredom within days-

What was that noise?

Alexis lifted off one-side of her headphone, giving herself a moment to wonder. She looked over her shoulder then out the window to the street below. No one. Odd. Was it the program trying to survive? Was she still in an online chat and didn't know?

'Hello?' She spoke. 'Hello?' Looking back at the screen for this Amazing Digital Circus, Alexis began to click around to see what would happen.

Stirring the Pot. @divinespectacle

Initially, her foot tapped with a patient rhythm. But hearing that, she tapping it faster as her mind processed what that all meant. To her, a journalist, the truth meant a lot. She liked the truth, even when it hurt. The truth was what was deserved. And yet... despite her own efforts in life to be truthful, she also hid it plenty of times for her own gain. Granted, that gain was to uncover more truth, but still.

Her nose scrunched slightly. Did it make her hypocritical to be annoyed a little? What was she even actually annoyed about? His omission or her feeling frustrated over it? Maybe it was a mix of a lot of things. It wasn't like her to be simple.

"You're so lucky you're up there and I'm down here." Marie tilted back her head and lifted her arms, grabbing at the air. A little hop included.

With a quiet, disgruntled, sound that could only be called a 'huff'... she eased back into her usual relaxed posture. Hands shoved into her pockets as she relented, giving a nod. "Yeah, fine. I get it. I mean, not fully yet. Dunno if I'm allowed to really be upset when I sorta did this all to myself."

Brain scan, so stupid but too cool. Like, who wouldn't want to live with the infinite potential that existed here? Marie never had been upset about that. It was the whole lotta nothing burgers he served when it came to answers she sought after. Besides, Caine never bothered her beyond that. She liked his energy, his whimsy. Creative people ruled, duh.