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[i_z_you]

The much diminished Andre can't help but explore the new limits of himself, racing from one end of the web to the other like a spider in a tube, to ensure that it's all still there.  So small.  There's Benjamin, drugged so deeply that he can't even think, just a sleeping mind on the couch of his mental apartment, the TV on but nothing but static.

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[greenasamber]

There's Benny, Ashley.... and so very often, her. That irresistable, unstoppable green, slipping into his web to steal knowledge from Ashley's memory banks, to nudge his mind, so carefully, this way or that. When she comes, these days, she floods him with just enough pleasure to leave him off balance, stroking his mind with hers as she wanders through him. Whispering into the deepest parts of him. I've kept you alive, Andre. Everything you've tried to do to me, every unhappy thing you've thought about me, and I've kept you alive. I've kept my word. That is the goddess I am, despite your betrayals.

[i_z_you]

He always dreads her coming and craves it, the only proof that there's still a world out there and that he's no longer a part of. His response to her is always the same, so simple and honest.

I'm afraid.

[greenasamber]

She wraps him in her arms, stroking hair that isn't there. Don't be? Would you like to not be? She can take that from you, Andre. As easily as she took everything else.

[i_z_you]

He won't turn to look at her. Hasn't yet, this entire horrible time.

No... I don't want to lose that too. There's no strength, no conviction.

He's so tired and small and thin, now. Everything he has left is precious, isn't it? But the fear is so draining.