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[the Weighted Companion Cube had been thinking.
...alot.
the past few weeks had been the most tumultuous and confusing of its entire existence, and the effects were really beginning to pile up. All the emotional energy and experiences that it had been inadvertently collecting were causing minute but steady changes...one of them being the increased frequency and depths of its thoughts.
and, beyond that, its sensitivity itself was increasing.
parked outside of its room, it wore its open journal like a hat, its thoughts typing silently across the pages.]
I can still feel it. hear it. smell it.
I thought it was gone, because it is quiet again.
Because, they have all returned.
Test Subjects.
But, it is still there.
It feels like.
[a long pause, the Weighted Companion Cube's brainless mind searching through the new words and concepts that had collected on it]
Familiar. Like me. Like the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. But...
[more searching]
Bigger.
More.
[one more pause, shorter this time]
...What are you?
...alot.
the past few weeks had been the most tumultuous and confusing of its entire existence, and the effects were really beginning to pile up. All the emotional energy and experiences that it had been inadvertently collecting were causing minute but steady changes...one of them being the increased frequency and depths of its thoughts.
and, beyond that, its sensitivity itself was increasing.
parked outside of its room, it wore its open journal like a hat, its thoughts typing silently across the pages.]
I can still feel it. hear it. smell it.
I thought it was gone, because it is quiet again.
Because, they have all returned.
Test Subjects.
But, it is still there.
It feels like.
[a long pause, the Weighted Companion Cube's brainless mind searching through the new words and concepts that had collected on it]
Familiar. Like me. Like the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. But...
[more searching]
Bigger.
More.
[one more pause, shorter this time]
...What are you?