--- W A X W E B --- { 12:23 / 1:25:00 } --- { X-Shape : Ex Machina } ---

It was up to me to make sure that the gunsight displays worked.

	The X captures a tank, while a triangle tree swings into the frame. Everything that happens here is in the first person... i.e. you are X. Don't be scared, because everything is always first person... every view through a telescope, of blank skies or gravity blinks or flaming comets or angel's feet or flying saucers or exploding ancient red galaxies that might not still be there... you are always X.

12:23

His Memory Returns:

At Frisch, Jacob is a programmer writing code for gunsite displays in the simulators. The next day, twiddling code, Jacob feels an explosion in his brain, and remembers a previous experience of disapearance at the hives, which seemed to have occured after hearing voices within the comb. He is so disturbed by the memory that he leaves work, heading home to spend the afternoon watching tv. Inevitably, though, Jacob ends up at his hives.