A/N: Please excuse all these weirdness. @____@ Strange AU, JE, RyoDa. And the poem quoted is 'Effort at Speech Between Two People' by Muriel Rukeyser.
again, STRANGE, AU, JE, RyoDa, with a total emphasis on the strange ... approximately 7500+ words ... bit of an experiment, if you must.
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"After they let him out, you know, he was never quite the same again."
"Classified, it was classified."
"He went somewhere he shouldn't have ... "
" ... and you say this virtual world is boundless, it can free us from all rules ... that's a lie!"
Even so, the data whirls through Ryo's mind, falling faster than snow, yet more fragile than those evanescent flakes. To change a single, key byte of data in an untraceable location is to spit in the faces of them ...
The other hackers' voices form a faint buzz of a chorus in the back of his skull, teasing, advising, offering, warning. Ryo ignores them all. He's a single particle plummeting through streams of data now, faster and brighter than a falling star, the core of it calling out to him, shining in the distance like the heart of a dying sun. The answers —
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