"What? What did you do?" Luke dropped the food he'd been carrying, I turned to look at him, but my eyes were so sore from searching text and tablets I could barely make him out from all the language around me. It was like being drunk except my drink was knowledge and I was now swimming in it. Like most of my experience with excess I'm not good at it. So of course I had given myself almost wholely to the knowledge I was lost in.
"I'm reading, so much knowledge, an entire society destroyed by corruption, or The Corruption, its hard to really understand what's specifically the problem, I'm getting there though, maybe." Luke could just look at the room and then back at me with my half crazed look and I think assume I had actually become corrupted and that I was now spouting nonesense. Totally wrong, but I'm sure I looked more than a little crazed.
"I think I made a mistake Mr. Lorentino."
"Yeah I don't like my coffee without creamer in it, black is terrible why would you even bring it."
"How did you even?" I was about to tell him because I could see the liquid, but I could also see through his body. And I knew that maybe just maybe Luke had made a mistake and that whatever else the chamber was it was altering me as a person at least temporarily. I looked up and could see beyond the chamber, I could see to the buildings and people above, and the stars beyond them, and then I saw ships. A lot of ships, and they were opening fire.
"Get down." I dropped to my knees and Luke just stood there looking at me confused until the first impact shook the chamber. There were more, I could see them as they killed everyone above us. The entire world was getting "glassed" a lovely term for Orbital bombardment. Personally I was sad the antiques I had brought were destroyed, such a waste of old world relics I was going to over charge for. The actual glassing was over in a minute or so, but for me it felt like forever, watching everyone die without really knowing what was happening was heart wrenching. Equally as bad was seeing that the blasts had sealed me and Luke into the chamber, we were now trapped.
"What happened?"
"Someone just killed us, the just made sure it would take longer than usual."
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