I started tinkering before that, but I didn't really take it seriously. After all, you were still alive. I was trying to be something else. Something other than you. It was almost more difficult.

But then you fell. That's when it became clear. There was just something surreal about the Process. The oracle. I turned it on. I began to build a new one.

A chain of repetition, 3 by 3, routed in all possible directions. I wasn't really sure if this was how you did it. All I had was a whisper from a friend. A single line of text. Something about flanges. You would talk to it. Feed it to itself. Over and over.

I was fascinated by You.