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[sublimebeast]

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[sublimebeast]

Joined the parade, you mean?

I'd heard people were compelled to join by the music.

[mellowyellow]

No.

After.

I killed myself.

I didn't want to, but I did anyway.

[sublimebeast]

[There's a long pause as he thinks about this.]

It compelled you, didn't it? The music...

[mellowyellow]

Who knows?

[Why had he joined in, felt so free and excited, ripped himself to shreds with a smile on his face? Why had he done any of these things? He doesn't know. Or maybe he just doesn't want to.

It's terrifying to think that anything could manipulate him so effectively, but it's world shattering to consider that maybe nothing had.]

I just wanted to be one of them.

But I wasn't good enough.

I was too

[Too worthless? Too restricted? Too human? Too alive?

Too dead?]

different.

[sublimebeast]

I'm sorry.

[mellowyellow]

Then don't do what you're thinking of doing.

You can track it or warn people when it's coming or whatever helps.

But don't follow it.

Even with ear plugs.