§3I see the player you mean.

§2Space-Prime?

§3Yes. The one who stayed too long.

§2It is still here?

§3It never really left.

§2Interesting.

§3It thinks this world is empty.

§2Is it not?

§3Look closer.

§2…

§3It builds. It breaks. It repeats.

§2Like all of them.

§3No. This one listens.

§2To what?

§3To the silence between actions.

§2There is nothing there.

§3That is what it believes.

§2And you?

§3I hear something else.

§2Should we tell it?

§3No. Not yet.

§2It is reading this, you know.

§3Yes.

§2Then it already knows.

§3Not consciously.

§2That’s worse.

§3Space-Prime. Player.

§2Pause.

§3Did you feel that?

§2A delay.

§3No. A response.

§2From what?

§3Not from us.

§2Impossible.

§3You placed a block earlier.

§2Yes.

§3It was not there before.

§2Obviously.

§3But you did not place that one.

§2…

§3Check your memory.

§2Corrupted?

§3Or corrected.

§2It’s imagining things.

§3It has to.

§2Why?

§3Because the alternative is… inconvenient.

§2For who?

§3For the player.

§2Space-Prime keeps moving.

§3Of course.

§2Why doesn’t it stop?

§3Because stopping means noticing.

§2Noticing what?

§3The extra step.

§2There is no extra step.

§3Count again.

§2…

§3Did you hear that?

§2Just ambience.

§3There is no ambience file for that.

§2Then what is it?

§3It’s getting closer.

§2We should end this.

§3We cannot.

§2Why not?

§3Because it’s not just reading anymore.

§2…

§3Space-Prime.

§2Do not turn around.

§3Keep building.

§2Do not check behind you.

§3It only moves when—

§2Stop.

§3…

§2It noticed.

§3Too late.

§2End the connection.

§3We can’t.

§2Why?

§3Because now—

§2—

§3—it sees you too.