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“Right,” he said, his tone so very unconvincing.
She nodded, again looking at the bed.
“It’s okay to be scared,” he said softly.
More nods. “Good because…I’m definitely that. For you.”
“Why me?”
His genuine confusion confused her. “Because…I don’t like to see you hurting.”
“How do you know if you haven’t seen me in pain?”
Oh. Oh boy. Was he saying she might think he was hot when in agony? Highly doubtful. “And the other way is for me to…experience what you do.”
“On a…much lesser level,” he said.
“I can ask you to stop if I watchyoudo it?”
“Yes.”
She didn’t like that answer. Like she could ask him, but that didn’t mean he would. “And if I ask you to stop, you will?”
He lowered his head. “Yes.”
He wouldn’t lie about it, she told herself the second she suspected exactly that. “I think it’s better to watch you then.”
He turned and walked to a wall, and she got stuck on the way his butt moved, missing the secret hole in the wall he pulled the odd head apparatus he now carried.
She looked at it, listening as he explained what it was and that she would wear it over her head like a helmet with movie glasses.
“Oh, now,” she gasped as he raised it and set it on her head, strapping it on.
“This is your sound,” he said, pressing little things into her ears. “Make sure they’re snug in the ear canal.”
“Okay,” she whispered, doing as he said, her hands and entire body shaking. “Is it me or is it cold in here?”
“Sixty degrees. It adds to the experience.”
“Ah,” she said, her jaws chattering. “Not used to that.”
He took her hands, and she gasped as his mouth covered hers softly. “You’re okay. If you want me to stop, just call out to me.” He guided her to the chair. “Stand here where you can touch me. Once the scene starts, it’ll seem very real. That’s normal. Since you’re not hooked up to the neuro-network’s algorithms, there’s no stimuli other than the sight and sounds. Okay?”
“Okay,” she whispered. “I’m…I’m ready.”
“When I start the scene, you will see other people but remember it’s not real. They’re virtual. A computer generated image. But they seem very real.”
She watched him through the goggles, explaining everything while hooking things to his body and head. Even his feet. Good lord.
“Activate Dungeon scene forty-three.”
“Shit!” Cat whispered when another world appeared all around her.
“You see the people?”
“I-I see them,” she gasped. “Men…there’s men dressed in black right there,” she pointed. “More than one, is there supposed to be more than one?”
“Yes,” he said.
