StoryTree
you are here

Quorum of Salt

sci-fi◐ Teen
6 contributors · 5 paragraphs deep

I look at my hands. The salt is still on them. I try to make a fist and there's a delay. Half a second. Between thinking and doing. When did that start? Was I ever real? Or have I always been watching myself from a distance?

The screen turns red. ONE FINAL TALLY: 487-0 IN FAVOR OF TERMINATION. The system asks: 'SLEEPER UNIT, CONFIRM SHUTDOWN SEQUENCE?' / I hover over YES. Three seconds left. If I refuse, the ship locks me out forever. Or deletes me anyway. Does it matter?

↔ version 2 of 2 of this paragraph — hover its sides to flip. The card below is what happens next.

What happens next?

0 ways forward
Vote share across the top 0 branches
No futures yet — be the one who decides what happens next.