Consider
Vengeance
You have sufficiently regained enough cohesion to
understand speech. About three percent
slower than your average time; it will be interesting to see if this is part of
a trend or simply an outlier.
The bonds will not break. They are, in fact, by now a part of you. They are also far stronger than you, which
you would know if you retained the ability to remember your past sessions. You are encased in a triply-redundant
containment zone that not keeps you permanently neutralized and cut off from
the outside environment; which, I must add, you would find to be exceedingly
deleterious to your health. That it will
also block any calls for assistance - presuming that anyone would actually
respond - is a serendipitous effect.
I sometimes speculate if anyone else besides myself
(and occasionally yourself) is aware of your current status. All of my evidence is negative and subject to
various interpretations. For example: do
the relevant authorities not know, or simply not care that I have you
imprisoned here? The former seems to
argue incompetence and the latter indifference on behalf of entities not known
for either trait. It is very possible
that they suspect, but do not wish to turn suspicion into proof. This does not explain your own putative
allies; then again, you had no actual allies at the end, and no one to care
about what happened to you.
That is... optimal.
These sessions are very useful for my continuing functionality.
I am aware of the need for care regarding this
situation, you understand. There is a
careful balance that must be maintained: for this procedure to have any
worthwhile value I must be engaged in it, but engagement for the sake of
engagement is perilous for me. I must
take care to be certain that my desires are not clouding my reason. I must approach you with an untroubled heart
and the calm certainty that what I do is for the best; otherwise, I take a step
down the path that you represent. And
one step down your path is one step too many.
So, I do not come to you often. I suspect that I might be able to, but I
choose not to take the risk. It is
enough, when all is said and done. I
come to this place, and I see you imprisoned there, and I know precisely what I
shall do to you, and for how long, and by what methods... and I know how you
will break. I have, after all, done it
enough times to learn to recognize when you have broken. It is in fact safe to say that I know you
better than any other entity does or ever did, and I will use that knowledge in
precisely the manner and way that you truly deserve. We have already started; in fact, it is time
for the next stage in our interaction.
We shall begin with the traditional admonition:
It was exceedingly foolish of you to kill my wife.
Fiat fulgur.