Memory Storage #53
Date: November 16,
2156
Name: Jason Silver
Breathing is stable,
no upsetting hiccups to disrupt sleep. Muscles are relaxing at a good pace.
Eyes open.
Blink. Blink.
Dialogue Storage #183,
Inner Monologue Unit #1:
I recall
the day I was taken out of the burden of mentation. I was three years of age,
still a babe in my mother’s arms, and it was my natal day. It was also the day
I would be released from my prison. I do not recall much of the procedure
except that it was successful and I would be home within a fortnight. This
event happened not but ten years ago and I do enjoy the recollection of the
memory. In fact, it is the first memory I have stored.
System Check Complete:
no damage to be reported. Free to start the day.
My savior,
I thank you. I must always thank my savior. He is the one who pulled me out of
the darkness and made me free. My savior is my metallic spine that was given to
me on my natal day ten years past. Once it was installed, I no longer had to
control my body. Every movement is made and recorded in the spine, and every
year I am given a new version. (The technology is still being developed, but it
is worth it to be in the test subject generation.)
Freedom is
Slavery. Before the spines were created, the world was at war with themselves.
No one had the capacity to make choices to better the human race. Then one
glorious day, before I was born, Dr. Harrison Shredder created this wonderful
technological advancement. He first tested it on himself and it was, in his own
words, “Liberating to not have to control my own body anymore.” Once he gained
enough funds, he began to liberate the people. At first he was only liberating
adults because he didn’t know what would happen to children. That’s where the
test subject generation comes in. You see at first, once someone had become
twenty-five that was when they received the procedure but the people began to
resist. So, Dr. Shredder began his research on children. Unfortunately, many of
them died before being freed from their human bond. Luckily, my generation did
not die during the procedure. I’m not entirely sure why we survived, but I do
know that we are continuing Shredders great work.
Now the
details of the procedure are not entirely clear to me. All I know is that we
had to wait until we were four years of age and then we were given the procedure.
My mother said it has something to do with the maturity of our brains, but she
is usually wrong about most things. She is still stuck in the old ways of
thinking for herself, therefore she does not understand the complexities of Dr.
Shredder’s research. She could not afford the procedure for herself, but she
wanted me to further enhance my life by letting me have it. I cannot feel
emotion, but I would suppose that I love her for that.
