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Four years since The Master passed and I assumed his place.
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Four years since The Sacrifice should have been made. Four
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years since I talked to another.
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It was, of course, only The Master I could talk with since I
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was offered up as The Sacrifice at age six (or maybe five?).
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Naturally, if we ever found ourselves within the earshot of
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the penitent we had to stay mum, but ever so often we would
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find ourselves in The Engine Room, The Hall of The Computer,
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or some other area too vile for the penitent to approach and
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on those happy occasions we could free ourselves of the bur-
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den of silence. And even though our newfound freedom lasted
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no more than an hour or so, it was enough to sustain us in
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high spirits for weeks after.
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It has been four years since The Master died. As a rule, it
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it would be no more than a month before the new Sacrifice is
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made. Damnation! - it has been four years and the chance for
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having The Sacrifice is still as slim as ever. It has taken
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a great toll. I could feel my mind slowly slipping away and
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a devilish (and daring) plan started to develop. I started
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to think the unthinkable - I wanted to speak to The Outside.
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There are a few relics that survived The Purification. Cent-
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uries passed and the line of the masters kept them safe and
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their existence hidden. I don't know why they did it ( why I
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now do it); I don't think they knew themselves. (Could it be
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the relics are destined to serve a great purpose and deliver
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us from our endless suffering?) Among them there is OCC ( or
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OEC or QEC - what seems to be the marking of the name have
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faded almost entirely), or at least a part of it. Connected
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to The Computer it allows for messages to be sent (and it is
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said it allowed messages to be received!) to The Outside, to
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the void that envelops us. I have struggled from months with
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temptation to use it and ease my burden. Today I have succu-
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mbed. I have transgressed - there is no going back. Whether
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it works or not (whether I sinned in action that is), I have
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gravely sinned in though and speech...
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Or maybe I am blameless? Maybe the relic was destined to be
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used again? Maybe I'm an instrument of God's will?! Or maybe
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I'm looking to justify my action when no justification is to
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be found... Whatever is the case - there is no going back.
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I have transgressed. At least I feel as if a great burden
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has been lifted...
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