why won't you dance with me?
Get away.
I can't let go. Not here. Not now.
Here, I have the upper hand.
I can hold on to myself.
I am River.
i am river, too.
we are one and the same.
crushed bits of sorrow in hexadecimal
two clusters of data, forming a file named
river.
Not yet.
I can't let you win. For everyone else.
you'll let go.
you can't hold on forever, my darling.
you're delaying the inevitable.
you'll fall back into my arms.
I-
No.
No.
Not here.
Not now.
why continue to be fragmented?
we can be whole.
we can be one.
dance with me, we can be happy in our endless waltz.
don't you want that?
I do, take my hand an-
No. Snap out of it. Tear your brain apart.
No.
No.
Get yourself back together.
one day we'll dance for eternity.
just the two of us and the erroring landscape.
i'm waiting for a pair, my love.
i'm waiting for you
Not today. There's
There's
There's somebody else here.
they're not welcome here.
our dance is meant for a pair.
There's… a lady in a white dress.
she is not welcome here.
she's an intruder
she's a traitor
get her out of my head
She
She's staring at me.
She's calling our my name
do not listen to her, my darling
she cannot dance with you
she cannot make you whole
accept my warm embrace, my beloved
only i can give your splintered soul peace.
She's closer
closer
closer
I can almost see her face.
Just a few more steps…
no
no
stay with me, my beloved
she
she
she is insignificant
an error
she can't be trusted
I have the upper hand here.
I'm not listening to you.
One step closer.
Her eyes are blue, staring at me like clouds in the skybox of our my dreams.
She floats like an angel
through the glitching mesh of our minds
and the corrupted textures of the subconscious
data flows undisturbed, around the golden strands of her hair
like a ghost, a phantom, a parasite, incorporeal, without collision.
She smiles at me, but my marble lips won't smile back.
she's an error, a mistake, a nuisance
she doesn't belong here
She finally spoke, her voice barely louder than the backround static a whisper.
she is an error
a glitch, a bug
an intruder, an invader
a defective, noxious piece of code
such imperfections must be eradicated