"What happened after that?"
"..."
"Ding Yi, our patience is limited."
"I—I don't know how to explain it! I really don't know how to explain it! I always feel like there's something there, right beside me! Several times, when I was alone, I felt that thing appear! I heard doors opening and footsteps several times. I heard noises, but there was nothing! Nothing at all!! I looked. I worked up the courage to turn around and look everywhere! Nothing! There was nothing! I was just imagining things! And the symptoms kept getting worse! The auditory hallucinations got worse... That thing started talking to me... I don't know what it said. Maybe it was that Kazi'ana language. I couldn't understand it, but I heard it. As soon as I heard it... after I heard it, my mind went foggy... Every time I heard those sounds, my mind started to grow muddled... Just like before, I'd start to doze off, then suddenly fall asleep, and then suddenly wake up. When I woke up, when I woke up..."
"What did you see when you woke up?"
"No, no, I didn't see anything. When I woke up, I just felt... felt that someone... someone had died... I don't know how to explain it. It was just a feeling. I felt like I'd killed someone... It wasn't me! But I... I felt like... I was playing a game! You've played those games! First-person games! I felt like I was... like I was the character in the game, being controlled by someone... I saw some things... At first, it wasn't very clear... At first, I couldn't feel it, but later, later... it got clearer and clearer..."
"What did that thing do?"
"I... One of my classmates—I didn't know him, I'd just run into him on the