9. Recalibration (01:43)
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Artor: They know about the malfunctions now.
Juuli: Yeah, I saw the company has increased the monitoring of the trial. How many people are doing the surveys, do you think? Answering those daily prompts?
Artor: Not me, I love the malfunctions! I’m getting used to it and can control it a bit.
Juuli: Do you think we’re part of the problem? Not only the malfunction, but how we’ve actively misusing it, how we’re pushing the dilations further?
Artor: I’m not sure. I don’t think they know it’s us, specifically. The demographics. But they’re already trying to patch it. Did you pass one of the recalibration pulses yet? They’re rigged up to the metal gates.
Juuli: Yeah I did! It gave a sharp tug in my chest, really disconcerting. Like a massive pacemaker, to get me back on tempo.
Artor: Did it work though? Is your clock reset?
Juuli: Not in the slightest! My anxiety skyrocketed. I got these red clumpy streaks in my vision, and all down my arms countless individual hearts were fluttering. Then I just… winked out of clock time until I’d calmed down.
Artor: Oh shit! I’ve been slipping so far past 25 it’s not even funny.
