"They trick people!" Rowan said. "Everyone loves them, but no one actually knows what they sell."
"The trick to life?"
"Which is?" Asked Piper.
"I don't know." Leon sighed. "I heard him talking, now I can't actually remember what he said."
"Exactly!" Rowan scoured Pipers room. "When you're so intrenched in a world like that you'll get lost. We have to go." He suited up into tight dark clothes.
"Like, break in?" Leon asked.
"...we still don't know what they're like, anything really." Piper said quietly.
"Then we'll find out." Rowan pulling a mask over his face.
He, Piper and Leon (who really didn't know what was going on) painted their eyes black and wore balaclavas. Now under nightfall and a stuffed backpack the three sunk out and towards Depingo.
Around the back of the building was bare.
With a rope and a hook they scaled the wall and peered through some windows. Inside they couldn't see anything useful. Each room looked empty and very small.
Rowan shoved a window open and climbed in, followed by Piper, then Leon who fell over.
"He's gonna be in here?" Asked Leon.
"Maybe." Rowan scanned the room. He creaked open a door and swiftly moved out when he saw no one outside.
The next few rooms were empty and the hallway around them. But each room was boring and empty, some without completed walls. There were no cameras but the three felt watched the whole time in Depingo.
Piper kept spinning to catch what it was but never could.
The whole second floor was empty until they got to the middle room.
Inside that room was where they felt they should have been looking for. A room lit solely with buttons and dials. Rows and rows of servers and databases stretching the floor. Walking through it was like walking through a hall of mirrors.
"Is..." Piper began bit didn't know how to say it.
Luckily for her the other two felt it too, that it was this computer watching them.
Rowan scanned the machinery. He was the best with technology but still had no clue what he was looking at. Then like it woke up it ran again and its buzz filled the room. Digest ran down screens and red lights flashed on buttons. Wheels started turning and a screen came on to show its thoughts.
It was very static and janky but it was of nature. Then it changed to an office, then a sky.
Wires came from computers and led all around the room and into the ceiling and floor, which all shook as if the computer was thinking really hard.
"What is this?" Leon asked.
"I don't know." Rowan looked around.
"Is this Depingo?" Asked Piper.
It jutted up just after she said that.
"We should go." Rowan said.
"Is Sayle downstairs?" Asked Leon.
Then the computer jutted again.
"I don't know, I'm pretty sure the whole floor is the stage." Said Rowan. "The basement?"
"Is there one?"
"I wouldn't put it past them."
Just when the three had forgotten the threat of getting caught they heard doors from the floor below, then footsteps coming up.
Rowan led back where they came from but the hallway wrapped around and in a similar square room Rowan, Piper and Leon tried to get the window open.
The door was kicked down and police flooded the room.
"Don't move!" They screamed.
Rowan held his arms up and the other two followed.
