Life

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"Life is the new reality where you can be whoever and whatever you want!"

Kogane Kinji walked off of the main stage, and everyone was applauding him. The creator of the game of Life, a game where you are able to enter a whole new world, would make millions. Billions, even. But he didn't really care about the money. This reality was a place where you could design new, innovative products without even having to leave the room. The young designer walked off of the stage with his hands in his pockets, and butterflies in his stomach apparently. He turned to me. "Ms... Johnstone... Welcome to KinjiCon!" He smiled and exclaimed. I looked at him and he was in awe of himself. We took a tour around his lab complex.

"So, Leigh... I can call you that, right?"

I nodded.

"So you want to interview me about Life?"

"Yeah! It's a really interesting concept to be able to simulate reality-"

"Follow me, Leigh."

I followed him down the hall and into a room marked 'Test Chamber 6'. "This... Is Life!" he smiled. He typed a few lines of code into the console and the whole room lit up. "Life is currently in human testing! All 5 trials have gone successful, and since you're so interested in it..."

My eyes lit up, and I nodded in excitement. He set up the machine to my weight and height and scanned my whole body. I giggled like a little girl and climbed into the pod.

"The pod isn't in the actual set. It's just the headset and headphones, with a sensor jacket." he explained. I nodded and put on the headset and headphones, and lied down in the pod. I felt nothing. Darkness. My body felt like it was in Limbo.

And then there was light...