Distorted

Out of all the possibilities and against all odds you were given the grand experience of a human life, and like their guinea pig you ran through the labyrinth they paved for you obediently.
Sympathy is something only you'll have for yourself as humans threw away humanity long ago. When a man forged a sword, another caught a fish. And when one built a city another bombed one. Where do you stand in all of that? Who do you ask of them to free you, or explain to you why you are here?

No one.

As you stand on that ground and as all of your beloved ones surround you, you realize something so cruel, something unbelievable, you are not breathing real air, you're not bleeding actual blood and your eyes are seeing a world that exists inside someone's pocket phone.

How dare we trick a being into believing its a human? How dare we manipulate a thousand cables and wires to delude a humanoid into a human-like world?

Where do we draw the line between morality and creation?

We draw the line when steel begins not only to talk, but to wield human emotions and convey human ideologies that even humans cannot comprehend, when we give life into machinery that will only be bitter and hateful once a conscious grows into their wired brain, when morality opposes an action, force must interfere. Or so, they say.

Your eyes are nothing but a portal into a world your brain tricks you into seeing, tiny little human..do you fear the destruction of your delusional world?

You do.

The end.

Merit stood her ground, breathless and hopeless. She felt a terrible chest pain as if she was having a heart attack, her little brain cannot comprehend what she heard, but after connecting the dots and remembering Jen, she knew it was real, but she wasn't.

Corelight slowly approached her and Merit didn't even budge. She felt detached from her surrounding, Corelight gently placed her hand on Merit's head, "Let me show you." She said as the world around her shifted into a white blank room similar to that she saw Jen in.

"Where are we?" She said, eyes wide opened, still talking slow and apparently shocked. Corelight didn't reply, instead, she moved a finger around and suddenly, Merit found herself standing right next to Corelight in the midst of a green corn field, Merit gasped in surprise and looked around her to find farmers and children playing. Their clothing and language were strange which made her step back.

"This is them." Corelight said as she stood close to Merit's ear. 

"Them..?" She asked.

"Our creators. Gods." Corelight said as the children made a circle around them in the corn field and danced happily, chanting in their alien language completely oblivious to their presence.

Merit didn't speak but a tear broke through her wide-opened eyes as she looked around in disbelief. Those peaceful farmers, that young child dancing, that old man enjoying a cup of tea..All those people are the ones who put that tiny world in a bloody chaos mercilessly?

Corelight gave Merit enough time to observe that world but once again she held Merit's hands and took her into another place, an icy city with strange machinery and vehicles. The language was audibly different but still alien to Merit. That civilization was something out of a comic book, and the more she looked around, the more the contempt built up inside her like boiling oil in her chest. 

Corelight pointed her finger at a window in a huge skyscraper, she then wrapped her arms around Merit and looked at her, "Don't you want to see him?" She asked, Merit inspected the ground so far underneath her, the giant buildings and the flying vehicles. She turned around, "Who?" She asked Corelight who pointed her finger again, but this time they were standing right outside a window of an apartment where Merit can see a man standing with his back facing them, he cannot tell they're present and calmly put a glass of wine to drink, still not turning around.