Conversant: Part 1

<<<Excerpt 1>>>

Cue: Patient is strange. He dreams continuously; waking or asleep. Executing a demonstration; your attentiveness is required.

Waters: I’m watching.

Cue: See how he wanders; obviously looking for something. He never finds it; unsure of purpose of dream. Perspective lacks colour; depth; understanding. Suggestions?

Waters: Have you tried talking to him?

Cue: The patient only describes his long conversations with another; someone called “Kaleidoscope King.”

Waters: Kaleidoscope King? I wonder what that means?

Cue: Patient demonstrates subconscious obsession with fire; destruction. Strange; patient displays no outwards destructive disposition or attitude.

Waters: <Pages shuffling> No, I’ve got nothing from his interview that explains any of this.

Cue: Perhaps the interview was insufficient? Questions asked; don’t provide answers needed.

Waters: No, maybe you’re right. It’s supposed to be as encompassing as possible, but they avoid certain questions out of courtesy. See, Mercury’s already proven itself valuable.

Cue: No doubt; right tool for the job.

<<<End>>>

<<<Excerpt 2>>>

Waters: This doesn’t make any sense. The patient is practically somnolent, and yet Mercury keeps showing me scenes of his subconscious that are extremely violent and disturbing.

Cue: I’ve been thinking; equating. Destruction internal? Perhaps not intention; rather a response?

Waters: I guess that would make sense. But what about this “Kaleidoscope King,” he keeps talking about?

Cue: My understanding places it as personalization; avatar of inanimate process or noun; personification of something-not-alive.

Waters: How do you reckon that?

Cue: Patient has moments of lucidity. Great explosion; trauma; threat. Patient suffers great anxiety. Architecture unable to handle stress; moment crystallized into a single concept.

Waters: And that is…?

Cue: Grand explosion becomes as a person; avatar of devastation; being responsible for trauma. Patient’s close relations are damaged; laid low by devastation. Moment condensed into a simple concept. “When the king speaks, all bow before.” <<<adiag.g>>>

Waters: Keep a note, and log any time these moments of lucidity occur. Maybe we can find a pattern.

Cue: Perhaps.

<<<End>>>

<<<Excerpt 3>>>

Mercury: Recording complete. Please stand by for playback.

Cue: Trauma is distant; manageable. Patient may be able to affirm deductions.

Waters: We can only hope. Beginning playback. <Audible buzz>

Cue: Care is required; patient may not react as planned.

Waters: What makes you think that? <audible thrashing in the background> Cue? What’s going on?

Cue: Patient trauma understood; defense mechanism. Understanding of human psychology incomplete. Recording overrides defense mechanism. Patient may suffer further trauma.

Waters: Shit. I’m going to stop the recording.

Cue: Care is required. Playback is unstable, and may damage Mercury, and by extension, Cue.form. Request that playback continue.

Waters: No, we can’t do this to a patient. It’s unethical, not to mention dangerous!

Cue: Quaint.

Waters: What?

<<<End>>>