You went to his lair, you had a matter to solve and the only way to see him was to go and look for him, he didn't come out of that cave he had turned into a shelter when the system collapsed, some time later you would notice that something in his mind had cracked too, at this moment it wasn't clear, you assumed that the relationship was still friendly as the last time you saw him, you had to make a detour to mislead the sentries and carry the damaged gem hidden, the rain helped to camouflage you since the vision becomes blurred for the cameras on such intemperate days, you warned that you were close, and the traps were deactivated as you advanced, the monitoring of the resistance was better oiled and they reactivated automatically, something of that defense mechanism made you feel safe in the open, and also a little trapped in a power game that you began to realize was generated by the same wave that tried to corrupt it, it was not a war between good and bad, the separation was fictitious, the motivation was survival, it no longer mattered so much the supremacy of any particular system, the important thing seemed to be to receive the least possible damage, the road before covered with flowers was mined with anti seismic sensors, you recognized them, the riots some time ago had marked the record in the field of explosions everywhere, and you could realize how this had impacted in the reactive way of responding to the smallest impulse, biotechnology had advanced thanks to this, at the end of the day, chaos orders itself to prevail, In this abstraction you were in when you arrived, you rang the bell, yes, a bell, so much radar, and other artifacts that you got tired of learning to decipher, sometimes it is necessary the unexpected to reconnect, an accomplice smile outlined your expression before the bewilderment, deep down it seemed natural to you, there was a similar bell also in your home and the reminiscence of the memories echoed in your memory. When you entered, you could not glimpse in the gloom the copious amount of recovered treasures scattered in the environment, you went to the laboratory, there was not much place to sit so you took the bed, it was the only thing that seemed soft among so much stiffness, that and his skin, you shook your head a little imitating the movement to decontract yourself, you were trying to go back to what you had been doing, pretending that seeing him again always generated emotions that you had learned to hide, he told you what he was investigating, he seemed quite animated, his enthusiasm was visible and contagious, you started to relax, talked for hours, when the time came you opened the capsule in which the gem was contained, It had some cracks because of the overload that interrupted the channels, so to repair it, it would have to be reconfigured by modifying its structure so the flow of information could circulate again, the same as always, you put the gem in the condenser, the machine was programmed to calibrate the cracks, while the alloy in the modified air particle inside that device kept the gem alive, We could only wait, he sat in the chair next to you, you were very entertained watching the different expositions of the system regarding the generation of virtual matter, the cryptos occupied all the ranking of the stock market, there were no more currencies that were not virtual, everything was dystopically comical and in a certain way novel in the screens that occupied the wall. Several times in the conversation you were having you forgot about all that chaotic control alien to their bodies still, there was a spark that ignited when you looked at each other, a something that evidenced the real among so much virtuality, you could not resist it for long, he approached as he could while whispering "let's try this." as if it was a new instance, as if you had never tried it before, and as if it were a magnet your lips met, gently resting on each other, you transformed into a kiss, you really felt that it was the first time you were in the presence of a kiss and that the two of us were melting into it, it was different from the previous times, that overflowed an exuberant, unbridled passion, this time it was much simpler and also more beautiful, the sensation was extreme, it vibrated every cell in your body, you knew it, every movement was so naturally slow, there was no mental manipulation, your lips understood each other on a level unknown to your previous experience, it seemed like the connection was going to break at every second and at the same time there was no way to separate, you stopped thinking, you gave yourself completely to that unexpected ritual, you could feel the warmth of his breath, the softness of his movements, the smoothness of his skin…
They lost track of time or perhaps they had reached a dimension where it did not exist, they expanded to infinity, at some point they opened up, looked at each other, smiled, and the gem as well as their bodies shone.
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