The Elsewhere Affair 30
Jan. 31st, 2012 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A guinea pig. They have used him as a guinea pig. They had tried out their evil device, drowning him in endless illusions, realistic though incoherent, until his mind crumbled away.
“The film studio was an extraordinary opportunity. Actually they had... interesting scenery available there...” His friend's voice was unusually expressionless. “I looked for you, everywhere,” he added in a whisper. “You had to be there. I guessed you had got yourself into trouble...” The tense features belied the forced jesting. “They couldn't have taken you away. So I pretended to leave, eventually. I went into hiding and... I waited.”