Insights and Reflections

When Rui woke up, he knew exactly what had happened.

He would normally be momentarily lost and confused after waking up from a long nap, but this time he had complete clarity on his circumstances and situation.

"I'm so fucked," he groaned. "They're going to flay me alive."

And they wouldn't be entirely unjustified, either.

He had messed up.

He had messed up big time.

In his defense, he hadn't the faintest idea that such a thing would happen.

However, when he had finished conditioning his blood-brain barrier to the very limit and had activated the Gigabrain technique in excitement, he had simply lost control.

It was as though his conscious mind had simply lost control of the steering wheel.

"No, it was deeper than that," Rui murmured. "It was as though even my conscious mind was cooperating. It was one of the deepest trances I have ever been in my entire life."