[network] Noisy Black, Part Two [open] [horror/watching surgeries/note specifics please]

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[rubikscomplex]

No. Mutilated. Shouldn't be dead. Anomalies. Not us. Wilson...

[He's seen Wilson's mangled corpse too many times and it hurts each one, more than he can really say. With the other man fresh in his mind once more from new memories, the edge of the other memories from Norfinbury turn sharper, cut deeper.]

Some of you aren't possible. Delusions from the nanomachines.

[termineur]

[ He's having something of a hard time following that, but he doesn't want to give House time to draw. ]

Yeah, I know it's from the nanomachines. It has to be. Because there's no way half of us would be alive if this was really happening. But what was that about anomalies? You saying the anomalies are the dead ones?

[rubikscomplex]

Pieces. They said they were pieces. Winter. Wilson's in the morgue. Every time now. Found the organs. Davesprite. Static on the tablet.

[termineur]

Right, the anomalies are- maybe pieces that didn't come through right. Those are the dead ones. We've seen them without distortion. Did you run when Andromeda told you to? I didn't and this machine with legs- tons of human legs- showed up. You think that one was really there?

[rubikscomplex]

No. It came through the tablet. Like a freaking... face-hugger. [Hope you've seen "Alien," Sylar.] Sounds before. How did it come through the tablet? Nanites screwing with us?

[termineur]

[ He's heard of "Alien"- clearly that's enough. ]

It has to be. It wouldn't make sense for it to actually come out of the tablets. It's possible, I'm sure, with enough nanomachines, but what a waste of energy. It's far more likely that your nanites went haywire.

That was when we had that server breach error, wasn't it? [ Not going to say it was Winter, even if they're disconnected from the Admin right now. ] Do you think that the rogue AI you were thinking of was trying to sneak into more of the important parts of the network, maybe? Seeing how far it's influence reached?

[ Just keep talking. It seems to be keeping House from having to draw eyes- and if it helps Sylar focus through the pain here, all the better. ]

[rubikscomplex]

[That reminds him of the conversation with Rhys from before the surgery, when he could still think.]

Winter. She's letting them in. Breaking in through her. She's the rat. Snakes use the same tunnels. [Is that the right analogy? Probably. He thinks it is, but it's so hard to focus and he needs to draw more eyes.]

Need to stop her. Get word to her to stop.

[termineur]

[ Sylar follows the analogy, right or not. Winter opened the way for the rest to get in, if they wanted. ]

She shows up what, once a month or so? So we've got awhile before we're going to talk to her again.

[ He can feel the natural pause, and that's no good for House. ]

-so, it came up recently that the death penalties might actually be penalties, meant to be a decentive from dying more often. I'd always thought they were parts of the system rebooting late after the rest of us revives. What's your take on that?

[rubikscomplex]

Closer. Sometimes closer.

[He remembers it was only a few days between her appearances once. After getting cut off like she did, would her programming kick in to try to tunnel back in sooner, rather than later?

But now they're onto revivals and death prices and House has Opinions on those, having suffered them more than most.]

Acute MN Poisoning. Takes a while to clear the trash. Chicago after the Cubs with the pennant...

[Pick your analogy of massive crowds swarming and litter left behind, as you like.]

[termineur]

[ He'll try to remember that about Winter. ]

So you think it's part of the revival? There's too much for the nanomachines to do, so we get weird glitches. That's what I figured, too. But some of these death losses seem really pointed, don't you think? To the point where they'd have to be targeted somehow.

[rubikscomplex]

[Most of House's have been a cruel irony, it's true.]

Mm... [But he doesn't have an answer, not really.] Sometimes most affected. Loss. Tongue cut off. Couldn't talk. [Maybe one had followed from the other. More nanites had to be used in his mouth, so he couldn't talk?]