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==Layer 01: Weird==
==Layer 02: Girls==
==Layer 03: Protocol==
==Layer 04: Religion==
--What's your name?
[...Lain.]
--You're in seventh grade? Eighth grade?
[Eighth.]
--Do you like school?
[(long pause) ...Uh-huh.]
--What subject do you like?
[(silence)]
--Are you in any clubs?
[(shakes head silently)]
--Do you go straight home after school?
[(silence)]
--Do you have friends?
[...Yeah.]
--What do you and your friends do for fun?
[Nothing.]
--Well, what do you do?
[...(thinks for a while) ...Talk.]
--What about?
[...Stuff.]
--Where do you go to talk?
[Wired.]
--You don't like talking with each other in person?
[(silence)]
--What kind of place is the Wired, to you?
[...A place where people connect with other people - the top level of the real world hierarchy.]
--(weak laugh) Who told you that?
[My dad.]
--Do you love your father?
[(Long pause... nods)]
--What kind of Navigator do you use to access the Wired?
[When I was in sixth grade... my dad... bought it for me...]
--Do you like operating this kind of machine?
[Uh-huh.]
--Do you dislike questions like these?
[(silence)]
--You dislike talking about yourself?
[...(nods)]
--Why?
[...(long pause)...Because...]
--Because?
[Because I'm... I'm me, but I'm not me. I mean, I'm just me...]
--Who told you that?
[(silence)]
--Who?
[...God.]
--What god?
[The god of the Wired.]
--There's a god of the Wired? You believe that?
[(silence)]
--Answer me.
[(silence)]
--Answer.
[...There is if I believe there is...]
--That answer isn't good enough.
[...There is... a god...]
--Alright, fine. The god of the Wired is the god of the top level of the real world hierarchy - in other words, a being that controls the entire world. Is that right?
[...Who are you?]
==Layer 07: Society==
==Layer 08: Rumours==
==Layer 09: KIDS==
==Layer 13: Ego==
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