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“Hello? Who is this?”
“I will be asking the questions. Who are you? Where did you come from?”
“Oh… Um, I’m not… really sure about either of those? Sorry.”
“You don’t know? You expect me to believe that?”
“I don’t! Is that weird? I just kinda woke up here. I’m not even sure where ‘here’ is, if I’m being honest. It looks nice… Do I live here?”
“Is this some kind of trick?”
“Oh no, it is weird, isn’t it? I’m sorry, I’m just really confused. I don’t know what’s going on at all… I was actually really happy that you called. I’d been starting to worry.”
“When I… ‘called?’”
“Yeah. Thank god this phone was here, or I would have been waiting around… I dunno, forever, I guess. I was getting pretty lonely all by myself, I do remember that.”
“You were waiting for me to… contact you?”
“Uh-huh! I’m sure of it.”
“You know who I am?”
“Yea- Huh. Well. Not… entirely? I can’t remember who you are exactly, but I just think… I was definitely waiting for you to call me. That’s what I thought, as soon as I heard your voice.”
“...why?”
“Because… I’m supposed to help you, I think. It’s… really important. I don’t really remember anything else, so it must have been important, right?”
“You don’t know anything else? Anything about yourself, how long you have… existed, or anywhere you might have… been?”
“No. Saying it like that… I should be scared, shouldn’t I? Do you think I hit my head or something? I don’t… nothing hurts, or anything like that. I just can’t really think of what I was doing before I was here. I think, maybe… I might have been waiting somewhere? But I can’t remember where that was, or why, or… I just know it was really important that I found you and… helped. Heh, sorry, that probably doesn’t make any sense. It’s just coming up a total blank. I guess you must think I seem pretty unreliable, huh?”
“I see. How interesting. Then… Don’t worry about it. The past is immaterial; in many ways you are very fortunate. What matters… is that you have been brought here, now, to me.”
“Really? Then I can help you? There’s something I can do?”
“Perhaps. We will have to see what you are capable of, and… You really don’t have a name? What shall I call you?”
“Nothing feels like the right answer… Maybe you could come up with something? Oh, but what should I call you? What’s your name?”
“That is… Hm. You say you want to work for me?”
“Yeah! Anything at all, just ask me!”
“Then as my… employee, you can consider me as your boss. That’s all you need to know.”
“Oh… Well, okay! Boss… It’s nice to meet you! I can’t wait to start working with you! I promise, whatever you need, I won’t let you down.”
“I… Yes. Yes. It’s good to meet you, too. You may just be exactly what I need.”