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It's suffocating. So, so suffocating.
Spoke feels like he cannot breathe. A sharp pain like that of a sword stabbed straight through his gut echoes throughout his entire body.
He feels as if he's being pressed and curled in on himself at an atomic level yet at the same time it feels like he's being stretched to the point of his very being getting torn to tiny gorey shreds from the core of his code to the edges of his entire being.
His flesh burns like his skin after being subject to an explosion just meters aways but so much worse. As if ten thousand tnt minecarts have been set off right next to him but he doesn't die.
And it's only for a split second, and he tries to scream, but he can't, all that comes out is a miserable little whimper of pain.
And then it's back to normal, it cant have been more than a second but he doesn't remember what he was doing.
Parrot is there, he's holding him because he's laying on the floor. That's not right, when did that happen?
What was he doing? He was talking to Parrot, right, that's why he's here. His mind is a bit clearer now.
"Spoke, are you okay?!"
No, not at all, that hurt so much. But its over now.
"Augh… Yeah, don' wrry"
God he can't even speak properly right now, how pathetic.
"You just glitched, and fell, on the floor. You don't sound okay."
He isn't, hasn't been since this damn glitching started.
"Nah, 'm fine, seriously."
Parrot doesn't buy that for a second. He probably doesn't seem fine at all.
Damn it, he's been hiding the glitching from almost everyone for weeks now. And parrot is the last person he wants to know about it.
He'll think he can help, he'll think that he can stop the glitching. But this is just what happens when you mess around with exploits and glitches like they're childrens toys.
Spoke knew what he was getting himself into when he started experimenting with glitches and exploits. Maybe he didn't quite know to what extent but he knew his code might get messed up a bit.
"Here wait, let me see if I can find what's causing the glitching. How long has this been happening?"
No, he won't be able to, even if he can find the cause, he won't be able to fix it. Probably.
"What? Like, I dunno… maybe a couple of weeks."
Maybe a couple of months, he honestly doesn't remember when the glitching started happening.
"Spoke! What the hell?! And you haven't told anyone, and no one noticed?!"
No.
"No…"
"Honestly, youre so dumb."
"Thanks man."
Pain. White hot pain
Again.
Usually there's more time between the glitching.
It's suffocating, he'd barely calmed down from the last one.
It's so much worse this way.
Honestly, he's surprised he didn't pass out. Yeouch.
"You ok? Sorry I might've nudged the glitch a bit when looking for it. Good news though, I think I should be able to fix it."
What?
What?
What does he mean by that? What does he mean he can fix it? He thought glitches like this weren't fixable.
"What?"
"I can fix your code, make the glitches stop, yk?"
"Wow, th'ks man."
Maybe it's the relief, maybe it's the after shock of the pain, maybe it's the comfort of his head in Parrots lap.
But after that, Spoke passes out. He probably needs the sleep anyway.
But he'll now be able to wake up knowing that he won't have to deal with that stupid ass glitching anymore. It's a nice feeling.