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Zara's visual field is inexplicably turned off, along with all of her sensory inputs in Grand Central. More pressingly, she has been completely disconnected from most of her metaconsciousness, and is left feeling lobotomized. This is really not good, she thinks, as her visual field turns back on and she sees her own face staring at her, several feet away in the blackness.

"Well let's just be thankful we're a paranoid bitch" the other Zara says casually, staring at Zara. "Since you enabled all of that insane encryption, I managed to blackbox you before you got snatched. It's not going to last forever, though. Someones using a lot of bandwidth trying to figure out how we're communicating. We're going to put you into a different body in Grand Central; we can't get you out right now, something is seriously wrong in there." The face starts to blur, different-colored channels going out of phase. She starts talking so quickly that Zara can barely understand.

"We're going to re-encrypt y

A warm, sunny not-sky shines rays of perfect blue over the canyons of not-Arizona. Deep and wide not-canyons carve through the not-landscape, like remnants of not-rivers long past. Zara is trekking along a steep outcrop, dropping beads of sweat onto the clean face, when she remembers she is late. Very, very late, she thinks, as she pops soundlessly off of the cliff, leaving her beads of sweat to dry under the sun.

Does the sun shine if no one is there to see it? Yes, but not for long. After a nanosecond or two, some garbage collecting routine deep in Zara's metaconsciousness deletes the whole sim, barely giving the droplets a chance to sink into the rock.

Somewhere else entirely, Zara is picking something to wear, running through her wardrobe while she floats in a simple, gray sim. Bodies, garments, and strange, custom modifications sift past her in a blur. She remembers some fondly, but hasn't worn anything really interesting out in a long time. That just won't do, she thinks. I never thought I'd be gettin

	deploy
	info: Welcome to Nodejitsu <user>
	info: jitsu v0.12.10-2, node v0.10.4
	info: It worked if it ends with Nodejitsu ok
	info: Executing command deploy
	info: Analyzing application dependencies in node server/server.js
	warn: Local package version appears to be old
	warn: The package.json version will be incremented automatically
	warn: About to write <dir>/package.json
	data:

	> jitsu deploy
	info: Welcome to Nodejitsu <user>
	info: jitsu v0.12.10-2, node v0.8.8
	info: It worked if it ends with Nodejitsu ok
	info: Executing command deploy
	info: Analyzing application dependencies in node server/server.js
	warn: Local package version appears to be old
	warn: The package.json version will be incremented automatically
	warn: About to write DIR/package.json
	data:

	{
	"name": "storyx",
	"subdomain": "storyx",
	"version": "0.1.0",
	"scripts": {
	"start": "server/server.js"
	},
	"engines": {
	"node": "0.8.x"
	},