He followed the signal. Was adrenaline flooding through his body? Or, was the thrill he felt entirely intellectual? Was the mind divorced from the body when roaming cyberspace, or was this nothing more than an illusion, an amazing metaphor?
Out of the net he knew it went, like a strange and coiling cave, dripping with viscous fluids. Strangely biological. More real than anything he had ever experienced when jacked-in.
He flowed down the data stream as if plunging into black waters. He felt lungs that were still back in the meat world burning with the sensation of drowning.
Too real.
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