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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KitanaVorr" data-source="post: 915196" data-attributes="member: 9167">December.11.2003Seattle17:56Katie turned off her computer, the satisfying click letting her know that temporarily her closest connection to the internet was cut off.  Yet she could see feel the world around her, feel the machinery - the tiny microcomputers that remained a part of everything in modern day life.  Microwaves, personal laptops, televsions, DVD players, cars, -- she could feel everyone of them, talk to them...It was nice to never be alone - to always have voices - inhuman voices playing in your head.  Yet unsettling at times, especially when she tried to explain to her parents this world.  It was a world they could never quite understand and she didn't understand either.  She knew that she shouldn't let anyone know that she was a mutant, that there were bad people out there who would take her away from people who loved her.And yet , it felt like being so false to herself to hide away like this.  To always hide something that was so deeply a part of her.  To be a caged bird singing a song - perhaps thinking she's free, but caged none-the-less.The CD player clicked on and <a href="http://pops2u.co.kr/music/popular_music/p13325.asx" target="_blank">Alicia Key's song - Caged Bird - </a>begins to play through the room, leaving her gazing at the fire in thoughtful silence.</blockquote>