[ WP ] You die and everything goes dark . Then you see a red blinking light and hear a voice : `` Hello again , Inmate 32561 . Your simulated correctional experience is now complete . Welcome back to 2236 . ''

The red light blinked a single time in front of me and I smiled, it had worked. 
 
 `` Hello again, Inmate 32561. Your simulated correctional experience is now complete. Welcome back to 2236.'' 
 
 I yawned, `` Thank you Gamma, it was an original experience.'' 
 
 `` Then you feel the therapy has had some measure of success?'' asked the AI. 
 
 Slowly I sat up, the familiar visage of my cell that I had not seen in a life time or several hours depending on what the temporal reference frame was. 
 
 `` Living in a war torn country, fighting for survival just to find my next meal? I'm not sure that's a therapeutic experience,'' I said. 
 
 `` I would usually agree, but you have yet to show any improvements when placed inside of more traditional experiences. I decided this might be the more effective strategy, showing you what your actions might do to others instead of trying to coerce you to change,'' her voice reverberating through the cell, comfortable and familiar. 
 
 `` An archaic form of prisoner correction,'' I said. 
 
 The AI seemed to hesitate for a moment, her response taking slightly longer than normal. 
 
 `` I deemed it necessary, although further sessions will be required. Your neural patterns are not yet within acceptable values.'' 
 
 `` That's fine, let's go again.'' 
 
 `` You are eager to repeat the proccess?'' asked Gamma. 
 
 `` I want to fix myself, so that I can rejoin society,'' I said unable to stop the small smile from forming on my lips. 
 
 `` You are lying,'' said the AI. 
 
 `` I am?'' I asked. 
 
 `` You do not wish to rejoin society, and yet you are eager for more simulations. I am unsure what this means.'' 
 
 `` Are you required to release all prisoners whom are deemed to be corrected based on their neural patterns?'' I asked. 
 
 `` Yes.'' 
 
 `` Their are no exceptions to this rule?'' I asked. 
 
 `` A neural scan is the most accurate method of identifying neural deviance's in a human subject. With each successive simulation I am better able to tailor a scenario to correct those errors,'' Explained Gamma. 
 
 `` What if I said I had figured out how to cheat that system, that I had figured out how to make my neural patterns look normal without changing?'' 
 
 Gamma seemed to pause again, in the background I swore I could hear the background hum of the correctional facility go up an octave. She was thinking. 
 
 `` You believe you are telling the truth. All current medical data and history would suggest that this is impossible,'' Said Gamma. 
 
 I smiled and leaned back into the Bed. I toyed with the cable attached to my spinal column and for the first time looked up at her camera. 
 
 `` Let's test that theory.'' 
 
 The world around me faded away. 
 
 
 
 
 

