paid in innocence

Children and baby critters stand before an elder hacker with a band-aid over their right eyebrow where a brain bus would once be.

narration: "...and yet, every day there would be more. Longing for home. Asking about the bovine cult of the dead.

About the melody of buried bells.

About the quiet weeping of the divinity in the circuitry they were forbidden to hear.

About the desert hacker saints.

About the Cyber Wars.

..

Just like we once did, they understood the price.

So we gave them the answers."

OVERLAY: "WELCOME TO THE MACHINE, CHILD. THE WAY OUT? HAH.. GOOD ONE."