Chapter 2
"You Have Been Chosen"
In the morning when I awakened, through the crackling sounds of static I heard a computerized male voice say: "You have been chosen." The voice came from inside my forehead. The spoken words were quite loud and distinct and they were heard inside my brain, by my brain, not my ears.
The modulation was spastic like a child’s music box. The message seemed to rotate across the inside of my forehead on something resembling a hole-studded ticker tape. The message originated at my left temple and ran around the inside of my forehead and brain finishing at my right temple.
The word "cho-sen" had been spastically divided into two syllables, abrupt and jerky. For example: the word "you" was spoken inside my left temple. The words "have been" and "cho" were spaced evenly inside the front of my forehead. And the half a word "sen" had been spoken inside my right temple…as if on the last hole of the tickertape………………………………….
