He's alive! Part 1

As you are probably well aware by now, Rome and Rei have a special method of communication. They have an EM transceiver built into their brain that Rei calls a cellphone in the head. It was due to the genetic modifications caused by the magic yellow pill that were given to the couple near the end of Part 1 of Rome's Revolution. In a previous post, I showed you a scene where the channel was sputtering, trying to turn on, they just didn't know it yet.

Yesterday, we saw that Rei got thrown in a makeshift jail because the Ibbrassati didn't trust him and assumed he was crazy. If there was ever a time for it to kick in, this would be the time. But the source of the first transmission came as quite a shock to Rei. Here is that scene:

     Rei looked around and saw only a cot and a chair. The room had an acrid smell to it, like stale urine. The Vuduri themselves were a very clean people. The mandasurte were of the same stock so Rei had always assumed they would be very clean as well. But the odor coming from his clothes coupled with that of this room indicated this just was not the case. The room had no windows. That eliminated the chance to escape or even to air the place out.
     Rei paced around for a while then grew bored with that. He walked over to the cot and sat down. He lifted his legs up off the floor and swung them over the bed. He couldn’t quite relax as there was too much tension in his limbs. He put his arm over his eyes.
     “Oh Rome,” he thought to himself, “There is no hope for the future. Every single one of them is insane.”
     “Not all of them,” said a little voice inside his head, “just most of them.”
     “MINIMCOM?” Rei said out loud. “Is that you? Where are you?”
     “Still buried underneath your Ark at the moment,” replied MINIMCOM.
     “How the hell are you talking to me then?” Rei said.
     “Technically, I am not talking to you. You simply hear my transmission inside your head. It is more like I am thinking at you.”
     “Thinking at me?” Rei said. “Do I need to speak out loud? Can you hear my thoughts?” Rei thought to himself.
     “Yes.”
     “So…this is like the bands? Or is it? How are you doing this?”
     “Now that your transmission apparatus is fully functional, it is actually you who are doing this.”
     “What do you mean my transmission apparatus? What’s going on? Did the Vuduri do something to me?” Rei thought to himself.
     “No, it was not the Vuduri,” replied the little computer.
     “Then what? Who?”
     “OMCOM made a few…enhancements to you.”

Tomorrow, the full implications hit Rei plus MINIMCOM has more surprises up his sleeve. If he had sleeves, that is.