Scenario:Caim - A Kind, Foolish World

A Kind, Foolish World

While analyzing some sort of data, Caim is surprised at the marked increase in its randomness. Meanwhile a voice continues its story of the boy genius. As good-natured as the elderly couple were, the boy would constantly find faults with their generosity, in effect betraying their kindness. Caim's intelligence did him no favors, causing him to grow up in isolation, unaccepting of others' merits and faults alike.

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Caim: Yes. As anticipated.

Caim is bent over a desk in a dimly lit room with an utterly serious expression on his face.

Caim: The randomness of the data is increasing. We should be heading back towards normalcy.

Caim: They're the singularity responsible for all this. They have to be.

Caim: Heh. Well, I suppose this all would have been something of a bore if they didn't obliterate our assumptions.

Caim: From time to time, history has a way of giving birth to unique individuals like them...

Caim: And me.

His emotionless monologue soon fades into nothingness, swallowed up like light into so much darkness.

The elderly couple dedicated their lives to the child. To outsiders, they appeared the very image of happiness.

But to the overly clever child, this happiness was a sham, full of cracks and torn seams.

How could this elderly couple not realize how sad and miserable their pitiful shared existence was?

When he turned six, the child explained to them—nay, lectured them—about this point in agonizing detail.

To the child, it came as simply as breathing.

But after six days of such abuse, the elderly couple could suffer no longer.

And then...

Mysterious Voice: I'd... prefer not to speak at length about what became of the couple, if at all possible.

Mysterious Voice: Whatever the case, the same events repeated themselves shortly thereafter.

Mysterious Voice: There are lots of kind people in this world of ours. Foolish people too.

Mysterious Voice: And so it goes without saying that the child ended up surrounded by kind fools again and again.

Mysterious Voice: Unfortunately, the child, with his uncanny intellect, was unable to find a place to call his own.

Mysterious Voice: He could not bear the world in all its kindness and stupidity.

Mysterious Voice: Just sad really.

Mysterious Voice: Anyway, let's end there for today.

Mysterious Voice: Oh, and don't tell Caim about any of this, will you?