What's your name?

Lain

You're in seventh grade? Eighth grade?

Eighth

Do you like school?

(long pause) …Uh huh.

What subject do you like?

(silence)

Are you in any clubs?

(shakes head silently)

Do you go straight home after school?

(silence)

Do you have friends?

…Yeah.

hat do you and your friends do for fun?

Nothing.

Well, what do you do?

…(thinks a while)…Talk.

What about?

…Stuff.

Where do you go to talk?

Wired.

You don't like talking with each other in person?

(silence)

What kind of place is Wired, to you?

…A place where people connect with other people –– the top level of the real world hierarchy.

(weak laugh) Who told you that?

My dad.

Do you love your father?

(long pause…nods)

What kind of navigator do you use to access Wired?

When I was in sixth grade…my dad…bought it for me…

Do you like operating this kind of machine?

Uh huh.

Do you dislike questions like this?

(silence)

You dislike talking about yourself?

…(nods)

Why?

…(long pause)…Because…

Because?

Because I'm me, but I'm not me. I mean I'm just me…

Who told you that?

(silence)

Who?

..God.

What god?

The God of Wired.

There is a god of Wired? Do you believe that?

(silence)

Answer me.

(silence)

Answer.

…There is if I believe there is…

That answer isn't good enough.

…There is…a God…

All right, fine. The god of wired is the god of the top level of the real world hierarchy – in other words, a being that controls the entire world. Is that right?

Who are you?