The Key to Ithiccana
Chapter 1 -------------------- I was arrested for level three copyright piracy. It was the fall of 2133. I was given a life sentence and placed in a corporate prison. Dark Raven perpetual holding facility. My cell was a two meter cube. All metal. My bed was just a crude metal bench. The toilet was like a bucket with a drain, and there was no toilet paper. No shower. No window. No leaving the cell. The guards were sentry drones. About the size of a beach ball, they hovered above the ground. Black stainless steel coated their exteriors and within there was no heart to speak of. They're glowing cyclopean red eyes gazed into the cell from time to time, illuminating the dimly lit space with a hellish digital aura. I became insane quite quickly. Talking to myself, crying. I would pinch or hit myself, just to feel something. The drones would come every few days to search my cell. They would instruct me to strip naked, spray me with a cold sanitation foam, and leave me a new s...
