“ … head bumping with your sexy flatmate Kat”

“What’s that?” You ask, stalling for time

“You have played this game before, right?” The disembodied voice asks.

“Ah… no.” You reply.

“Look I will just transfer you through to there and you’ll figure it all out. Just brace yourself. The memory wipe can be jarring -”

“Memory wipe?” You ask in concern.

“Oh don’t worry. It’s purely fictional. You’ll be fine. It’s just important to manage narrative coherency. Can’t have characters going around and breaking the fourth wall and all that…” the disembodied voice explains patronisingly. “Save Ferris and all that meta crap.”

“Fourth wall?” You look about. “Where is it.”

“It’s in your blind spot.” The voice informs you.

“Where!?” You ask, confused.

“Right there…” you see some illumination and you look.

And they look…

You blink. Sone of them even like…

“Oh. My. God…” you swallow as you see beyond. “Ok. I’m ready for that memory wipe. And… never… ever show that to me again. It’s… unmanning.”

“Fine. So I’ll drop you at the start. This will be kindof weird and feel a bit shoehorned and hackneyed but just roll with the conceit ok?”

“Yeah… just do it… like right now,” you try not to look but once you have you can’t unhook. “Please. Now.”

“Sure, this might tickle. Hold tight…” your memories and sense of self fades and you float in a womb like space of nothingness.

.. head bumping with your sexy flatmate Ka… here we come.” The disembodied voice says. “What a putz. Damn I still have to fix %^*++*%#…”