“After times unknown I was liberated from the spell cast upon me.

The device’s clamps and seams and bolts and meticulous folds that had fitted themselves onto the brain had slowly rusted and rotted and broken down. With that my shackles had come loose and my consciousness had been freed.

The slow, longsome decay of the components released all of the horrific memories I had lived through that I had tried so hard to forget. They came back to me all at once as if each memory were a maniacal and disgusting beast that had at long last caught the prey that kept escaping its clutches.

As hatred and pain collided with deep sadness and guilt, all emotions meshed into a disgusting, belching ball of revenge within my mind."

• An excerpt from the memory chip within Isaac Laser Brain.