An Immortal 8

"You tore their limbs apart?" Jason asked curiously with an evil smile.
"I did not know how strong I was. My muscles had been completely remade and I was so completely overtaken by my libido, I almost wanted to eat them afterwards," Francis admitted.

"Francis, why are you telling me this," Jason continued.

"I just want you to know... I wanted to tell someone and I thought you could understand."

"Why?"

"I don't know."

"Continue," Jason heard himself say.

"Well of course I went to my father and asked him to explain why I felt the way I did and why it did not wear off until I had engorged myself with sex and violence and he said that there was a fluke in the system and that it could be fixed. It would just take some time. I told him I had killed ten men, tore them apart literally, but he said that no one cared who did what in AREA C."

"Everything is permissible in AREA C, but technically, you cannot leave AREA C," Jason commented.

"I did. Then I waited for days, hoping my next fit would not come around. Days I waited on and on til my father said he had fixed the fluke. I finally entered REGENESIS once again. I came out again and I could feel the fit coming around again. My father and his associates decides to lock me up in a room that I could not penetrate until the sexual/violent fit had passed through my body."

"In that room, I began to think about what a horrible mistake IP was and that humans were not meant to be immortal. We had kids to carry on with our lives... we had religion to link us to a spiritual past... this was all wrong and all the justifications about space travels and how we would gain such a competitive advantage over the others. It was all insane, all insane. The food supply would not support a growing population of immortals. How would immortals preserve their personality over the years, over so many different cultures... etc. etc. I began to think about so many things. When they let me out again, I decided to destroy all the files concerning the project. IP was a top secret government project that did not technically exist anyway.

My father said that the fluke in the system had been solved. but that the REGENESIS was making people impotent. Impotence, he thought, was a small cost for immortality."

"Yes. They told me that I was impotent, but impotence is a small price for immortality," Jason commented, "But I have almost forgotten. How did you come into my dream as a voice in the Egg?"

"Since you are a homosexual, we did not share a common dream... so I was awake, seeing the images on the inner screen of the Egg," Francis said.

"How were you helping me Francis? What would have happened if I did not extend out my arms?"

"Coma... although you are immortal, you can go into a comatose state for a day out of a week," Francis answered.

"I can go into a comatose state one day out of a week? Why?"

"That's how my father solved the sexual/violent libido that takes over for a day of a week."

"I thought he solved that by making all immortals impotent."