So I started looking around this virtual reality room, checking for map holes and other useful VR glitches. If whoever made it was as sloppy as I thought, there had to be one, right?

I’m not sure why exactly I immediately thought I was in a VR, and not just some room that someone had faked up to mimic my old room exactly. It didn’t feel like I was wearing a VR rig.

But something about the room just seemed…too perfect. The lines of the architecture were too straight, they met each other at consistent 90 degree angles. And then there was that urge someone was pushing on me. They couldn’t do that in the real world. You can do some pretty interesting things with subsonics, but not make an urge as specific as the ones I was getting.

Of course, I didn’t know of any way to pop urges into my head in a virtual world, either, come to think of it.

All my looking yielded no sign of an exit. The door didn’t work, and the window wouldn’t open.

All right. I’d just have to try something else.