You look at your dashboard. The audio posts are playing. They are all playing. You try to click one of them to stop it. It opens up in a new tab, playing twice. You close your dashboard. For a moment, the cacophony continues, but at last it stops.
That night, as you lie in bed, you hear them. Looking for you.
Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy’s first law of Equivalent Exchange.