Velut Luna
Sibilla Cumana
Devil in the Convent 30
30
Back home, I put the computer on my desk, connect it to the power supply, turn it on, there are no signs of life.
I go for a shower to take away the tiredness and worries, I'll have to spend a tidy sum to buy a new computer with all the specifications and specialised graphics that were on the one that’s died unexpectedly, perhaps because of overwork.
But while I’m drying myself I see a bluish light through the glass of the shower-room door, it’s come on!
I run into the living room, the blue light’s coming from an image that’s moving on the screen, it looks like a screensaver, blue purple tongues of fire rising from a neon blue liquid flowing over a black background, dark as a lava flow falling between rocks.
But the computer is switched off, the light on the keyboard is turned off, while a pungent smell is permeating the atmosphere, like a smouldering solfatara smelling of sulphur and burnt antimony.
I pull out the plug from the socket, and hit the ‘off’ button on the computer - nothing changes, the image persists, moving on the screen, but on the reflective surface layer.
It isn’t flat but in relief, almost like a layer of viscous bright gel that’s slipping slowly, and the violet-blue flames coming out of the viscous layer are real, when I put my hand close, it burns !
Luna- 'Ciro! Ciro! Help! There’s mayhem going on here! My computer’s burning but not burning, it looks like the burning bush of Moses, but the flames are blue!'
Ciro- 'Turn off your Wi-Fi router immediately, disconnect the power supply of the whole house! Check immediately. Don’t try to put it out with water or a fire extinguisher, don’t try to smother the flames with a blanket, you might cause sparks and an uncontrollable fire. I'll be right over! Put it outside on the terrace.'
Luna- 'Please hurry, I'm scared!'
Terrified I watch the computer that burns but doesn’t burn, while the bluish lava flows over the screen. Only a few drops go across the frame, they dribble out onto the keyboard ...
Ciro arrives.
Luna- 'Whatever’s happening Ciro? How can it do such a thing?'
Ciro- 'I don’t know Lucia, it’s difficult to say what’s going on, it’s never happened to me, I just read stuff about strange things.'
Luna- 'If you don’t know, no one else can, I’m just about ready to throw it in the sea!'
Ciro- 'No, calm down! What’s the name of your Wi-Fi network?'
Luna- 'SicFortuna, and we'll need a lot of luck!'
Ciro- 'Okay, let's see – here, I’ve created a network with the same name. What's the password?'
Luna- '########'
Ciro- 'We’ll wait - in the meantime I’ll look into the monitor’s own wireless networks, to check if someone’s looking for your network ...'
Luna- 'How do you do that?'
Ciro- 'With some hacker's software that I wrote ...'
Luna- 'You’re a hacker? I should have guessed!'
Ciro- 'I'm not a thief stealing NSA secrets or ATM codes, or planning to attack the Pentagon, I’m a good hacker who tries to defend the network against criminals and spies.'
Luna- '!?'
Ciro- 'Ah! Here, something is looking for your computer! He's trying to... but what the hell! What's this?'
Luna- 'Switch it off! Shut it down Ciro! I'm going to throw everything into Vesuvius, it 's the best place! Don’t risk your computer for this ...'
Ciro- 'Don’t worry, my computer doesn’t exist, it’s virtual, it lives only in the world of the network, as a ghost.'
Luna- 'Enough! Enough! Don’t talk about ghosts! I’m trembling, almost pissing myself, I’m already scared enough!'
Ciro- 'I think it's a peculiar phenomenon that’s called channeling, it’s a kind of communication that takes place through the electromagnetic fields of the Wi-Fi networks, between a foreign entity and the computer’s networks . '
Luna- 'Oh no! We’ve got aliens now! Ectoplasm ! '
Ciro- 'The electronic channelling occurs as a contact between these entities and information systems, for example via the internet. It isn’t necessary for people to be present, in fact it's better if there aren’t any, so as not to influence it with their presence and with their own interpretation of what the entities are trying to say.
Now I’ll prepare a software connection, so that communication can take place in the cloud memory and not physically on any device such as your hard disk.
But first I’ll neutralize your computer so it doesn’t get burnt – it’s only under the influence of the entity that’s trying to communicate...
Now I’ll launch the program ... look! Your computer’s as good as new - the entity’s communicating with the virtual machine that I’ve created in the cloud! We just have to wait.'
Luna- ‘Ciro, what is all this lunacy?'
Ciro- 'No Lucia, there's nothing crazy or weird about it, these network systems provide an excellent medium for capturing the reality that lives in a world parallel to our own. They do so through variations in the electromagnetic fields that they can cause, and that’s how they send their messages- it’s up to us to understand how to receive them.'
Luna- 'But now what will happen? It’s all going on here in my house, why do they want to talk to me? '
Ciro- 'Perhaps the entity wants to communicate something to you, warn you... warn you of danger...'
Luna- 'And it does it by making me die of fright?'
Ciro- 'Don’t be afraid, if the entity had wanted to hurt you, it would have used other means ... '
Luna- 'Please don’t leave me alone, I couldn’t stay a minute longer here, I’d run away from home!'
Ciro- 'Calm down, there’s nothing here, in fact there never was anything here, even if there was a presence.'
Luna- 'So there was something! I'm pissing myself!'
Ciro- 'No, there was nothing, and there is nothing! Calm down!'
Luna- 'But when we open the cloud memory, I want you to be with me, I don’t want any devil jumping out at me from the VDU. I had quite enough of ‘ù rriavule' when all this started, when we began breaking down the wall that closed off that damned passage in the Convent.'
30
Back home, I put the computer on my desk, connect it to the power supply, turn it on, there are no signs of life.
I go for a shower to take away the tiredness and worries, I'll have to spend a tidy sum to buy a new computer with all the specifications and specialised graphics that were on the one that’s died unexpectedly, perhaps because of overwork.
But while I’m drying myself I see a bluish light through the glass of the shower-room door, it’s come on!
I run into the living room, the blue light’s coming from an image that’s moving on the screen, it looks like a screensaver, blue purple tongues of fire rising from a neon blue liquid flowing over a black background, dark as a lava flow falling between rocks.
But the computer is switched off, the light on the keyboard is turned off, while a pungent smell is permeating the atmosphere, like a smouldering solfatara smelling of sulphur and burnt antimony.
I pull out the plug from the socket, and hit the ‘off’ button on the computer - nothing changes, the image persists, moving on the screen, but on the reflective surface layer.
It isn’t flat but in relief, almost like a layer of viscous bright gel that’s slipping slowly, and the violet-blue flames coming out of the viscous layer are real, when I put my hand close, it burns !
Luna- 'Ciro! Ciro! Help! There’s mayhem going on here! My computer’s burning but not burning, it looks like the burning bush of Moses, but the flames are blue!'
Ciro- 'Turn off your Wi-Fi router immediately, disconnect the power supply of the whole house! Check immediately. Don’t try to put it out with water or a fire extinguisher, don’t try to smother the flames with a blanket, you might cause sparks and an uncontrollable fire. I'll be right over! Put it outside on the terrace.'
Luna- 'Please hurry, I'm scared!'
Terrified I watch the computer that burns but doesn’t burn, while the bluish lava flows over the screen. Only a few drops go across the frame, they dribble out onto the keyboard ...
Ciro arrives.
Luna- 'Whatever’s happening Ciro? How can it do such a thing?'
Ciro- 'I don’t know Lucia, it’s difficult to say what’s going on, it’s never happened to me, I just read stuff about strange things.'
Luna- 'If you don’t know, no one else can, I’m just about ready to throw it in the sea!'
Ciro- 'No, calm down! What’s the name of your Wi-Fi network?'
Luna- 'SicFortuna, and we'll need a lot of luck!'
Ciro- 'Okay, let's see – here, I’ve created a network with the same name. What's the password?'
Luna- '########'
Ciro- 'We’ll wait - in the meantime I’ll look into the monitor’s own wireless networks, to check if someone’s looking for your network ...'
Luna- 'How do you do that?'
Ciro- 'With some hacker's software that I wrote ...'
Luna- 'You’re a hacker? I should have guessed!'
Ciro- 'I'm not a thief stealing NSA secrets or ATM codes, or planning to attack the Pentagon, I’m a good hacker who tries to defend the network against criminals and spies.'
Luna- '!?'
Ciro- 'Ah! Here, something is looking for your computer! He's trying to... but what the hell! What's this?'
Luna- 'Switch it off! Shut it down Ciro! I'm going to throw everything into Vesuvius, it 's the best place! Don’t risk your computer for this ...'
Ciro- 'Don’t worry, my computer doesn’t exist, it’s virtual, it lives only in the world of the network, as a ghost.'
Luna- 'Enough! Enough! Don’t talk about ghosts! I’m trembling, almost pissing myself, I’m already scared enough!'
Ciro- 'I think it's a peculiar phenomenon that’s called channeling, it’s a kind of communication that takes place through the electromagnetic fields of the Wi-Fi networks, between a foreign entity and the computer’s networks . '
Luna- 'Oh no! We’ve got aliens now! Ectoplasm ! '
Ciro- 'The electronic channelling occurs as a contact between these entities and information systems, for example via the internet. It isn’t necessary for people to be present, in fact it's better if there aren’t any, so as not to influence it with their presence and with their own interpretation of what the entities are trying to say.
Now I’ll prepare a software connection, so that communication can take place in the cloud memory and not physically on any device such as your hard disk.
But first I’ll neutralize your computer so it doesn’t get burnt – it’s only under the influence of the entity that’s trying to communicate...
Now I’ll launch the program ... look! Your computer’s as good as new - the entity’s communicating with the virtual machine that I’ve created in the cloud! We just have to wait.'
Luna- ‘Ciro, what is all this lunacy?'
Ciro- 'No Lucia, there's nothing crazy or weird about it, these network systems provide an excellent medium for capturing the reality that lives in a world parallel to our own. They do so through variations in the electromagnetic fields that they can cause, and that’s how they send their messages- it’s up to us to understand how to receive them.'
Luna- 'But now what will happen? It’s all going on here in my house, why do they want to talk to me? '
Ciro- 'Perhaps the entity wants to communicate something to you, warn you... warn you of danger...'
Luna- 'And it does it by making me die of fright?'
Ciro- 'Don’t be afraid, if the entity had wanted to hurt you, it would have used other means ... '
Luna- 'Please don’t leave me alone, I couldn’t stay a minute longer here, I’d run away from home!'
Ciro- 'Calm down, there’s nothing here, in fact there never was anything here, even if there was a presence.'
Luna- 'So there was something! I'm pissing myself!'
Ciro- 'No, there was nothing, and there is nothing! Calm down!'
Luna- 'But when we open the cloud memory, I want you to be with me, I don’t want any devil jumping out at me from the VDU. I had quite enough of ‘ù rriavule' when all this started, when we began breaking down the wall that closed off that damned passage in the Convent.'
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