My brother and I were wading through a red pool of water. Three white bodies that looked like they were made from wax were lying on the surface of the water. Their facial features were simply crude incisions carved out of the molded head. We walked past them into the next room as my brother said they were “boring”.

I was a subject for a new kind of therapy where I had to sit in front of a screen watching silent videos. All of the videos were single shots of people walking across the screen in the middle of the city. Each video was taken from a different angle and point of view.

Our computers were set up a couple of meters apart and facing towards opposite walls. He told me that he had been playing a lot of Fire Emblem lately along with Final Fantasy. I asked which ones and he replied “the one with the world map”. Confused by what he meant, I pulled up some pictures from Google to make sure we were talking about the same game.