Reality

The room wasn't very well lit. In fact, the only lights where coming from a scrolling list of numbers. The figure in the chair in front of the giant computer smiled and cracked his knuckles. He slowly set down his fingers on his QWERTY keyboard. Suddenly his fingers starting dashing from key to key, making no noise as the numbers on the screen, one by one, turned black. He smiled as suddenly the whole screen lit up. No one else would even think about setting that as a password, a constantly changing and fast paced set of numbers which all had to be typed in before the first one reached the bottom of the screen, or else everything restarted. It was quite ingenious, if he might say so himself, but enough of him marveling at his own genius, he had enough other people doing that for him. He slowly reached to his right and picked up a small helmet, putting it's perfect fit on his head. Suddenly his vision changed and he saw a grayness around him as he started falling... Falling... Falling...

The blond flicked her hair and smiled prettily at her image reflection, making sure the lipstick looked right. She blinked her long, thick, dark eyelashes and her blue eyes twinkled at herself in the mirror. She looked around at the clean, white woman's restroom before walking out, her high heels clicking loudly against the tiles before the transition to the carpet outside. Her white, button down, rather thin shirt brushed smoothly past the oak door that was her bosses room. She suddenly felt most of her confidence melt away. Her knees shook a little bit as she stared at the name engraved on the door. She closed her eyes, breathed in slowly, readjusted her hair, straightened her short dress and slowly opened the door, meanwhile saying "Sir? Sir are you there?". She took a nervous step in, and the door closed slowly behind her of it's own accord. "Sir, are you in here?" she asked. She took another step forward, and could now clearly see the lettering on the screen. She slowly took a step around the chair to look at her boss. She saw his limp body on the chair and screamed, the bright red letters on the screen still flashing on her as she ran out of the room, System Error.