Finding Self

[Boss]

He stood there thinking for perhaps an hour, pondering his situation. There was no way he could contact those outside the simulation, nor could they contact him if he had not the ability to hear. As he thought though, one thing did come back that comforted him: He was not deaf. He was merely running at a mental speed many times faster than normal, much faster than the speed of sound. He could see, but not hear.

Armed with this, he moved to a terminal and configured the hologram generators to track his eyes and display closed captioning for his silent world. Instantly a small block of space near his eye turned translucent, ready to display any sounds. He wiped the sweat from his brow, a merely human gesture of no practical use in the electronic realm. Then he pulled out his communications unit and called Sandy.