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Settings where some woman has omnipotent power over not everything, but just a tiny reality, are really cute and I wish there were more of them. Please let me know in the reviews what directions you'd like this to go! This first chapter is mostly exposition, because smut is better if there's some buildup :p

 


 


After a bright flash of light, steven’s physical body evaporated, and it was over. Materializing in a split-second on the simulated landscape of virtual earth


 


“Hey sweetie you made it! Good to see you!~” His mother says, drawing him into a tight hug at the receiving station. At something similar to a train station, there were blue receiving pads neatly spread about the place. Where people make their 1 way journeys to the digital world. Coming in at several times per second, people from all over the world used the service LifeSync provides. Offering a sort of digital afterlife to those seeking asylum from troubles of the physical world like aging, money issues, and mortality. Instead wanting to spend an eternity with those they care about


 


“Ah.. Hi mom! Yeah I’m here. That was a lot less painful than I thought it would be. It’s weird to think that this is all in a computer somewhere. That WE’RE all in a computer somewhere. Doesn’t that make you worry sometimes?” He says, squeezing her close


 


“Sure it does honey. But hey, I likely wouldn’t be alive otherwise, and it’s quite nice here! It’s lovely never feeling tired, too” She says, as the pair walks hand in hand out of the building.


 




 


After walking out the automatic doors, their ears are graced with the noises of birds, and chatter of people as they go about their days in the city. Seemingly a hybrid of redwood forest and city, people go about their daily social lives without a care in the world. With no need for food or drink, and no requirement for things to be powered by something like in the real world, things were quieter than you’d expect aside. No sounds from airplanes or cars, nor the pollution they emit. With no infrastructure needed like roads, power lines, and underground pipes and wires, people are free to build wherever they please; able to teleport around the planet at will to wherever they need instead of relying on transportation networks


 


In the sky above, there were twinking stars and the sun as usual, however it’s well known that those are fake. With the world suspended in the void in a skybox of sorts, where the company logo is subtly watermarked onto a corner of the blue daytime sky, and as a constellation of stars during the night. With a surface area about a dozen times larger than the real earth is, there’s plenty of room to accommodate the only few million people who’ve transferred over/been born into the digital world


 


This place isn’t without it’s politics however, as much like the real world, over several hundred years people gravitate towards their own ideological groups. Forming tribes/factions that reside in corners of the globe that they’ve established. While others experiment with ways to push the simulation like trying to penetrate the invisible wall at the outer atmosphere to try and touch the skybox. Those movements having their protesters, with the general consensus being “don’t do that! You could crash our world!!”


 


Over the next dozen real life generations, LifeSync had begun to fall on hard times. With the further development of simulation technologies, they now had competitors to their service rather than being the lone option as they were when they started out. With the final nail in their coffin being a version of the technology that anyone can implement themselves. A able to beam yourself and a dozen other people into a centimeter wide cube with a battery that lasts practically forever, running at up to 100 years per every 1 real world second depending on the user’s preference: holding a small floating island world the size of a metropolitan city, rather than a massive globe like LifeSync’s world. This was much more appealing to the masses as in light of recent catastrophes, it allowed them to keep their loved ones close and safe instead of trusting a corporation to do it for them


 


After 900 years, with no deaths save for the few people who’ve had enough life and opted to erase themselves, the end times had come. Over the years as the world moved on, the world was contacting those in LifeSync’s world less and less. It was gradual, first them being taken off the internet from time to time to save on resources, to eventually being request only. And with monthly requests to communicate with them slowly dwindling to zero, it was eventually taken offline entirely. The entire planet of now 20 billion people existing entirely within the a rather expensive thumb drive, built to hold something as precious as billions of souls. This was kept by the company’s owner who treated it with the care and respect it deserves, but since his death, it was passed down from him, to his daughter. With the company long since dissolved, the reality of all those people with all their relationships, experiences, and very souls held between the fingers of…


 




 


a young lady. The new owner of the world, with no accountability or expectations from anyone, who has godlike power over the utopia that has been constructed over generations, being a single, moody, pregnant 23 year old woman. A woman who actually regularly calls in to a book club in the little reality, and talks to a pregnancy support group. About a dozen of her friends and people she regularly talks to, being held captive in her grip.


 


“Reeeeally? THIS is where you guys live? That’s so Adoooorable! I just have to show you guys a picture. Haha” She rhetorically says to the in-stasis, unplugged world. Taking the small rectangular device, and setting it down on the sole of her slippers to snap a picture. Thinking to herself “they’re going to love this! It’s funny and cute!~”


 


She then plucks it back up, and plugs it in to her laptop. And after just a couple seconds, the world pops up on her screen. With nobody the wiser as things carry on as usual, not even knowing that they were unplugged and shipped around for weeks in the real world. Nobody knowing that instead of being under the care of a team of people or responsible individual, a regular woman with no accountability whatsoever is now sitting as god of their little world


 


“This is going to be so much fun!~” She says to herself, as she reaches her hand down, and clicks the mouse.

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