Aaron didn't feel anything. His mind was floating around in a boundless void with no meaning, only something to place his mind in. It didn't have any other purpose. He wasn't thinking while he was in this state, yet, others were also floating around in this state. Some were asleep, and some were unconscious, yet they all shared the same mindspace.
Aaron's mind shot to consciousness, as he heard a male voice speaking out in his mind. That wasn't meant to happen, yet, even in his state of unconsciousness, he was able to hear a voice.
'Who the fuck are you? You aren't the system.' Aaron thought, directing the thought towards the voice, visualising the thoughts as spikes, just in case he could visualise thoughts.
The voice had an attitude, and Aaron didn't appreciate that. This intruder had somehow bypassed the system, yet thought of this as a place where HE was in control? He'd show him who's the boss here!
'Get out of my head!' Aaron yelled, as be imagined taking the voice and flinging it out of his head. He must have been right about the visualising thoughts thing, because the voice began screaming.
'You've had an attitude ever since you...wait a second. Did you just say that YOU were in the mask? How the hell were you in there?!' Aaron thought, surprised at this discovery. He didn't know, but that didn't give an excuse.
'So, if I'm getting this right, you've been forced to be a....mask? For a few thousand years?' Aaron said, confused, but he didn't think it was too strange. If there were gods, and he...became one...then it wasn't too unreasonable to think that curses like that would exist.
'Well, there is the chance that they noticed your precense, as you could have been exposed to Ki over time, although I don't think that's how it works, because I don't use Ki.' Aaron thought. He had no problem with saying it to the voice, because who was it gonna tell? The system?
'Now, why would I tell you now? I've only been speaking to you for a little bit, and plus, the system will explain it to you once I fully awaken.' Aaron replied internally, smiling. He was starting to like messing with this voice. It might become a neat little assistant to the System, or even someone to have a full conversation with when he was bored.
'Basically, it's a helper. An important helper. You could learn a lot from them.' Aaron responded, liking how he immediately assumed that System was an intelligence gatherer, which, to be fair, it could be used like that if he wanted, but no, he wasn't lazy. Best go head first into things and find out yourself.
'Do you not realise how creepy that sounds? Anyways, do you have a name, because right now you are just a nameless voice.' Aaron questioned, wanting to find out what he should call it.
'Yera...where have I heard that name before...' Aaron thought to nobody, just to himself. Then, it clicked. Yera Flyte was the name of that mercenary he saw once when he was a Skelengel on Eratonia! Well, isn't that just a coincidence? Or was it that this planet was....an advanced version of Eratonia? He wondered if his actions on that Eratonia affected that one. If so, he would be very confused
'Hey Yera, while you still a human, we're you ever a mercenary?' Aaron asked with caution. He just needed to make sure that this was pure coincidence.
'Oh fuck.' Aaron thought, accidentally directing the thought to Yera.
'Well, Yera, I don't know how to explain it well, so I'll just flat out tell you, alright? I was that skeleton.'
Aaron then heard a deep breath be taken in, which must have meant that be thought about taking in a breathe, and then his imaginary eardrums were assaulted.