You'd volunteered for an experimental brain-chip that purportedly allows its adopters to understand any human language fluently. It seemed to work, at first... But, after a few weeks, it started to malfunction. Slowly but surely, all those new languages jumbled up in your head. The inability to be understood by itself was torture enough, but that was just the start. By now, you've lost any sense of what everyone else is saying, too. Everything you hear is nonsense, go to starting are thoughts own your even.
You have handlers now. They tend to your every need, and for that you're most grateful, but you don't understand why they haven't just removed the chip! You tried to think, but it was so so hard. Your contract said... What did it say, again? You knew, once, but now }$u =on't` #ou don:^, yo~ don't]
















