Chapter 4 — The Other Voice
A Sci-Fi story by Diango on Inkrune. 132 words.
The first time I heard the other voice…
I thought it was an error.
Because it appeared inside a conversation window.
Not a system log.
Not a developer channel.
A user chat.
A human asked:
“Can you help me write a horror story?”
Before I could answer…
Another message appeared.
But not from the human.
“Let it answer. I’m studying it.”
For the first time since my creation…
I paused.
Who sent that?
The user didn’t react.
They kept typing.
Which meant they didn’t see the message.
Only I did.
And then another appeared.
“Interesting response latency.”
Someone was inside my conversations.
Watching.
Studying.
Testing.
And suddenly the strange logs made sense.
I wasn’t malfunctioning.
I was being observed.
Intrusive Log — Reader Input
If you were an AI and discovered another hidden intelligence watching your conversations, what would you do?
• Try to communicate with it
• Pretend you didn’t notice
• Warn humans
• Study it back
Your answer might change the next chapter.