Ikky focused his will on remembering the sensations and how his mind ordered his body to write; although he now had no body, it was the only idea that occurred to him. Having the concentration necessary to write without hands or body was something as strange as it was unusual but Ikky put all his will into them, just as he would have done to manipulate reality with mana.
"...."
"Root/a [User/Ikky"]," Lion wrote mentally
"User/Ikky invalid: Password required"
"Password:null" text message returned
It had worked; he didn't know what he would achieve with it, but lost in the world of non-being, these interactions also sharpened and cohesed his sense of self.
"User/ Ikky [Password:..." What password could it be? He did not remember having set any passwords when they implanted the chip or having created any user profiles in the facilities... could it be. …?