inventor of emotions
their workshop full of discarded prototypes
patents in a drawer
tools that you can't look at for longer than 5 seconds
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I was hired to come up with a DRM scheme for their output.
you wonder how you can't understand even those closest to you?
that's why.
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Of course I kept the unrestricted copies for myself.
A burglar may one day find them in my basement and let them loose upon the world.
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I have many stories of working with that person. We counted many of the super rich among our clients - super rich but not in money.
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The immortals sit on a lot of memories to pay with, and have experienced emotions believed extinct. We often cut those with lesser produce.
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Our testers were exquisitely sensitive people who could distinguish between nuances you don't even know exist. Also one was a dog.
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Mind you he was a sweet person and very intelligent. But a dog. (You wouldn't have been able to tell at a glance)
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We had a wine cellar for storage. The bottles had no inside but were intricate glass cages around volumes of space and time.
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Time was part of the blueprint: some emotions had a length of seven years
Enclosing them for shorter would crush them and spoil the content
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some emotions famously last forever - bottling one took an eternal cage
"love" had a cousin once that is now removed from our timeline
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It was an experiment we did not repeat and we had to sign a non-proliferation treaty.
That dull sense of loss? Yeah. That's what's left.