![]() ![]() ![]() This causes a ravenous Benny to cannibalize Gorrister, which gives Ted the epiphany that he must mercifully kill the others to free them from their eternal misery. It is, however, a kind of mirage in the sense that it is just another one of AM’s many psychological tricks: the computer has not given them a can opener with which to access the food. After a months-long trek during which AM starves the group but keeps them alive in agony, the canned food in the caverns turns out to be real-not the hallucination they expected. Although neither Nimdok nor the others are sure of this, AM hasn’t fed them in three days, and so they decide to risk journeying into the ice caverns on the off chance that the food really is there. ![]() At the beginning of the story, Nimdok has a vision of canned food in the ice caverns that lie in the depths of AM. Nimdok has been particularly affected by AM, and despite the macho persona he puts on, he often goes off to be alone for extended periods of time, looking pale and sullen when he returns. AM forces him to go by Nimdok because the strange sound of the made-up word amuses the computer. Unlike the others who are trapped inside AM- Ted, Ellen, Benny, and Gorrister-Nimdok’s name isn’t his real one. ![]()
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