Story of a Brain

An explanation: Erika Weaver, the character in whose mind are these masks, created the dialogue system for a humanoid robot. Lexicon is the OfficeCom belonging to her college friend, a man known as the Poet who Buys Words. Lexicon is used to store the words he has bought.

“Tell me a story.”
You want me to tell you a story?
“I want to see if you can do it.”
I can. What kind of story do you want to hear?
“Any story.”
Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to hear a story.
“Actually, I wonder if Lexicon or any of the other ‘Artifacts’ can tell stories.”
She was airheaded and never listened.
“Do you think they can?”
No, of course not.
“They only store words, but have no stories to tell.”
She already knew the answers to her questions.
“No stories can they write.”
That’s why she always asked herself.
“What would it take to make it so they could?”
You could put a hundred of them in a room, typing on typewriters for an infinite period and see what happens.
“A human brain. Do you remember that story by Ronald Dahl: ‘The Great Automatic Grammatizator?’ The man creates a machine that can write a prize-winning novel in 15 minutes. If only Erika could create a miniature one.”
That way, the girl could go on magnifying her own thoughts to the point that they became their own stories.
“The Great Automatic Grammatizator would be a great brain for Lexicon.”
Because, after all, it was in her own stories she was most interested.

(Yokka speaks first, then Jūyokka.)