Talk:Empty Streets/@comment-24040907-20140710054603/@comment-24040907-20140831064128

Dear AIVic,

It is roughly 2 O'clock in the morning. Your reply came to me through email and the notification awoke me from my slumber. Seeing that you had challenged my memory of a good story I read long ago, I promptly shed my nightcap, blasted some House of Pain tunes on my voxophone, and reread the entire story with twice as much focus on detail.

Noticing that the narrator had not witnessed video footage of the Parasite conducting paranormal activity up to this point, it is logical to assume that his thought process was to make a last-ditch effort at humanizing his antagonist by associating it with a weakness such as an automobile license plate. I'd do the same thing given the circumstances.

However I must disagree with you at your next theory. No, I do not think that doors were meant to "screw with the narrator". Although, it actually does make sense that the Parasite could've teleported into the closet directly after opening the front doors, which sheds light on the narrator claiming it had been there "for a while". "For a while" in this case represents the variable amount of time it would take a normal human being to traverse from point A (the front doors) to point B (the closet), and also the time it would take for the narrator to shift his focus from the front doors to said closet. The Parasite wasted no time at all, teleporting instantly from point A to B and spending his remaining time at rest in the closet observing the narrator.

Pretty fascinating and very debatable, I'd say. I must thank you for joining me in discussion, for it has been a while since I've been on this website or over-analyzed anything to this degree.

- Zann