C 1. Darkness!

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//_The early chapters of the Novel are slow, but it will pick up speed around 15 chapters!_//

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Dark.

It is dark.

I see darkness everywhere. Nothing in my vision but darkness. 

I am floating, moving continuously. 

I do not know how I got here? No! That is not the right question, the right question is who am I? 

I can't seem to remember, but I'm human... right? That was the basic thing I can be sure of. I know how I look, I have the image of me in my head, and at the same I'm different.  

It is still darkness, more than that there are no sounds, it is eerie silent. Now that I think about it, it is not entirely correct. I hear a sound, but not the one I'm expecting. The sound is very low and muffled or booming like a sound that you may hear when you were submerged in water.  

No, I don't think I describe it correctly, but you get the gist of it. Let me listen again. I think I'm close to something...… big

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Hmm, this should not be. My previous conjecture is wrong. Now that I listen for a good amount of time, I'm able to identify what I thought was a sound: It was a vibration. 

Ahh, why do feel like I sound stupid? Okay!  I'm beginning to remember things related to sound: It's said that sound is produced through the vibration of air.  

I don't remember much, but that was what popped in my mind. So, if it's a vibration then it is a sound.  I'm not a physicist, but sound can only be heard by the use of ears, what about if the body is feeling the vibration, is it sound?

Oh! New term 'Physicist' that I don't know what it stands for.

I love thinking this way because it helps me remember things I seem to have forgotten. 

My body is rigid and immovable. Not only that, but I can't hear, see or smell. Wait I can't breathe let alone smell. 

I don't know who am I! let alone what I am! From my memories, humans should be able to have limbs and other organs that are in constant motion. The heart is the great example of that, it pumps non stop and…...

Acceleration? I'm moving faster than before. The speed is increasing, no, no no! I can't stop myself, the vibration is intense, now I feel like my body will tear apart. 

Argh, I hit something...… 

Thank goodness, I'm still alive! I did not scatter! What was that, what made me accelerate? It was like I was suddenly moving very fast for no reason.

 What did I hit? The good thing was, whatever I hit is not that very solid. 

It's solid material but it must have a soft tissue or substance inside. So, after hitting it with that momentum I bounce away.

This acceleration and bouncing off of this massive thing made me realize, I am a solid object! My intuition and feelings are denying my new found fact. Emotionally, I still feel human but sadly my body said otherwise! Maybe I .... 

What is that?  Haha, finally I can see. There is this dot of light. It is flickering and coming to me. 

I have eyes! Eyes are good to see the world and see colours: my favourite!

Wait! I'm not seeing it with eyes, but I feel it on my body.... Is that how it's?

No!  Move away! Float away!  Damn! Why can't I move my own body?

Move! move! move! accelerate! Ahh, don't come closer! Close my eyes, I don't want to see it, no I can't. I am seeing it with my body! 

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!

I kept screaming like someone who is in great pain. Through the panic, I heard sounds of footsteps coming closer.  A piercing pain on my neck awakened me completely. 

I try opening my eyes, but there is this thing wrapping around my head. My body was strapped on a standing bed: I know because my weight is moving forward, if I did not hold myself or the two men or women not holding me well, I will have fallen on the floor. 

My mouth is the only free thing and that was why I was screaming.  I calmed myself a bit and thought about what was happening. 

'Haha, I'm indeed a Human being!' That was my first thought. 

But the question is, why am I happy about it?  Don't get me wrong, being a human is better than an animal. In my case, why would I be happy about it while I'm already a human? 

'I forget the dream again!' I said to myself sadly. 

.... 

"Subject 3519 has woken up." A man wearing milky trousers and a shirt with a lab coat said after pressing a button on a board full of different buttons.

He was sitting on a chair before a humongous screen the size of a household gate in a dark room with only the screen illuminating the surrounding. 

A few minutes later a door opened and another person of the same clothes entered and stood beside the other one. 

"He has the dream again?" The newcomer asks. 

"Yes Sir."

"Good, send him to the chamber."

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After un-strapping me I was helped to a chair.  They did not remove what was wrapping my eyes immediately until I calmed down and my thoughts were straight.  I tell them that I'm fine before one of them removed the belt from my back head and gently unwrapped it from my face. 

When I opened my eyes, it was still dark but not that dark. With time my eyes adjusted, and I saw the silhouette of two men. Looks like this time it was men not women. 

I looked around. A light coming from outside through a tiny little gap between the door the and floor. 

As I'm observing the surroundings and getting used to the sight they are also observing me. Before one gestured to another, and he pressed his wristwatch. The fluorescent in the centre of my room ceiling lit. 

It was not intense at first, but it increased until the light was normal to the eye. Now I can see them clearly. Well, we met so many times. They are two of the six people that take care of me. 

Yes, I have six attendants that shift in serving me like a King. They respect me and do my bidding, not everything of course. 

Well, I like to think that way, or I will be depressed knowing that I'm but a Lab Rat. 

I was allowed to go to the toilet to wash among other things. Usually, I will be taken to a small kitchen where I will eat, sometimes we eat together with the attendants, but today we are taking a new route. Argh! Interrogation room: technically it's just a room where I'm asked a lot of questions also observed and experimented by a group of lab-coats and gloves wearing men: I mean doctors. 

This is not the room.  I have never been here before. The other observation room is to the other side, not this corner. Looks like I will be going to a new room. For something different, I guess.

We stand before an automatic door, waiting for it to be opened. 

I'm beginning to hate white. This hall with no windows is white. Windows?  I have not seen one in here.  My room floor, walls, and ceiling are all white. The clothes that I'm wearing are white. It's just a normal cotton shirt and trousers together with white soft shoes. And even around the facilities before you see any colour that is not pure white you need to strain your eyes and go to different sections, that is if they take you there. 

I was lost in my thoughts on disliking a white colour when I felt one of the men nudged me, and I walked inside. A completely white room, this place knows how to make someone hate something that is supposed to be beautiful, yes white supposed to be an adorable colour but here tsk! 

It is a large white hall with nothing inside, but a florescent on the ceiling, a white table at the centre, and two white chairs at either side of the table. A man in white is standing at the other side of the table: I mean he wore milky coverall and put on a white lab coat and white globe. I bend to look underneath the table. Yes, he is wearing a white shoe. 

Without waiting to be asked I went and sat down on one of the chairs. 

"Good Morning, Bala." I heard him say the moment I was about to sit.