- Replace

I finally am awake and feel energetic and refreshed. I never got a chance to check my phone while Ethan was here. He seems to be a good man and looks like a Greek god. Oops I don't want to get infatuated.

I need to get out of here. I'll need to wait until Ethan is back and gives me that unknown device . It may serve me the required purpose and help me to get out of here. But before that let me check on something.

I quickly put the battery back to the phone and switched it on. It shows 52%. The intention symbol seems to have worked. I slowly get up and go towards the kitchen and try switching on the light with that inscription and I hear some hustle bustle outside. I get a little terrified and quickly turn the ceiling lights off and the sound dies down. That's strange.

While Ethan is here and the lights are switched on all the time, I have never heard this. Should I ask Ethan when he is back the next time? I guess not , he may get a doubt that I have been exploring and all my plans may get foiled. Let me not take the risk of asking him and I'll need to figure it on my own.

I slowly turn on the flashlight in the phone and dim the light. The kitchen counter has not been tucked into the wall. And I see the pot containing the soup which Ethan had mentioned earlier. I slowly look at the shelf to look for that tiny bottle containing the grey powder. I try to open the lid, it does not budge. I just think for a second. Every thing out here works here in an opposite direction . So I turn the bottle cap in opposite direction. It worked. I slowly get the bottle near my nose to smell it. Disgusting pungent smell. I don't want to taste it and take a chance of got back to sleep. I then quickly eat the soup in the bowl. This time it did not taste bad.

I slowly close the bottle cap put it back in the shelf , go back near my cot. I think of a quickly replacing the grey powder with a substitute. I look around and look at the floor, which was damp the other day. I slowly bend down and scrap some mud from under the cot. I don't want to make it obvious and want to make sure the floor from where the mud is scraped out is well hidden. I make a small heap out of the soil. And then start sending power and healing energy to turn it into edible substance. As I already have the gift of colour and smell , I then slowly began to chant the mantras and I can feel the soil slowly turn into grey and start emitting the same pungent odour. I stop the mantra.

I quickly run back to the kitchen, with the phone flash light on, remove the bottle from the shelf, open the cap. I then look around to figure out where to throw away the contents of the bottle and I see a tiny sink hidden in the dark corner of the kitchen counter. I quickly dispose the contents into the sink and I see the water quickly seeping from all the corners of the sink to dispose the content. And within seconds the sink turns dry.

I give a quick sigh and run back to the cot while tightly holding the bottle. I quickly put the freshly prepared pungent soil which is now edible into the bottle , close the cap, run back to the kitchen. Put the bottle back and run back.

I was nervous all this while , shivering and worried that Ethan may turn up any time. Finally I am relieved. But then I suddenly start wondering how did the soup that Ethan gave me taste different and the one which I just had tasted completely different. I guess he must have forgotten to put the powder. At least the next hurdle is crossed. I wonder how many more hurdles I may have to cross.

I still need to figure out why he lied to me. So I decided to put up a quick act. I quickly check the phone battery charge and see it dropped to 40%. Energy is being used for lights and power to tuck the kitchen counter back to the wall, there must be some source of main energy outlet which I need to figure out later . I'll need to charge my phone at a faster pace , so I need to look for it. For now I put that thought to my next action plan.

I now need to use the phone camera in dark mode and capture what Ethan does while I am asleep. I set the phone to record Ethans actions and hide it in a corner of the cot where it cannot be seen. I lie down and initiate the energy flow to phone hoping it will charge with the battery still inside the phone and while the camera is recording . I always charge it with the battery removed out of the phone but I am hoping this method will work. I pray to god and have my fingers crossed while I silently wait for Ethan to return.

After some time I hear the door creak and I know Ethans back. And I continue to act as though I am in deep sleep. I hear the door creaking and I guess he is closing the door. But even after few mins I don't sense the lights being on. Is he not cooking? That's strange. But now I know my camera is slowly recording. And this camera had an auto save option, if the phone switches off while it is still recording. So I know that I'll be able to see what's cooking while I am asleep.