- Hunger

I sat there for some time. My brain had gone blank. I absolutely had no clue what I had to do next. My palms had become hot due to the energy flow which I had initiated a while back. As I had set the intention I could not stop it. I was feeling a little drained out.

I switched on the tab to check its battery level. It was showing low with the faint yellow light emitting out of it. As i could not think any longer, I thought of cleaning the tab and my hands which may contain poison. I had touched the Ricama roots which was 90% dried without knowing its poisonous properties.

Since I also had to charge the tab, I planned to spend some additional time in the kitchen and look around to see if there was anything else to eat. May be that gluey stuff which I had the other day. I did not want to take any chances with that green noodles.The noodles will be my last resort if I did not find anything else.

I then got up and started walking towards the kitchen. I carefully placed the tab in one corner of the counter. It was quite dark and I did not want to touch anything else with my poisoned hands. With a guess as to where the sink may be located from the last memory I had , I slowly moved towards the water sink . I washed my hands thoroughly. I then quickly tore of a tiny bit of my skirt and drenched it with water to wet it and then scrunched the cloth to remove any excess water.

I went near the counter where I had placed the tab and wiped all around the tab including the counter where it was placed. I repeated this many times as I was not sure if this water was enough to get the poison cleaned. But I had no choice .

Had I known that these roots were poisonous , I would have found some way out to be careful while using it. Once I was satisfied cleaning the tab and the counter I put the torn piece of cloth in the sink while the sink sucked the cloth inside. I now washed my hand for at least 10 minutes hoping that my hands did not contain any poison .

I then cupped my hand and had few mouthfuls of water and waited near the sink for few minutes to see if I fell drop dead. Nothing happened. That means the poison was no longer on my palms. If there was any trace of poison left, I would have been dead by now. I offered my prayers to god for keeping me alive.

The water seemed to contain a flavour of medicinal herbs which made me feel so much better.

Then I walked back to the counter pulled out the charging counter and placed the tab on it after gently touching the inscription on the center of it. I waited for few minutes before finally removing the tab off the platform. This time around I did not turn off the charging platform or tuck it inside and let it stay on, just so that the protection level of the dome increased.

Now was the turn to switch on the kitchen light. As I had tried the light inscription earlier on the side of the cot I thought of trying to draw a tiny inscription on the counter with my finger. I had to make sure that I remembered the size of the inscription and exact location of the inscription. To turn off the light I had to trace my fingers on the same inscription in the same proportion and at exact same place.

It then struck to me why there were so many inscriptions on the kitchen wall. I decided to use the ones on the wall rather than drawing it.

I carefully placed the tab on the cooktop counter and removed my mobile from the pocket and turned on the flash light.

Then I moved towards the wall which had all the inscriptions. It had been a few days I had looked at the inscriptions, so it took me some time to finally find the light inscription. I traced my fingers on it , in the required manner and the kitchen lights came to life. The light seemed very bright , I felt my eyes being poked with light. My eyes had gotten used to dim light and darkness in the last two weeks.

One thing I noticed was all the inscriptions, which I had seen using the phone flashlight were beginning to faintly glow, under brightness of the kitchen light. It looked like stars glowing in the sky on a new moon night. It had never glowed with the mobile flash light. The inscriptions seemed to be reflecting the light back. Anyways did it matter.

I planned to make a note of all the inscriptions on my phone and check them later using the tab. But there were plenty of inscriptions. If I had to note down each one of them and find out about all of them it would take me few days. I would loose plenty of time in the process and therefore decided to devise a faster and a smarter approach.

With this thought in my head I randomly looked at the inscriptions, to see if I could pick any one unknown inscription which I was drawn to . I saw one inscription in a close proximity to the light inscription which looked like a meter with markings.

I kind of guessed that it may be used to dim the light and I traced my fingers downwards on that particular one to see if the light dimmed. And it worked. The kitchen light dimmed by 50% which was good in a way. I did not want the bright light escaping out of the dome to be noticed by an animal or a human. My eyes felt better with the dimmed light. Was Ethan a human ?

Rachael "concentrate" I told myself. Again my brain was distracted. I looked at the wall to see if I could pick another one and this time I was not drawn towards any of them . It felt too complex or my brain could not register most of them. I left it at that , deciding to come up with a plan to work on these inscriptions. I believed there may be a pattern or connection between these inscriptions in the way they were arranged in a orderly manner, which I had to decipher.

With the now dimmed kitchen light which was just sufficient I started looking around to see if I could find anything else to eat. There was absolutely nothing. I moved my hand on the counter, the counter wall and almost all the places I could reach to see if there was any other hidden counter locked behind . Absolutely nothing. Apart from the charging counter everything seemed smooth. Not even a single bump anywhere.

I felt a little disappointed.

I finally thought of eating just a bite of noodles and drink some more water just so that I could sustain my hunger for some more time. I just ate half a spoon of noodles and then drank plenty of water.

I then walked out of the kitchen and sat down on the cot , thinking what next , when I had this thought, which I planned to put it to action.