C 35. Serene lll

"I felt different today as if I'm achieving freedom. I think this is a way of harmonising my powers and my body."

"I think so too, the report shows that the amount of energy in you has reduced to a certain percentage," she said to me.

"Okay, I think that is the way of my development." 

"No, you will wait and let the doctors do their things. What they decided should be your path, okay?"

I nodded at her. She kissed me on the forehead before she disappeared. Turning around I saw my food was already catching a cold.

***

~Whistling~

~Whistling~

It looks like my luck is always good, escaping hunters without knowing how is pretty good. All that tension and fear I felt is taxing on my mind all the time I face them.

The same old me, an irregular small solid life form. 

I drift in black space without a speck of light, but I feel the surrounding distance with my body. Light in this case is not needed.

What the hell…!

What is that thing!

Hahaha, this is impossible. Calm down, don't scare it. 

I move slowly as if I'm crawling till I reach the thing. It's a very small flat pebble. It was just floating in place, but through my senses, I feel it when it moves on itself instead of floating naturally.

From that I know it's like a living rock or something. I moved very close to it and observed it. It became motionless after I was that close.

Hmm, acting dead? I slowly moved until my body touched it a little. 

Oops!!

It's too fragile. I felt its body was about to break to pieces and with that, it was in horror as it started moving at a high speed.

Well, to me it was moving like a worm, so slow that after counting to a hundred, it was barely able to move past half of my size.

Speaking about size, I'm like a mountain in front of it. It was equivalent to a large grain size. The will I feel from it is enormous but still weaker than mine.

I conjured my will and said, 'Little Pet I'm going to protect you, okay. The place is dangerous and small stones like you will perish in no time.

As if knowing what I said it stopped moving. I spotted some crack on it, perhaps it obtained that because it exerted itself too much.

Hmm, little pet. It is a good thing to not be alone.

…

As I wake up, I find myself strapped on a vertical bed as usual. Ever since I signed the contract to be an exclusive Subject for nanoparticles experiments I always wake up like this.

Normally, I lay on a good bed to sleep. It was later that they strapped me on this bed after I'm passed asleep.

I have a dream but not a scary one, though I still can't remember it. It did seem unusual.

I looked up to my new attendant, his name is also Peter, and he looked at me with curiosity. Knowing the look I asked him. 

"Has anything changed in me?"

"Your scleras are black!"

"Oh, am I scary?"

"Not really." 

I felt hungry and complained to him. We walked down the hall toward the Sector 7 subject cafeteria. 

Accepting Doctor Khan's offer makes me think that he will proceed with nano injection on me, but I was wrong.

He said the more nightmare I had and resisted the more my body became more compatible with the Nanos. 

I did not understand the science behind it but I know I'm in for more dreaded nightmare dreams.

But it's not that bad if I will be having dreams similar to the one today it will be alright.

With that three days have passed but I have no more dreams even though I always sléep strapped to the vertical bed. 

"Hey, would you like to go to the general cafeteria to eat?" Peter was the one that asked me.

"Yeah, this place felt like a prison to me. There are not many people my age I know to mess around."

"Yeah let go."

Finally, I'm leaving sector 7. I might have to work with them but it's not that I will feel happy all the time. The scientists here are way too seriously doing their things. Only a few will spare some minutes to talk to you.

And sadly the conversation always revolved around their experiments. Though I get educated a lot but sometimes as young as I'm I need a good refreshed interaction where learning isn't involved.

"The scientists are as lonely as I'm. They seem miserable all the time. Always work no relaxation and each one of them wants his work to be known. But yet they have fewer people to talk to." I said.

"True. But you always meet them at the cusps or end of their work in the lab. That is why you judge it that way.

But if you will meet them after their 6-hour break you will see bright new personnel passionate about their work. I will take you on a tour to understand what I mean."

As we converse we came out of sector 7 until we reached school. A Lot of people are playing in the sports centre. 

Some are in class, as I walk around looking for familiar faces, I found no one.

I took the corridor to the cafeteria when Peter said he would go somewhere. As I walked I saw Mary coming opposite me, her eyes unfocused.

So Peter left and she came. I was about to talk to her but as if she did not see me and passed. 

Great, it seems she has other duties. 

I did not take four steps forward when my shoulder was grabbed and I was pinned to the wall.

Mary's face is pale with anger and fear, saying, "I'm not your pet, I'm not your pet, I'm not your pet. You get that, I'm not your pet...."

"O...okay, you are not my pet." 

It's totally weird, I never saw her like that. But my eyes triggered and I saw tiny veins all over her face, neck and hands.

Some kind of transparent sparkling liquid flowing through the veins. To me they are beautiful.

She was yanked away by sector 7 Peter. "You need to leave,'' he said.

She looked absent-minded before she said okay. 

***

It's a nice day if you ask me. This freedom is refreshing and loving. I hope I will have it all the time.

When was the last time I, Serene had a good genuine smile?

Suddenly my vision flickers, one of my eyes sees the other plane of my dream and the other eye is active and presently awake.

Anger boiled from my core and I said, "How dare you summon me!!!"