C 38. Serene llllll

"Stop, don't cry to me, dear daughter." She hugged me. I can feel her heartbeat melody, filled with care and love.

I hugged her back and caressed her back the same way she is doing to me. She looked at my face and smiled.

"She has stabilized!" I heard that, but I did not dwell on it. 

She is tall, as I stood I only reached her neck. So I have to raise my head to look at her while she looks down. 

"It will be alright, okay. I have a meeting in China, so I think I might stop by to see you. You won't be agitated while I'm gone."

She nodded her head as if to ask me if it's okay. 

"Okay!"

The floor we stood on began fixing itself, until both the walls and floors returned to normal. A circle of light on the floor flowed to where she stood, and glass manifested encasing her before she disappeared.

I took a deep breath seeing countless lights forming a complicated pattern and then a complicated machine covered me too. It was filled with green fog.

Breathing the green fog made me fall limp. And my body fell on a soft mattress beneath. 

It was then that I saw the security personnel of the facility. 

A man with a steel skin, another one with a diamond body, another was encased with a powerful force field.

Others seem to be the attackers, they have this energy in their hands, from my understanding it may pack a punch.

I was closest to the left wall, it was then that I realized that the right wall was illusory. It was a hologram that masked the troops that were ready to intercept me, in case I went nuts.

I might have been encased in a machine and was incapacitated by the green sedative but their vigilance never seize. They eye me with utmost readiness for any eventuality.

I smiled!

I swear that I saw them waver in fear. 

***

That was truly scary!

It is a good thing I reached there in time or else things would have gone bad.

I pressed my earrings and a hologram appeared, floating in front of me. A man in his thirties smiled and greeted me.

"Madam, the meeting is about to commence."

"Sorry, Mr Ling, can you please postpone it till tomorrow? I have an emergency and I don't think I have the time to be there now!"

He eyed me for some second before he said, "Fine, but tomorrow, the meeting will be held around 7 am."

"Understood."

"You don't seem injured, why are you postponing it?"

I have reached home without knowing. I came out of the Pod Ship before the ship flew away at a speed faster than the eye can see.

I walk and sit opposite the man. He sat on an Automated Wheelchair that with his mere thoughts it moved. Serene put him on it!

"You don't seem to be injured why…"

I raised my hand to make him stop. "It was different, I felt weak just standing close to her. Her heartbeat has quake my innards, and somehow her aura is stronger than before. 

It takes all I have to show I'm strong before her, just not to show some weakness!"

"You are a brave woman and a true mother."

"You are her father, you can show the same affection. And be the true father."

"Nah, my will is weak. I love her but I'm scared. And she knows it, I can't fake it.

Good news, that man is back and I just booked a meeting with him, but the expenses will be enormous if I want to be healed completely."

"It's okay we can pay for it."

"You don't understand, after I see the astronomical amount, it is 80 percent of our entire wealth including the company and everything.

But I have a plan with the insurance and loan. We can make the expenses, later on, we may find a solution. Seeing that to obtain that Contract I need to be on my feet again."

"Loan will make us slaves. The world is changing faster. We have valuable connections and objects, the moments we receive loan money will be valueless only our expertise and abilities.

I think we can strike a deal with the White Facility. But I need time to know how far were experiments."

"You want to use Serene?"

"Yes, if she can work with them for some time, I believe they will pay any kind of money or more just to have her by their side.

I saw many others today. They are there to fight Serene in case she loses control, but all of them, I said all them were terrified of her presence alone.

Now that there is a path she may follow and control her powers, with such strength how much will the facility pay to retain her even if it's just for a time?"

"Will she agree!"

"She will! Besides, we can't cage that power forever. One day it will come out with all its glory."

***

As I gazed at the scientist moving around reading all kinds of data from the giant pod I'm in. 

"Call that boy, please, he may see things that you can't. This morning, I felt good and I relaxed a lot. And my mom said some percentage of power disappeared."

The leader of the scientist stood before the glass that covered the pod. He looked at me with a tired expression.

"Do you feel that if we allow you to come out, you won't lose control?"

"Yes!"

"Good, you are eligible for conversations."

"Call the boy."

"Balarabe is currently the personal property of sector 7. We can't casually summon him. But even if we can, you need to stabilise first."

"Your raging power may have stabilized but your mind is not yet okay. As of now, we wouldn't allow you to sleep, until your brain waves are back to normal. But you can have a good conversation about your experience today."