C 43. Happy Reunion

She only eyed me for a moment and then she continued.

"The reason why ability users usually ignore their dream just as you said you forget it exists is that the Dream Plane has become a second world to you.

And your brain has learned to filter the memory you obtained from there and buried it down. 

This started when you were just a baby. The brain of the baby gradually adapts and buries the memory if it's harmful. 

Though sometimes the memory is severe that might result in some damage to the baby's thought and behaviour.

But that rarely happens as the ability user's body and mind are equipped to handle the Dream Plane. You can see that even Null goes to the Dream Plane, which shows that they are being prepared for what is to come."

We were at when the office was knocked, and she allowed the person to enter. It was Peter.

"It's time for his nap," Peter said.

She looked at me. "We will continue later, have a nice dream."

Yeah, I'm on scheduled sleep. I have 8 hours to be awake on paper, and the rest of the day I will be sleeping. If by any chance I have nightmares that force me to wake up then the schedule might change a bit.

I walk back to my room with Peter in tow. Looking at the bed gives me bad premonitions. As usual, I sleep on a normal bed but the personnel will later strap me on the vertical bed.

They said, sleeping vertically may induce more dreams but it is also a safe way for us to wake up faster if we can't handle the content of the dream.

I hope my instincts are wrong!

I lay on the bed and take a deep breath. Turning around over and over, I couldn't sleep. 

I slid down and looked at the bed again. It is a floating bed, all the personnel has to do is strapped me while I'm horizontally sleeping and then adjust the bed position into vertical.

I jumped on it, it floated down because of my weight and momentum. 

Hooo, lying on it feels like floating on water or clouds.

I can set the bed to float down and up continuously. But I'm not allowed to use that option

As time passes surely and gradually I drift to sleep.

***

"Your assimilation improved your control over the metal in you. This may also mean the more you assimilate the better you will become."

"Yeah, but the control is limited to a certain distance, I feel if the metal is far away from me I will lose its connection."

He nodded. "Okay Serene, you will sleep now."

"Okay."

I'm already tired. A simple dreamless sleep will help. 

I watched as formless energy wrapped around the metal ball and it moved out of the mattress pod.

They take the metal into a machine that I recognised as a scanner. Ahh, my body control is returning to me together with deep exhaustion.

By the time I'm able to make a fist and control my hand I was already falling asleep.

…

My eyes opened lazily, a white ceiling covered my hazy vision. I yourn and stretched my hands.

I'm fully rested. Looking around, this is not my room.

The room is spacious, about 20m long and 10m wide. Nothing was in it but the bed I was on.

~Hmm~

I sat on the soft king-size bed. White, everything is white. White mattress, white bed sheet, white blanket, white floor!

It reminds me of the first time I came to this facility where I was given a room that was all white. Spending some months there they changed me to a colourful normal room.

Now I'm back to the notorious white room!

~Sigh~

Sliding my legs to the icy floor, a circle lit a couple of meters away from the bed. It later materialised as a mini toilet.

…

In 20 minutes I washed my body and wore a clean dress. 

The room is a full option, it has everything a complete House needs.

The bed disappeared after I got off it. Whatever I want I just have to say it with my voice and it will appear.

Now, I was sitting on a white couch watching Anime from a TV when a holo screen appeared in front of me requesting an audience.

Seeing the identity of the people I hurriedly accepted.

At one end of the room, a door appeared and two people entered together. One tall lady and a person sitting on an automated wheelchair.

My parents!

I voiced the TV to disappear and made another couches appear making a full parlour with a small table at the centre.

I also order snacks for the guests. A white platform flew from the ceiling full of fruit drinks and snacks and rested on the small centre table.

All this happens in the blink of an eye before they reach the mini parlour.

"Good morning Ma, Good morning Pa!"

I'm shy toward my father because I can still remember when I snapped his back willingly and crushed his legs.

"You seem good, and this room is amazing. I tried installing a similar tech back home but it was too expensive." My father said beaming with a smile.

Through his heartbeat I know he was not faking it.

"Yeah, the tech behind disappearing and reappearing of the objects is high end, some believe it's magic, not science." Ma said with smiles.

I just listen to them admiring the surroundings, to me, it's boring white despite it being a great tech. 

Maybe I was just immune to it because I have seen it many times that I can count. 

"Ma, how was your trip to China?"

"Fine, it was a success, the old guys there took my design and want to implement it, if it's a success I will have a certain percentage from them as long as they are using my design!"