Chapter 42: Meet the Authorities

The enormous hall reminded Matthew of historic ones that would host balls, executions, meetings. He wondered why it was shaped like that. There were tall columns behind, he remembered that the pattern belonged to Ancient Greece.

The hall looked old and extremely pale. One could think that every developed person in the room was a statue. There were 5 of them, sitting next to each other. Their chairs were like the one Matthew saw in Ava's house, but these ones looked older and bigger.

They sounded like they were breathing hard. The aspiration tubes were noisy and Matthew thought it was because they looked really old. Their skin was almost completely white, there was no life in their eyes. The tubes were coming out of their mouth and nose. Their dress was white and they had an extra white cover on their legs.

Matthew looked in the eyes of the one in the middle. His big bald head was crumpled, his nose was bigger than the others and Matthew could see the veins on his hands.