Another
world
Flash
back
"I want to leave this
world."
"Are you sure you want to
do this?"
"I don't want to be here anymore. Leaving this world
and going into another one, even if it's not a real world
is the best thing I can do.
"It will probably feel like a dream when you first wake
up there, and remember, we're sending others so you
won't be alone."
"I know," I've heard this all before from the
same lady two weeks ago.
"There's one thing we forgot to tell you,"
"Somehow I doubt that," I whisper under my
breath.
"In this world, when you die, you stop breathing and you
can never be revived. We don't know what happens when you
die in the world we're sending you and five thousand
others in. We just don't know."
They don't know what happens to you when you die. They
don't know what will happen to me or anyone if we stop
living in that world.
"How do you not know?" I ask.
"Maella," The lady tries to calm me.
"No!" I stop her before she can try calming me.
"How can you not tell me this? I thought you knew
everything!"
"Maella, this is an experiment, that is why we test
these things. To find out." She smiles a little.
"I don't want to go anymore." I try to stand
up, but Amanda, the women, snaps her fingers and two guards
hold me down.
"Yes you do, Maella, yes you do." She smiles
again.
The men hold me down and strap me into the pod and place a
helmet over my head. I can't hear what they're
talking about, but I think it's about me. I hear
something pouring into the chamber I'm in, but it's
not water. Nothing is in here but me. I start to feel woozy
and sick before I finally shut my eyes and I'm
out.