I trudge back to my room, the weight of the world literally on my shoulders. I depart in three hours. Too early, how long have I been away from earth? How far away from earth are we? I should've asked father that. Too late now, I look at the white walls for possibly the last time, at the young souls around me not knowing their future. A staticky sound starts up; All senior students and sergeants board Lexis2300 I follow the flashing arrows and stand with a fellow sergeant, watching the soldiers get jabbed with syringes filled of a black liquid. I shudder and follow the sergeants on board, taking a seat next to Joël the only face I recognise.
"Ahh Knight nice to see you" he says
"Hey Joël" I say "what's the stuff in the syringes?"
"Sleeping stuff, it takes two years to get to earth and they asleep the whole time, lucky salauds" salads? What?
"Four years there and back? so when I get back to earth my sister would be ten" Joël nods, holy crap. "I'm eighteen" he nods again, I'm shocked does anyone else know their true age or are they still in fantasy land.
I follow Joël to a wall of what looks like those containers out of avatar which the people went into.
"This is it?" I ask, he shakes his head.
"I'm awake the first year" he says "then after me you and the rest of sleepers" I nod and change into the stuff hospital gown and climb into the pod allowing myself to be injected.
"Sweet dreams, Knight"
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Imminent
Science FictionSeth one of a million. Apart from his IQ being 154. Seth is chosen by C.O.A to be one of the eight hundred people who get to leave Earth on the spacecraft planned to leave in two days from different countries before the imminent end of Earth. Both o...
