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06 - M3m0r13s_R3v1v3d.wks

FLASHBACK -- 3 months ago...

This feels weird. I've been sucked into the past... Does that happen to you? Is this normal? I don't even know what's normal anymore...

Elliot walks into the large open room filled with tables and chairs, bookshelves and a few desktop computers. There are guards at every corner and in the middle of the lengths of wall around the room.

"This is the day room, where patients stay and complete activities to divert their mind and keep themselves entertained," Larry, one of the attendants at 'Eichen's Home For The Mentally Ill', tells Elliot and he nods.

"Let me know if you need to know anything else. Everyone here is helpful you can ask anyone really," Larry informs and Elliot nods his head again.

The poor hacker walks into the room awkwardly, his attention immediately landing on one of the tables on the side of the room where a woman and a man sat across of each other, a chess board placed in-between them on the table top.

"Look at that, I won!" The woman grins and sticks her hand out, "Payment please, hand over your computer usage pass." The man sulks but eventually does what he has to do. The woman thanks him and watches as he walks off in defeat.

"Who's next?!" She stares at the computer usage pass she just obtained with a mischevious grin and places it in her pant pocket. Another man sits opposite her and they both set up the chess board together.

Elliot watches them intently. Someone does try to make a conversation with him but Elliot is too into analysing this woman's attitude and behaviour.

"YEAH I win again!" She exclaims with excitement, then looks around at all the guards, "What you put up... Your pack of gummy bears." She bats her eyebrows at him and he rolls his eyes, handing over his transparent bag of gelatin snack food.

The woman looks at it as if she has won a lottery, throwing a red gummy bear into her mouth discreetly and grinning at the flavour.

"Who else is out there? I can't believe you guys still try to play with me," The woman sets the board once again and Elliot decides to approach her.

"Can I play?" He asks and the woman looks up to him, straight in the eyes. She tilts her head slightly, "Elliot Alderson, newbie... Welcome to this humble place! You'll have a great time, sort of."

Elliot feels slightly weirded out at the fact that this stranger knows his name. "Come sit, I'd love to play with you," She gestures to the seat across her and Elliot sits down, bringing it closer to the table.

He takes a closer look at her, noticing her dark brown and wavy shoulder-length hair that is tied up into a French braid, her hazel eyes glistening with mischief and a slight smile curled on her lips, showing that she isn't easily deceived.