I Am Ezra (Complete)

Infiltration

I found Jenny sitting peacefully in her cabin. I burst open the door, explained what happened, and she grabbed her dog and started to run with me. Now running with her at my side, I feel a bit better. I feel like I can combat these strange forces with more confidence. Once we get to the house she is talking about, we'll be able to discuss things. The problem is it's many miles away, and I don't know how long Jenny can run. I think to make me more human a tiredness system did get programmed into me, but I don't know why that would help. I wonder if somehow someone at this house can hack into my mainframe or something and reverse these human effects. I want to run faster, jump higher, and stop feeling. Not to say I want to stop feeling emotion, though. I mean physical pain. Emotions seem to run deep within humanity. And Mr. Dagon's choice to share these entities with me make me feel very special. I used to hate emotions, despise them with every fiber of my being, but now that I've grown used to them, they aren't that bad. It's nice to wake up feeling happy, or depressed. When I'm looking at the immense beauty of the world of universe, I want to feel something. I slow down to a slow walk and Jenny stops in front of me. Both her and her dog look at quizzically and I continue walking. She seems extremely confused as to why I've just done this. A smile plays at the corner of my mouth, and I think of many things.

"What's wrong?" She says to me. I look at her, a confused look in my eyes.

"Absolutely nothing" I say to her. "Are we close? Does any of this look familiar to you?" I say to her.

"I'd say we still have a ways to go" She says to me, sighing deeply. I can tell that she is deeply troubled by something. I don't know if I should prod or not. I look towards the forest and remember the tree. I wonder if it's pushing me in the right direction. I never even got it's name. I just listened to what it had to say. If it even had a name, that is. I wonder what it even would be. But I decide not to try making one up. The tree shall remain nameless, and that's a wonderful thing. I think even deeper. The phone I answered. What does it mean? These bots that the tree was speaking of, could they be trying to speak to me? But who is going around and placing them everywhere I go. Why are they in such convenient places that I'll find them? It's a mystery to me. And no matter how much I wrack my brain I don't think I'll ever figure it out. It's a very confusing world. I continue to walk next to Jenny, what a strange contrast. But is it really? I have no idea if I could be considered human or not. Where is the fine line between man and machine? Is there truly an objective viewpoint? An unbiased one? To understand that, I think we would need an outside source. Something not human or machine. But something like that doesn't exist, and will never exist probably. After a while of walking the forest dissipates. Like when I still had my car, it's a vast stretch of grassland. Hills weave and bob up and down, and grass waves in the wind. My eyes fill with imagery, and I look around myself. What a beautiful place to be. I do not want this place to be lost to The Silence, or the nano-bot threat in the city. I wonder how many lives it has taken so far. I will resent it even more with every life I hear about.

The road seems to crunch under our feet as we walk. I look out toward the vast grassland. At this very moment, I want to sprint out into it. I want to run my hands through the grass and feel it swirl around me. I look ahead of me, and see Jenny pointing towards something. She is saying something to be but I can't stomach it. This massive thing is too much to comprehend. It feels like gears are whirring and turning in my head. I grip my forehead and run my fingers through my hair. I know what it is the minute I see it. The Silence. A massive wall of darkness billowing up towards the sky. It stretches along the entire horizon, and it seems to grow and shrink in my vision. Jenny's dog growls and recedes a little, but Jenny pulls it forward. I sympathize with the canine, I want to leave. I want to run away back the way I came. I want to die at the hand of the nano-bots rather than The Silence. I continue forward, however. Jenny seems determined to get to where we are going. We descend a hill and she points again. There it is, the house. It doesn't really look like a house, more like a bunker. It's grey and seems to be made out of metal. Whatever it is, it seems like a safe place. We get to the bottom of the hill and continue towards the house.