No One of Us

Part 9

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Singto Pov.

"I want to help too!". After a 5 seconds of silence between us and a Tee that faced the floor, Ming seems to react faster than everyone, "Okay...Wayo, you better make some tea for everyone and I'll give you some cookies that I've kept here, because we'll have to continue the conversation today". Krist and I both sigh and go back to the bedroom, and Tee steps right behind us and closes the door. "I don't have much time, only 2 hours or so, before Forth arrives." Already with everyone sitting on the bed and with their cups of tea in hand and some packets of cookies in the center of the bed, we began to hear Tee. "I heard everything that you said. I was coming in from the hospital and I noticed Sing and Krist coming into your room and I decided to listen to what you were going to talk about...I have some things to say...first of all, you guys are too dumb to talk about it here in the dormitory, you were lucky that I listened and not Forth...", the four of us looked at each other and laughed scratching a nonexistent itch in our heads, "...secondly, I also have some information to share with you. I have to know how far you want to go. It's not just a treason at the quarter...it's the government and all your armed troops. It's a crime that is punish with torture and the death penalty with 'hell', knowing that you're being hunted down to die!", I'm not surprised by Tee's speech, we're thinking about all this, betraying the Crows and getting corrupted, we even know death will always be around the corner waiting for our first glide. "What you did was stupid, you're fortunate that Forth has not arrived yet! He could have listened to you and turned you over to the quarter!", "Okay, we didn't think about it, we never heard noises from any of the rooms, but we didn't think about the door! Message given!", he said, shouting whispering and with his arms folded. Everyone looks with some fear but I find it extremely sexy an irritated Krist. Tee sighs, "Every day he arrives at 11:00 p.m. and as we all arrived here in the dorm earlier, we only have this time to talk without being caught...", *sigh* Tee now faces Wayo, "...Wayo! I don't know if you have noticed, but you have memories of your past...we all had a past before we stopped in the quarter...we are all, or well, we were Cupids!".

Krist Pov.

Were we Cupids? I don't understand anything anymore...one thing is to have memories without any nexus but another thing totally different is we have been Cupids. "Wayo! You said you feel guilty about those people's deaths, that means you know a lot about your life before you come to the quarter, right?", Singto asks Wayo who was staring at Tee and he listening him asking it, he now looks Singto, "I don't remember much Singto...I remember only Ming always by my side and the day those people invaded our community...I don't remember the life there or anything", Ming hugs his friend's shoulder, "I just remember talking to Wayo and always hanging out with him and enjoying his company, but I don't remember the invasion or anything.". The same way I remember Singto, but I also don't remember any invasion or anything like that, and if this is a memory then it means that he and I were together before we came to a halt among the Crows, the more I come to some conclusion, more the facts become confused. Just trusting in memories leaves us with huge gaps about the truth and at the same time is all we have to get at it. Tee's voice interrupts my line of reasoning, "I don't have much time so I'm going to share with you something I heard back at the quarter. Forth was responsible for taking care of our post-workout wounds and after a heavy workout I ended up fainting because It was a routine in a hot environment and I could not stand it and I fainted from dehydration. I somehow stopped in the infirmary and when I woke up I heard the voice of Forth and another person whom I never recognized and pretended to be still fainted, I wasn't going to feel comfortable waking up in the in the midst of the conversation between him and this other person, they also did not seem to realize that I had woken up so I just kept my eyes closed and I listened to their conversation. This person said that more and more new cadets in training of the Crows would be uncontrollable and that the less our minds were cleaned, the more difficult it would be to control us and the maintenance of the Cogito machine.", Ming interrupts Tee and looks at his face, he must be as confused as we are, "Wait!! Cogito machine? What would that be? And Tee, I'm sorry to doubt, but I still don't understand why you want to help us!", Tee looks at all of us and bows his head to his tea cup that seems to pass him some comfort. "Like you guys, I also have memories of an old life, but you are fortunate enough to remember each other or what your life was like in other places...the only memory I have is of a mask face tying a few wires to my head and turning on a machine. I was crying and begging him not to do that. He just looked at me and said 'Calm down, Cupid. You're in their hands now and I'm sorry for what you're still going through, but I promise to leave something random in your mind.' and then I felt excruciating pain in my head and then it all went out...the machine he would have attached to me had written 'Cogito' in it."