The Last Daybreak

2 - Prison

2 - Prison

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[Zoe]

My time on Earth is over. I had accepted that.

I wasn't fully aware of my surroundings yet. Sometimes darkness and other times a faint light approached me as I tried to wake up. I never gave it much thought how long was I not moving — and for a long time, might I add. Was I dead? I can still think about earth so I'm probably still okay. Unconscious — yes that's the word. I was unconscious. Thank god my other senses for completely adapting to the loss of vision. My ears were able to detect audio-synthetic chirping — too robotic to sound like real birds. How I wished I still had my very comfortable mattress beneath me. The soft, flower-scented pillows I have and the warm blanket that shielded me through the winter (and almost any form of cold, really).

No. None of that here. Cold, stone-hard floor is what I'm lying against.

I only got to comprehend how long I've been maintaining the same position while I was dozing off. Once I moved, it felt like a fresh batch of corn was crackling and popping in delicious harmony. I grunted as I stretched.

"Is she waking up?" I heard a voice to my left ask as I tried to open my eyes to no avail. It was sealed tight and didn't want to open. I felt like if it did, my eyelids would feel like two pieces of paper glued together as a person tried to separate them. The result were two torn papers and that was what I was trying to avoid.

I fell back down as if my muscles didn't work for a moment, letting me fall back to the rocky surface of this place.

Another voice joined the conversation, "Nope. I'd give her 2 minutes."

"And after that?"

"Ask her some questions. That will be nice to know what her name is if she was deemed useful by the powerful one. A fine addition considering she put one heck of a resistance." He commented on my weak fighting. I grumbled as I attempted to be on my feet again. Useless 2nd attempt.

"She is trying to break free. I'm impressed. No one we ever jailed shown this much competence." He acknowledged me. It wasn't really competence at all. I was so done with lying on the floor.

Stubbornness could be the right word.

"That dream pill must've put a good fight with her insides." They both chuckled. If only I weren't tired, weak, and fragile. I would've smashed their heads into two. They're starting to get on my nerves.

After what felt like forever, I forced my eyes open. I was still seeing blurs but I was awake. Probably can't see in the next minute or so but still alive.

Once I blinked a few times and tried to focus, I can slowly start to see the room I was in.

The room reeked. I wasn't used to any other smell than flowers in the morning so it probably wasn't that bad once I got used to it. The gray walls were cracked, showing some signs of damage and vandalism. The square hole in the wall -- which I might recognized as a window --showed a whole new world. Off in the distance, the sky showed a blue and green planet with few strokes of white. It was Earth.

I pushed against the floor and caught my balance. I looked left to see two tall guards, each infused with metal. "She's awake." One of them said. He had noticeably more flesh than robot parts.