Genesis

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She awakened like it was years-long dream she had. First thing she noticed was that light-blue colored liquid is going away down. She was standing a little bending, resting with her hands on the internal surface of her cell in which she was locked. She was breathing heavily greedily taking portions of oxygen inside of her lungs. Shell opened slowly finding an opportunity to make gap inside closed circle of its space. She made uncertain step forward leaving artificial plastic cocoon. She almost fell down slipping over white surface of floor which happened to be too smooth and making this clumsy motion she issued loud exhalation.
Intuitively, relying more to her touch than to sight, she moved across the room. She felt herself like floating inside deep smog. Items around were not clear and her thought were somehow vague. She could see things clearly, but still somehow they were not clear - not in looks, but in their meaning, in her mind. Finally she managed to get to the transparent capsule near wall. And her first short journey contained motion from one little cylindrical cell to another. Without considering she opened the hatch and entered inside. Finding almost invisible key implemented into surface she pressed it and shower started running.
Streams of warm water were embracing her body. She felt herself a little calmer and raised her face moving her palms across it. Some instants ago she leaned against transparent wall resting now with her back and palms on it.
Coming from the shower's cell she felt little cold and then she took towel which was hanging in stretch of her hand and dried her body. She felt texture of towel on her skin. More and more of new sensations arrived. She loosed her hand and rectangular piece of tissue slipped out and fell down to smooth floor. Approaching mirror she moved her palm across it and so made curved non-straight piece of reflection of room she was in and of her own face. She looked on the features of this image which she somehow recognized, but could not remember and silently whispered, almost breathed out one single syllable - 'Eve'.
She was still nude and now felt herself smooth and fresh. Near to the mirror rectangular roll was lying. She instinctively stretched to it. It was clothes. While taking them on girl noticed three symbols printed on the collar. One in center was like wedge and two more standing by its sides were three-fingered. Then equipped into blue fitting costume which felt comfortable on her body, she took on shoes which stood on the floor. Boots laced themselves up also being comfortably fitted on her feet. She went from the white room to white corridor. Every step she made made her feel surer and surer. She even could feel like recognizing the place she was in. It was like she was regaining abilities and memories which were once lost.
Reaching the hatch which served as one of enters-exits of white underground she froze and then stretched to sensor. Door opened and she came out. Making few steps she appeared to be on the edge of rocky precipice. She was looking toward the orange wilderness stretching from side to side and from her point of view to the visible border of land, under which the sun was rising. Her hair was touched by the wind and her fine thin figure was standing against the contrast of surrounding space being brightly outlined on the background of massive cliffs and endless emptiness. Sometimes flowers grow through the rocks.
And suddenly standing one to one with wilderness she felt herself lost. Her face filled with worry, uncertainty and vulnerability which are so common to human nature.
She was walking aside precipice until the precipice finally disappeared leveling with the ground of orange sands. She reached thin spinney placed on the edge of the desert and set in shadow of one of low trees leaning against its trunk.
She could not tell about exactly how much time she spent sitting this way under the green tree crown. Suddenly new sounds arrived in the air. That was something different than whisper of wind in branches and leaves. She lifted herself up and watched far. In thirty steps distance in thicker of high grass she noticed some motion. Small sound arrived from there. It was something like semi-numb low rumbling. Looking attentively she noticed couple of yellow eyes which were fixedly gazing at her from behind of green grass curtain.
She lowered herself a little, bending her knees, feeling how excited worry is embracing her. Instant later green thicker released the predator like a flame from the volcano's vent. Animal made one little jump to show itself out leaving its cover and was rushing on all fours toward her.
Almost immediately she started to run in opposite direction. Her heart was beating faster and faster filling with fear. She would like to find some shelter now. But the Shelter was left by her minutes ago. And soon she understood that hardly she will be able to go back while running for her life, running away from the merciless killer. Rocky surface, rare bushes and trees were somehow slowing its speed while it a little turned around them or jumped over, but she recognized that if she will not be able to find the place to cover and to hide, she will not survive this heat. The Horror itself was chasing after her, rushing, making roar full of animal strength and aspiration to kill. It was faster and it was stronger than her.
She turned behind cliffy corner of uplifting soil hiding her from view of the hunter now wasting all her strength to get away from it. She dived to the rich thicker behind the turn of trail and lowered herself as much as she could. She squat and then put herself down, now feeling hard soil against her abdomen, but in instant she understood that she will not be able to lift herself up to run rapidly enough from position like this and she set in squat again. She could feel her heartbeat physically and she could feel like adrenaline was streaming through her body in her veins in weird mix of multiple sharp sensations.
Predator chasing her, when reaching small site of empty space behind cliff's uplifting wall which were surrounded by the thicker, stopped and started looking by sides. Softly landing its catlike paws it unhurriedly turned its head to see, lowered its nose to smell greedily taking dry air inside. Smell was almost lost, but it felt a little of it and that was enough to remain here.
Suddenly animal froze and then lowering its front part released blades of its claws to the ground. Blonde-haired slim girl in blue fitting costume was firmly standing on her feet watching it. She stood in distance of twenty human steps. It was in distance of one predator's jerk. And now it was fixedly gazing at her, waiting. But just for couple of instants. Collecting its claws back straightening in jump, predator was dashingly approaching her in its run, lifting dust up from its paws.
And when of all distance in between of them there was only one crashing motion left girl was still standing firmly with no move done and animal supporting itself on back legs like ancient cannon ball started speedy flight in bowed line. All force of natural-born killer was ready to encounter thin figure of the girl. And finally predator's front paws reached the target and hunter collapsed down with all of its mass and pressed her to the soil of earth stabbing sharp claws, ensuring itself in its victory.