Stainless

Prologue

The process takes about an hour, this is a half hour stabilization process. You will be asleep for all of it. After that we will run some tests and, in a few days, you will be able to go back home. Do you understand?

I nodded. Surprisingly I could keep it all in my head. I hoped I would be able to do the same after I was put under. The map of the large facility, the medical jargon, and the people I had met in the past few hours. I had memorized and understood it all. 

I don’t know if you’re supposed to dream once they inject you with the red coloured liquid, but I did. I dreamt of home and of my mother. It was as if I was in my kitchen, surrounded by the smell of the Saturday morning cookies then I felt warm like I was enveloped in my mom’s embrace. The dream shifted to my school and my friends. I was in the back of class fooling around with my friends instead of finishing the homework that I would hate doing later on in the evening.

Hazy dreams set in. The ones before weren’t real, but they were based off of real life. These new settings were not things that I thought I had experienced. Bright hospital lights and an interrogation room. A room with cartoons on the walls, toys on the floor, and a bunch of kids about the same age playing with each other while adults watched with clipboards. An office. A large, intimidating office. I didn’t know anything more than that, everything I saw was a blur as I spun around and around on a chair behind the desk. I saw the face of a man before I woke up. It was someone that had come to me in dreams, a man that I had seen in pictures before.

I soon woke up to nurses bustling around the room, making sure that I was okay to be transferred from the hospital bed to the little apartment I had be assigned within the facility. I wanted to stay awake so that I could move myself to my adopted room but, despited having been out for the past hour, sleep overcame me. This time, I did not dream.

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Hey readers! Carmen here! This is a new story that I'm working on and am excited about. Though the first chapter is done, I'm still working out minor details. I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments if, based on the synopsis and the prologue, you would be interested in the book. As well as suggestions for names, descriptions, events, or anything else you can think of, since they're all subject to change.

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