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CH 5

PRESENT

The silence was like a steady hum in my ears, peaceful but ever intimidating. I was hit with complex feelings when I gained some sort of consciousness here. Why was it so quiet, I wondered. Why wasn't I dead yet? There was a raw aching for all of this chaos to be over, for all of it to finally leave me alone and let me rest.

'Is this the end? Are you ready for it to stop now?' It rang through the dark loudly, but all the same it was completely silent. The voice was less of a voice and more of an inner feeling that was not my own.

Looking around, I found myself in the dark, laying in a never-ending puddle that was only about an inch deep. It was strangely warm. Strangely comforting. Ready for what to stop, I wondered.

'It has been so long, aren't you tired?' It said again, once more as a feeling from within myself that was not mine.

Yes, I thought. I was so tired...

'There has been so much, aren't you in pain?' it asked now.

Yes, I was in pain...

'You can meet those you lost,' it told me. 'You can see them again,'

I could?

'Let it all end, reunite with those who are forever gone. Leave this world and approach the next,' it said.

Leave? But I wasn't done here... I had to get these people back to base... I had to find where I belonged, I had to survive. To live. To really live.

'Is that what Adam wants? To create his own Eden?'

I wasn't sure what this meant. Adam? Eden? Weren't those things out of the bible? I'd never read it but I had heard many things in my time outside of the lab.

'Not biblical, only terms. Separate from the connotation which is the misgrievances of human storytelling through the ages,'

I was still confused but tried to push myself up only to find that my body was unbelievably heavy. I was forced to continue laying in the thin puddle of water.

'If the Adam wants to stay, he will need an Eve,' this felt like more of a threat than anything.

Eve? Who was that? Or what? I didn't know and I didn't want to. I wanted to sit up, to see where I was... I didn't need anyone. I got by just fine on my own.

'The Adam will die without his Eve. The Adam is already sick,'

This dream was sick. A sick joke. I struggled to get up, creating tiny little waves in the puddle that cascaded out into the darkness never too be seen again.

'What does the Adam desire? An end? An Eden? His Eve?'

To wake up. I thought. So I did.

I groggily lifted a heavy arm and wiped the dust and debris from my eyes. I blinked my eyes open to stare up at the sky. The warmth of my dream was long gone and I was left cold back in reality. What had happened? The zeds... the runners... the others... it was all foggy.

I tried to sit up, only to cringe at the pain in my chest, waist, and legs. I blinked, my breathing shallow. Calming myself, I sat up on my elbows to see what the hell was so heavy on top of me. It seemed to be a bunch of rubble. With some effort, I managed to push some off and slip out from under the rest. I then stood and looked around myself at the crumbled building.

It had fallen down right on top of me... My heart picked up its pace at the realization. Gen, Tiff, and Klien. They'd been here with mr- they had to be buried too! I started to panic, shuffling through the rubble, tossing concrete and wood aside in attempts to find them but I wasn't coming up with anything. Were they buried completely?

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