Chapter Two- Pippa
She had counted four hundred and twenty-two people who had crossed the square below her in the past two hours. Watching the cities activity was her only form of entertainment since she arrived here.
Here.
She wasn't even sure where here was. She knew that she was in the future, that much was clear... well, as clear as that could possibly be. But where exactly was still a mystery. There were no land marks of the world she knew left behind, no stars in the night sky to orientate herself on, no wind or rain. The air was recycled, the sun on a timer and the people were brain washed zombies.
The only person she has spoken to who she somewhat liked was her doctor, everyone else had either interrogated her or silently examined her with new confounding medical technology. Whatever they had found out about her, they obviously didn't like the answers. She had been stuck in this room on her own for what felt like a year.
Her only constant was seeing Bellamy every three days, though seeing him was all she could do. They were not allowed to talk or touch. She went to sleep her first night here eager to see him again, ask him what the hell happened, what was going on, but she didn't dream. Her mind was blank until she awoke. She had not dreamt of anything since.
The whirring of machines in the distance, and scurry of people in the same coloured clothes as her doctor told her this was the hospital- or some kind of medical facility. Though she had never seen another patient or anyone who looked remotely sick either entering or leaving the place from her observation point.
Her isolation only confirmed what Bellamy had told her when she arrived after being held and interrogated by the people dressed in black- she was a danger to this place.
She must have carried pathogens and diseases from her time which the people of this time couldn't fight off, though she doubted it would take long for them to find a cure for them, or a way to rid her of them with their advances in technology and medical understanding. Not that she understood how those things really worked, the only biology knowledge at her disposal was a mediocre grade in her exams two years ago.
She just wanted to be allowed out.
Her thoughts drifted, as they had so often since she arrived, to her family and friends. What would they think had happened to her? Were they looking for her?
Her heart pulled, and she took a deep breath to stop the tears from falling. She had cried too much today already.
She eyed the two guards dressed in black as they walked across the open square below her. Her heart thumping at the memories of her confinement.
Squeezing her eyes shut, she tried to banish the images of being tied down to a table, as machines whirred around her brain, monitoring her responses to questions. The looming figures of a man dressed in black and a woman dressed in red haunting her, their eyes devoid of any love or compassion as she pleaded with them to tell her what had happened, where she was and who they were.
From the little she had been allowed to see of this place, she had summarised a lot.
The future was a dangerous place to be.
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