Clues - Chapter 3 - Alex/ Simon
“If you stare at the roof long enough eventually you fall into a mindless state of nothingness. Where you can make anything your reality.”
“So essentially a lucid dream.”
“No Simon, you’re still awake. What I was saying is you can make anything your reality, but only one thing at a time. Therefore, whatever happens after your wished upon event is unpredictable.”
“How predictable we talkin’?”
“Nothing that can physically harm or kill your person but I’ve died once or twice. It’s like painful sleep.”
“You feel it?!”
“Yeah, part of being awesome.”
“Maybe I should give it a shot sometime.”
Met with no response, the silence is deafening.
“Hello subject 238.”
“Mr. Oliver, sir.”
“Having a nice conversation I see. Or were having.”
“What did you do to them.”
“They’re fine. In the meantime, I brought you a new classmate. You are not, under any circumstance to talk to him. Understood?”
“Yes, sir.”
A blonde-haired boy walks with shackles around his wrists and ankles, (like most subjects do) guided towards Simon’s cage by the chain Oliver holds.
“Subject 238, sleep.”
Oliver’s eyes forcefully close and his mind is sent to the mindless state. The last thing he hears is the unlock of his cage, and for some reason, a spark of freedom still dwindles in his heart.
Only is the new guy to know that the hope he has was going to be correct in the end. Unless…
