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Chapter 3 - Behind The Window

I freeze at the sight of the sudden visitor and it seems to be big one. It almost blocked my entire view, I could only see my sides and above its head. Our eyes meet, and for a moment we gazed at each other. It had two eyes, but its eyes were not identical. Its right eye is horizontally oval shape, its red with black Iris. His left eye was a square red light. Unlike its right counterpart, that eye seems to be a machine, with multiple circular black lenses constantly expanding and retracting. Neither of its eyes had brows.

I noticed its gaze began to move up and down, as if it was analyzing me. I took this opportunity to analyze it back. It's head's size seems to be twice as big as mine, It has no hair, although all of its upper left face seemed to be a machine. Rainbow color lights blinking on the left portion of its head, and its skin reflects the green light like a metal would. Its left ear looked like a round receiver, with white light spinning around on its base. Other than that area of its head, the rest of its face seemed to be flesh, organic.

Its right ear look like oval shape on the top with loose ear lobe with a sharp point on the bottom, and it's huge too. The length from his ear lope to his upper portion seemed to be as tall as its face, and wide as half of its face. Its nose is wide, and longer, with a sharp hook on the top of its nose. Its mouth is wide, from one end of the face to the other, with thick lips. From his bottom jaw, two pointy teeth seemed to stick out of its mouth, about an inch tall and half inch length on its root.

I can't tell if it's because of the light or if it is it's actual skin tone, but it seem to be dark green. I am certain that I am not its kind either, though it didn't look like it was the same as the beings from that room before. By the time I finished analyzing its face, or rather his face, his attention is already on a tablet of some sort, which he is holding. The tablet looked like a screen that could disappear any moment. It's transparent, and I can see right through it.

He seems to wear some form of a suit, an armored suit. The right arm that is holding the tablet; isn't cover by the suit. It doesn't need to, because the entire arm seems to be robotic. Full metallic arm with a hint of wires and gadgets inside it. Its body structure seemed similar to mine, except he seemed to have a wider tone of muscles judging by how heavy that armor looks. Despite of its heavy look, he seemed to float weightlessly in the air.

I notice beams kept coming out of distinct parts of his suit, from the back of his legs, sides of his hips and shoulders, keeping him balanced. At one point however, he end up floating away, so he quickly grab one of the handle on my capsule's door, re-balance himself and went back typing on his tablet.

I wonder, why is he here? Is it because I am now awake? Is he going to hurt me? Put me back to sleep? Or is he simply ruining a routine check? Judging by how he had reacted, I don't think he expected to be awake, and looking around like a little mole trying to navigate under ground. I find him intimidating, scary even! However; despite his scary appearance, he doesn't seem to be hostile; he has a very calm demeanor.

After he finishes typing on his pad. He looks back at me. I still had my right hand on the glass, and to my surprise, he softly placed his left hand on the other side of the glass where my hand is. Though he has a much larger hand than mine, he had three fingers and a thumb. Verse mine is much smaller and slimmer with four fingers and a thumb. That confirms that I'm definitely and obviously not his kind! What is he trying to do? His face didn't particularly show any change nor expression. From behind his head, two flying objects appeared.

The two flying objects are probably the size of my head, they are globe shape, with two circular ring-shape wing on its sides, opposite from each other. In the front center of the objects, they had a circular blue light. They both tilt down and up as if they're analyzing me. The strange creature turn his head to one of them a bit, without looking away from me, and I see his jaws and mouth are moving, he is speaking to the objects.

Suddenly That object give of a ray of blue light. The ray kept going up and down, scanning my body, and the other one joined soon after. While the flying objects were scanning me, the visitor slowly pushed himself away and move up. Once he's gone, I had the full view again. Then I see swarms of the same flying objects moving up, some in a pair, and other in a group of four. They were scanning each and everyone of the capsules, and they were moving fast.

Some hover over the capsules longer than the others, while some didn't even slow down while moving up. Among the swarms, I notice that there are bigger objects that are moving up with them. I couldn't see what they are or who they are; however, their body shapes are similar to the visitor that was here. Some of them are slimmer than our visitor.

The two objects in front of me are particularly scanning me carefully, they are hovering in front of my capsule longer than any other objects. One of them hovers up in front of my face while the other continues to scan my body. The one that is scanning my body slows down on some areas, as if checking for something specific, then after a few moments it move on to the next area.

The one that is in front of me, I notice that it keeps tipping its wings up and downwards hastily, while tilting its self left and right. Is it trying to communicate? Is it testing how I would react? I tilt my head and took my hand off from the glass and wave at it. The object stop's its maneuver and shows rainbow colors from its lens, and then it started blinking in green.

The other object seemed to have finished its scanning and came hovering next to its partner. Then after a few moments it just went up and away, leaving its pair behind. The object that is staying in front of me stopped blinking, and is now just hovering there, doing nothing.

At this moment, I no longer see any other objects that looked like the visitor going up, and the flying objects are slowing down and are getting organized. Now there is one of those flying object in front of each capsule, stationed like the one in front of me. A few minutes passed, and it seemed everyone of those objects have gotten to position, for there are no sign of any movement. Suddenly, the lights under the capsules turns on, it's bright white!

The sudden light hurt my eyes a bit, but after a moment I got accustomed to it. It isn't as bad as the light from the room before, perhaps the liquid that filled my capsule helped too. My capsule isn't the only one that's turning on, its also every other capsules. The area generally seem to be lighting up. Then I hear a pumping noise, and I hear a draining noise. I felt the bubbles hitting bottom of my feet then making their way up to the surface. On the outside, steams came out of every capsule, including mine, and in quick seconds, the steam covers the glass, completely rendering my view!

My feet eventually touch the floor of the capsule and the liquid level is on my face and it's going down at a fast rate. When the liquid got down to my neck; I feel I am gasping for air, sucking any left over air from within the mask which it no longer provides. I take off the mask, and I take a deep breath. It seems the liquid is being replaced by air.

Eventually every drop of the liquid got drained, and a hot wind blew from above, pushing any remaining liquid left behind. It isn't too hot, but it is warm. It felt nice. For a moment I wonder if my kind like warm wind or is it just me? Or perhaps it's something from my past I can't remember. After approximate 10 minutes the wind stops, and I hear a loud click sound from the capsule's door. The window suddenly evaporated from its center. There was no longer any form of barrier between me and outside of the capsule.

*To Be Continued*