NOWHERE, PLAIN.
Sia really wanted to know where she was.
She felt safe with Aidan and she still didn't know why.
He had proven He was not against her.
But why would He live such an obscure life.
Who was He hiding from?
Why this underground luxury?
How did he build this?
How could he be so organized?
She had lots of questions and She was confused.
She wanted to know more about Aidan.
He was a mystery.
Then she remembered the question she had asked him that He had by-passed.
"He probably has no parents like me"
She said aloud to herself.
" How was He able to fare along so well and amass such wealth"
" Zen could never let anyone have that much"
" Too much wealth brought about too much power"
That was what Zen had said once after killing Jake, Jake pluito.
Jake was a wealthy Man.
He was developing crazy tech.
He was going to mix tech with science when He started projects planning how to copy a human genome and combine it with that of robots to build robots with genetic characteristics like humans.
Zen saw that as a threat so He had him killed.
But then, Zen saw an opportunity to create more help for himself.
So He developed Jake's concept and that's when Surrogates came into play.
Zen was guided by surrogates that looked exactly like him.
He could not be harmed easily.
He was the only Person who could not experience pain or so He thought and so everyone thought.
Everyone including Sia but after meeting Aidan.
She knew if she could get him to their side, Zen would be in big trouble.
She suddenly remembered Jay and Leah and Aimèè.
How was she going to communicate with them.
Her backpack was still with her.
The bag Leah had given her.
She wondered how long she was going to be in this place.
Below the plain lands of wherever.
She thought of what to do.
She remembered she hadn't showered in a long time.
Actually just a few hours.
She decided to go take a shower.
Luckily, there was a shower pod only it was made of translucent wine colored Glasses and the controls were a bit different but nothing that she could not handle.
She got out of shower.
Found a set of toothbrush and wore it on.
In less than 15 seconds, Her teeth were clean.
She disengaged the toothbrush.
She found some cloth in the wardrobe but they were mainly hoods.
" Boys"
She exclaimed as she took out the sprinkle hood and wore it on.
She also found the sprinkle joggers but she saw the fire joggers and wore it on.
Water on fire was nice.
The idea behind the sprinkle hoodies really was nice.
It consisted of water drops that fell in a crystal like manner and it wasn't exactly cloth material.
It was the era where tech was everything.
So the drops were held together by strong convalent bonds because the bonds were made of diamond.
Then the value of money and jewelry reduced because people could easily create whatever they needed with the 3D printers and models.
People could create artificial diamond by subjecting graphite to very high temperature in the presence of catalysts like nickel.
The 'Fire' joggers were made of living pieces that actually looked like fire, raving fire ready to devour but when Sia had the clothes mixed.
It looked amazing.
She wanted to rest but suddenly felt hungry.
The clothes ,She reasoned ment Aidan had contact with the outside world.
She wondered how He had gone unnoticed for years.
Zen had found out about the revolution, so how come He had no idea about this dude.
She wondered .
But then her tummy rumbled.
She was hungry.
She had not eaten for a long time .
A day and half to precise.
She opened her bag and took out the Mealers.
Mealers were tablets or powdery substance that people ate to replace food.
It combined all the nutrients in the right proportion and was natural since agriculture especially the aspect of farming was quite a rare phenomenon.
They were no more restaurants.
People got whatever they needed delivered to them or sent robots and mostly surrogates ran about their daily businesses for them.
There are also Immerse foods, you placed the crackers or pills on the arm on the Immerse spot and It is dissolved into the body to absorb the nutrients for its use.
This was the Norm of the society.
" Have to get something to eat"
Sia said to herself.
She remembered Aidan telling her not to explore .
She thought about it but then she was carefree.
" He has no right to tell me what to do even if it's his house"
" If I get lost, I'll definitely get found"
" Not like this place is some sort of village"
She grumbled as she opened the door.
She felt guilty and she wondered why.
She realised that She had been walking
on her tiptoes .
Was she scared that someone would see her?
"She had better minded her business"
She thought to herself
But her business was 'Hunger'.
The Mealers did nothing for her hunger.
She walked into the elevator.
The elevator was like looking in a glass mirror.
The glass was tinted blue.
Aidan did really have a thing with colors.
The place was all white like some Immunity patient lived there.
NOWHERE was like a small villa to Sia.
Aidan must have more with this place than one could imagine.
Sia thought.
Sia could have sworn she heard whispers as She passed in another hall way.
Maybe it was because she was tired .
Hs really needed some sleep.
The kitchen seemed to be a long way from where she was and she wasn't sure if she could make it to the kitchen or if she would make it to the kitchen considering how big NOWHERE is.
She wondered why someone would name a residential place NOWHERE .
She felt Aidan was a mystery.
He was like broken pieces of a puzzle and to solve the puzzle .
She had to put the pieces together.
Well she was tired and needed to sleep.
She felt her eyes get heavy and her head was spinning .
She really needed to sleep.
She was starting to feel dizzy.
She pushed the doors to one of the room open.
" I could really use a bed from anywhere"
" Aidan"
She called out to no one.
" I'm sorry but I really need to sleep and I hope you don't take this the wrong way or too personal but sleep is inevitable"
She fell to the bed and enjoyed a sound sleep.
" Hey!
" Hey!
She heard a bass baritone.
" Hey !
" Who the hell is this?
Sia felt someone jerk her .
She slowly opened her eyes.
" What's on?"
She asked lazy and tired.
" You"
Was the response.
" Huh?"
" You're on my bed"
The statement did not click immediately.
" No I'm not"
" Yes you are"
" You're probably the girl Aidan brought but you're in the wrong room and in the wrong bed"
" Okay"
She didn't know what to say.
" I want to use my bed"
He was saying to her.
" Before dinner"
" Sorry"
She said standing up .
" But I have one big problem"
She told him.
" Which is?"
He asked back.
" I can't find my way back to my room"
" I really can't help you"
He told her jumping to the bed.
The bed began to float.
It was a hologram of a bed, a floating bed.
This was new to her.
" Why's your bed floating"
" I want it that way"
He told her.
" Why?"
" Why what?"
" Why can't you help me find my room"
" I don't know what room Aid had you in"
" It's white"
" Seriously ,all the rooms are white"
He told her fiddling with a VR headset.
" It has a tap"
" I guess not all rooms should have that"
She told her.
" Well, sorry all rooms do have that"
" So how am I goanna find my room"
" You should probably stay on here till dinner time"
Sia signed.
She sat on the bed and looked on.
" Seriously, what am I going to do till dinner time"
" I don't know "
" The fridge is over there"
He said with gestures.
" If you need anything to eat"
She stood up.
" Sure do"
She walked over to the fridge, picked up some snacks and walked back to a couch.
It was a fluid fridge.
It was also one of the tech of the future.
Food and whatever was put in the fridge with green semi-fluid like gel which uses less energy and natural energy to preserve and keep it frozen as desired.
She sat and crossed a leg.
" Wow, it tastes so good"
" How'd you guys get these stuffs"
" Aidan gets them all by himself"
" And sometimes ,a few others help him"
" A few others ?"
She exclaimed out loud.
" How many of you are there?"
" You'll know soon"
He said and laughed.
" I'm Sia"
" I'm Arlen"
" Nice name"
She told him, flashing him a smile.
" Thanks"
He returned the smile.
" Hey"
He called out to her after some silence
" Yep"
" Come on"
He said showing her the VR headset.
" You know how to play"
" Sure"
She said and walked over to the game's corner.
She took the headset and looked it through.
" Mind controllers?"
She asked.
He nodded.
" I'm in"
She wore it on, He wore his.
" Let the game begin"
She said.
" And may the best thinker win"
He said.
" The best thinker will win"
She said.
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
" Can you locate her?"
" No"
" Why?"
" I'm not able to get to her gadgets"
" You said we would be able to communicate with her"
" It was that reason I let go"
" Its not my fault, Jay"
" Something is interfering with the signals"
" I can't get through to her"
" Do you think She's in some kind of danger"
" No"
Jay was agitated.
" How can you be so sure?"
" She's okay, Jay"
" Stop the pressure"
" It's driving me mad"
Leah told him .
" I'm sorry"
" I'm just concerned"
" I know"
" But there's really nothing much I can do from here"
Aimèè who had been on the counter came over.
" There's really nothing much that can be done,Jay"
" We just have to hope She's fine"
She sat patting Jay on the back.
Jay realized that they were right.
There was really nothing much they could do .
They had to focus on their mission and then they could defeat Zen .
If they defeated Zen ,they wouldn't have to hide any longer and then He could get back with Sia.
" It is going to be a long long wait"
He said to himself.
He sighed and got back to work.
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
" Yes!!!
Sia exclaimed putting off her headset.
" Yon won me"
" Yes"
" Seriously, you won me"
" Is that supposed to be a big deal"
" Yes"
" I'm the best gamer over here"
" Whatever I think happens"
"What's that tingling sound"
Sia said .
She heard some dangling and tickling.
" Alarm"
" It's time for dinner"
Arlen grabbed a jacket and wore it on.
" Come on"
He said to her.
" Time to meet the others"