last night I couldn't sleep at all, the most my eyes could be together was 5 minutes before I gave up and rised from what usually could be one of the comfiest beds to ever exist in the history of the world, feeling not a single bit of rest in my body I just start walking in the middle of the night looking for something to do, I suddenly remember the unexpectedly and inexperienced put together arm attached to my body, the connection to my torso is not part of my body so I can't just absorb it back again from that same spot, I need to use my other arm to absorb the metal from the prosthetic so I can deploy it again.
It took me 5 years of trial and error for me to finally get the rebuilding process right, quite a long time to be without a whole arm, although it was quite fun to be running as a child with some tweezers for a hand, and quite scary for anyone else who wasn't me.
Yeah I can tell why nobody wanted to talk to me
With a swiping movement of my left hand I make my arm disappear going from the hand to the shoulder. then in the same motion I make it appear once more, but this time actually making it functional. the elbow joint works fine, so does the hand, I fixed this poor piece of garbage someone who I'm still not sure who it is made. there's a mystery in my hands now, and the only solution to that mystery lies in my job, job I can't access right now since it's still 3 am in the morning...
I want to sleep...
I snap out of my puzzle solving session as I finally hear the call of my alarm clock that sits in my desk, usually what I would consider one of the most annoying moments of the day suddenly turned into a miracle sound that awakens a sizable quantity of dopamine in my brain, truly a remarkable change on pace.
After I take a bath I take the phone and the paper Alan gave me when I left the facility yesterday. when I finish taping the numbers on the pad and press the magic button a dreadful tune makes me wait to see if im still in a job I regret being in the first place, and as a minute pases the tune finally stops and meets me with Alan
-Hello?
-Hey Alan it's me, Cecile
-Oh hey Cecile how's it going, didn't expect you to call so soon
-Soon?
-Its only 5 in the morning you know?
-Wait for real? oh I'm sorry I forgot my alarm was still set for my job at the hospital, my bad
-Its ok don't worry, and since you seem to be so eager to call at this time already. why don't you come already?
-I am... yeah sure I don't have anything else to do so can you call the other idiot so he can open the portal?
-wow, you sound irritated, you sure everything is alright?
- I just... had a bad night, but I'm ok, kinda stressed that's all
- if you're not feeling ok you can just skip the day you now, no need to force yourself on this. I can take this one and I'll watch over Faraday
- no no, I swear I'm fine, also I need to talk with her so I really need to go
-well, if you say so, portal will be up any second now, you ready?
-yeah I'm ready
-cool, I'll see you at work.
and with that the call ends and I'm left alone in the hall of my house, only being illuminated by the rising sun coming from my back window. as i rub my eyes to try and reduce the burning sensation on them a flashing purple portal appears in my face, blinding me, and increasing the pain even more.
I hate this guy a lot
walking in from the blinding purple light I arrive to the even more blinding light of the white hallway that is only stopped by 2 black dressed guards that become a sudden miracle to my eyesight. after the usual inspection I meet Alan in the other side of the guard post.
-you look.... surprisingly good actually. I thought you had a rough night
-i did, my eyes burn
-oh geez let me adjust the lights a bit
Alan steps into the camera post where he now works and I see him adjusting a dial and as he moves the dial, the lights go more and more dim. reaching a point where I could actually open my eyes without the feeling like I have ants on them. I should have brought some eye drops now that I think about it.
-thanks lot, that really helps
-you're welcome mate. the room should be ready by now, you can enter
-ok, I'll see you later Alan
-byyye
the usual path feels a lot less disturbing with each time I past through it, the screams sound way less, the evil aura goes less and less threatening, mostly because I remember that at the end of this hall the only thing that awaits me is some goofy little kid that most likely doesn't even know what a pizza is.
as I reach the giant door, a noticeable change comes to my attention, a hand recognition pad was installed near the door and near the communication pad. as I take a good look on it the sound of steps coming towards me alerts me to turn around, and when I do, I see Alan running like a maniac towards me, I fear my inevitable dead, again, but the only thing that happens is that i realize Alan is quite a forgetful person.
-YO Cecile wait - says between a handful of heavy respirations and coughs - I forgot to tell you....aaah geez why is this hall so long.
-I don't know, you guys were the one who made it that way
- yeah but because we expected more... you know forget it. anyway, that pad right there -he points at it- we installed it yesterday when you left, and I kinda forgot to tell you about it... oops
we haven't recorded a print on it because... well you left, but we can do it right now so can you kindly ?
-right sure
Alan presses 3 buttons in a sequence and the yellow grid turns blue.
-go ahead, put the whole palm and fingers in there oh and... the human one, you know
when I put my hand on it, I can see a scanning line passing over my whole hand, same with a small burning sensation wherever that line is touching, it's not only saving my finger print, it's most likely also saving some kind of DNA sample. I suppose there must exist someone that can mimic such things as a hand print so they have to be sure about this security thing. also knowing what's behind this door I can see their point even more. an easily manipulated girl with the power of a god. I would come here to steal things too if that was my reward.
-oook it's done, now you can open the door with your hand. also we installed one too near the door of faraday. you can open it with that one too now, since it's quite more quick you know.
-oh thanks a lot Alan, anything else you're most likely forgetting right now?
- I.....no... I think, anyway if anything happens I'll just call you in the room's microphone. see ya!
Alan then leaves, and I can see the disappointment in his shoulders as he turns and sees the hallway he inevitably has to walk through again, I feel kinda pity for him.
ignoring the tingling in my hand I put it on the pad again, this time it works and It let's me in, the room looks nothing like it did yesterday, now the chair was replaced and the table was changed for a wooden one, this looks more like the office of an artist, I can see plenty of books, mostly science and physics. near the table a big metal container that has more containers inside it, most of them filled with samples of metal and alloys, I can see where this is going.
they rebuild the place to suit my work more... I kinda feel happy about it, I feel like it's Christmas and I'm a kid again... quite nostalgic.
but, where is my partner?
looking at the window, the curtain is down again.
how do I open it? there are no more buttons now.
Alan forgot AGAIN to tell me about all of this. I don't know how the cell works anymore, I can see the hand pad near the door but there is nothing else to work around...
while inspecting the window frame I come across a button in the bottom right corner, and near it there is another 3 right next to each other. when I press the first one the curtain starts moving. with it, the blinging white light that I remember perfectly from yesterday comes once again.
from this moment I notice the windows is set to one way again. in the other side I see a dim blue light coming from below the sheets of the bed. and moving bulge is hiding beneath those sheets, I clearly know it's Faraday.
pressing the other button next to the first one changes the one way mode and clears the window .
I knock on the window so I can get the attention of faraday. after I hit it 3 times the bulge comes falling down from the bed and hits her head. an audible pain groan can be heard, and the bulge starts moving again, this time trying to scape its silky prison so she can see the light again, when she finally gets her hair out of that grey sheet, her hair wiggles for a bit and more of those blue hairs go outside, her hair looks wavy and disorganized.
it looks quite good in that style may I add.
when she leaves her shelter she is facing the wrong direction, but quickly turns around to face the window, when she sees me, her hair shines brightly, and a big "!" appears on top of her head, at the same time, a big smile gets carved into her face, combined with her open mouth full of surprise, this is quite a poster.
-MS CECILEEEEEEE!!!
she screams as she disappears and then appears again in front of the window
-MS Cecile you came back!!
-yeah I told you I would. I said I only needed some rest
-im so happy I thought you started to hate me!
-what?.. no, no it was just an accident. also apparently Alan helped me repair the hand, still, I had to rebuild it anyway because he didn't do it right.
-alan did that?
-yeah, he must have some kind of magnetic powers
-he does?! he never told me about having powers too... I mean... he didn't even tell me he was a person.
- yeah he likes to keep his secrets huh? I'll talk with hit about it later. for now. let's continue our work
-you want to keep going?
-we NEED to keep going, this is my job and I need money
- so this is your only job?
-yes I had a job before but... hold on, how can you know what money and economy without knowing what a human was before?
-oh, the videos I saw before that taught me about stuff always told me that these could be things I could make if there were other people with me. they always told me I was alone, but If someday I happens to find someone else I could do all of those things with them.
- so they even changed your education didn't they?
- I think so... by the way Ms cecile, are you alright?
-hmm? do I look sick or something?
-no you look... less happy today, are you sure you're not mad at me?
-i'm not faraday, stop asking about it
-oh... I'm sorry - like a sad scolded dog she says.
-im sorry it's just... I'm tired and I couldn't sleep yesterday, maybe today I'll be able to sleep. but I'm ok I swear.
- if you say so, but you really look gloomy right now
-do I?
- oh oh but y-you still look as beautiful as before
-right.... thanks faraday (?)
that was weirdly out of place but ok
-anyway let's get back to work, so... the tungsten alloy CLEARLY didn't work. but Alan gave me a list of materials we can try once or twice. my theory is that your lightnings are not electricity on its own but some kind of magic alteration. since there is. no way a lightning can't be that powerful, and you didn't use your whole power isn't it?
- not really, I just used a little bolt.
-so you can really go beyond that?
- I think so?... I never used more than that, but I feel it wasn't any kind of effort to do that you know?
-hmm.... these aren't precisely good news you know.
-how so?
-if this is the minimum there's no way we can reach a containment for the maximum
-containment?
oh shit
- uh sorry I was thinking of something else. anyway, as I said, this is most likely not electricity, so we can still try some things. we have resources now, there is no need to give up. that being said, we can't really experiment a lot without knowing your limit. and we can't see your potential without a material to work with...
-i think we reached a dead end Ms Cecile...
-i.... yeah we did... this facility won't do, and the problem is we can't leave. I'll talk about this with Alan when I'm done, on the meantime let's tests other things, just so we don't lose the day.
-sounds good, what should we test?
- no idea, I guess your teleportation is next on the list
-teleportation?
-yes, the thing you do where you disappear and appear in another place
- I.... I can't do that
-what do you mean you can't do that, I've seen you do it multiple times
-i can't teleport... I just run
-there is absolutely no way what your saying is correct, are you sure you just don't realize when you do it?
-im pretty sure I can't do that, you haven't seen me run?
-no, as I said I only see a flash.
-wanna see me do it again so you can see?
-and how I'm I supposed to... wait, the camera that's right
-oh the camera from yesterday.
-yes, that one, let me see if I can find it.
stumbling upon the big container I see a specialized zone dedicated to technology, beneath a tomb of cables and what I can assume to be the dismounted control panel of the previous table, I find the camera, dismounted from the tripod, if I'm lucky I could see the recording from yesterday.
Faraday backs up from the window and goes to sit on her bed, she is most likely waiting for me, I'll need to leave her waiting for now.
the camera didn't have any Battery, I forgot to turn it off when I left yesterday, my bad.
after I plug it to the socket on the wall the camera turns up again, the UI looks, again, oddly advanced. once I figure out where the gallery was. I see the video of the recording from yesterday.
the moment I get hit by the lightning bolt, faraday transforms into a blurry blue shade, her movements are barely noticeable by the camera, but I can clearly see lightning coming from her back.... no.... GOING to her back.
before I can process the information, faraday starts moving towards me, I can barely see her movement but I can clearly see that my arm starts rebuilding itself, at the same time, the lightnings in faraday's back start to speed up to level that even glitched the camera.
Alan didn't reconstruct my arm, it was faraday.
this speed... this is.... impossible, this camera is made to record at the speed of light, but even then it's having trouble following faraday's movements.
she really is not teleporting, she is just moving so fast we can't see her?
this just gives me more questions, how can she do that? is there a limit on speed or duration? why did the lightning come towar-
-ms Cecile?
-AAH - I scream and I hit my head on the table I was under to see the video. - faraday sorry what's wrong?
-did you find the camera? it's been 10 minutes and im kinda bored
-oh y-yeah I found it, I was just trying to figure out how to make it work, I'll be there in a second
this is... utterly FANTASTIC, this goes beyond my expectations, faraday is truly amazing. that is is the power of a god right there!!
and I need... I need to contain that god, this is my duty, I can't just go praising my objective.
but I can't just ignore the fact that this girl is really something else.
maybe... if I make her my friend...
I'm quite pumped up hahaha.
I rush out to the door of the cell, surprising faraday on the process, after I start the opening sequence I go inside the cell
-yo, faraday I know what we can test right now!
- M-ms Cecile you suddenly look really happy, what happened? - she says with a worried face
-oh nothing of importance, I'm just.... I'm just happy to be working with you that's all
-huh?
faraday's face becomes red as a strawberry. and her face becomes quite... cute
-y-you do? - says while she fidgets her fingers
-uh... yeah?
faraday seems to have some weird reactions whenever I speak to her on a personal level, I assume it has to do with her not being used to social relationships. maybe I can try and help her with that. but for now, we have work to do.
-so, faraday, whenever you run do you feel something in your body?
-w-what do you mean?
-like... pain? or you know, something?
-i still don't know what you mean Ms cecile
should I just tell her about me knowing? I really don't see why that could be a problem.
-i saw the video from yesterday, I know you fixed my arm.
- I thought Alan fixed it(?)
- uh... no ... you did
-i only put it together but I didn't really fix it I think
-its uh... (geez) I mean the same thing faraday
-oh... sorry
-anyway, I saw you moving really fast, and I saw the lighting coming to your back, don't you feel that?
-oh that... yeah that is how I move fast, I just push myself with those, like this, look.
faraday rises her arm a little and a little scar appears on her forearm as a lightning appears from the wound and hit her in the hand, making her whole arm go at an outstanding speed towards the right. the point where the lightning impacted was briefly marked by a scar, and it wasn't a superficial wound, but at least a 2nd degree burn.
-see, it's quite fast
-hmm
-ms Cecile?
I grab faraday's hand, provoking a noticeable reaction on her, I try to ignore it a focus my attention on the wound that appeared on her hand, the one that is healing in mere seconds, very little sparks appear around the wound area as it closes, almost as if they're repairing the damaged tissue by filing it with energy
-this... doesn't hurt?
the fact that I didn't receive an answer immediately made me turn to check out on her, to see what was wrong, faraday's face turned red one more, looking with a surprised gaze into my eyes, her hand was shaking and I could even feel her pulse from the tips of her fingers.
-faraday, wake up
- uh huh s-sorry ms cecile I'm really sorry - she says as she pulls her arm from me and backs up a bit - I'm not really feeling well right now s-so can you please leave for today?
-huh... yeah sure thing, I'll be back tomorrow.
weird.
I'm gonna go home, I'm really sick, I hope I'll sleep today
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September 8
I don't know what is going oooon. I'm really weird when I'm Close to miss Cecile , I feel really weird when I see her face and I don't want to stop doing it.
I think there is something wrong with me
today I felt really happy when I saw her coming back and she told me she wasn't mad at me, but when she entered the room I started to feel really nervous. when she got Close and held my hand I felt really excited, but I also felt really ashamed of her touching my hand. and when I tried to tell her that I didn't feel good I looked at her face and she was really beautiful. my heart skipped a beat and I thought I was having a heart attack. I really don't know what I happening to me, it only happens with Ms cecile and not with Alan. diary please tell me what to do ( ;∀;)
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-faraday, is everything alright?
-noooo - says a sad faraday that has her face buried on her pillow
-hmm? what's wrong darling? did Cecile do something to you?
-no she didn't... I'm the problem
-well, what kind of problem
-idunoo... I feel weird when I'm with miss Cecile. I can't look her in the eyes and when she gets close I feel even weirder than before... I think I'm sick with something
- pfft sick?
- maybe I'm allergic to miss Cecile.... *GAAASP* THATS IT! I'm just allergic to her, but if I just stay away we can talk like we normally do right?!
- pfft HAHAHAHAHA
-hey what are you laughing about?- says faraday while pouting.
- hahaha...ha... oh faraday I've never thought I would live to see you reach this moment in your life
-what are you talking about?
- faraday, my dear, you're in love.
- L-love?! no I can't be in love, with who can I be in love?!
-cecile
faraday's face turns red for like the third time this chapter
-there is no way, miss Cecile is just a friend!
-oh that is clearly what she thinks of you, but are you really sure that is how you look at her yourself?
- I....I...
-faraday, there is no shame in loving someone
- I just don't know about that stuff, they didn't teach me about that.... I don't think it's love or anything like that really...
-oh, you think?, well, tell me what do you think of miss Cecile.
-she is really beautiful and tall. I like seeing her, and when I see her I get happy, but I feel ashamed as well whenever I get close to her. I told her to go away today but I started to feel really sad when she left. I don't want to see her leave.
-hmmm
-what
-it really does seem you like her, dear. but I feel like this feelings are coming too soon on your relationship. don't get me wrong, love at first sight exists, but you already feel like you have known her for quite a long time.
-i don't really know her... but I want to...
- you do?
- I want her to tell me about her life outside, what does she like to eat and what I her favorite color. I want know her daily life... I want to know if she thinks I'm pretty...
-oh, we are reaching something
- I want to... I want to hug her one day
- oh dearie come here
Alan hugs a teary faraday to try and calm her down. giving her the comfort she needs the most in this moment.
-what do you think I should do?...
- I'd say it's best for you to not tell miss Cecile. telling her that you like her like that may come as a shock being this early in your interactions. I know you love her, but you two have only met twice by know.
- yeah... I know
- trust me, I know this will end good for you honey, don't give up, and wait for the right moment to strike, once it's done, you two can become one hell of a good pair. - says Alan with a smile shining bright as a thousand Suns. giving back the confidence and happiness to faraday once more
-thanks Mr wall - says faraday as she grips tighter into Alan
- hehe, I like it when you call me that