The snow, buried the past, buried the future
Dot woke up with a start. That was a clap of thunder outside the dormitory. He had just dreamed that he was walking in the snow, holding a knife dripping with blood. A dying man lied on the ground behind him, with a mess of blood coming out. On his right arm, he wore a silver armband with some sort of intricate pattern.
"I killed a silverpacker in my dream..." thought Dot."But I don't even know why I did that, I just did it, for no reason.Maybe because he was a silverpacker."
Dot looked outside the window, it was still snowing. Wind mixed with snow drifted in through the cracks in the incomplete window,and the whole room is taken over by the cold.
The harder the conditions were, the more he could not help imagining the so-called outside world that the man he had met the day before had painted for him.Outside, he said, there is no dormitory, no packers. Almost everyone, except the officials, is equal. You can go everywhere you want to go without any limit and surveillance.
Thinking of this, he could not help recalling the scene when he met the man yesterday.
Just yesterday, when Dot took the meal, and was going to have a seat, a man sat down next to him.
"Dot"he said, as soon as they sat down. "Is that the name?"
Dot looked up. It was a slightly brown face with a beard that was uneven from the use of an inferior razor. His hair was also messy like a tangle in a piece of twine. Looking at his face, There was something familiar about his face.
"Please allow me to introduce myself to you." The man continued."firstly, my name is Acho, of course, that's not my original name." There he stopped, and smiled at Dot, as if had anticipated the surprise of Dot.
Not unexpectedly, Dot immediately asked:"What do you mean?so you meant you've got other name?no, that's impossible."
Acho helped himself to a little cabbage and continued:"Nothing is impossible,in my opinion, in this world, impossible itself is impossible."
"Too many things obviously possible are considered unreasonable, in fact, such thoughts are the most unreasonable." Acho added. "Soon you'll know that this place is also the impossible."
"Wait, why do you told me that?To share your crazy ideas and show me you're a madman?"Dot asked.
"Don't you feel strange about the world that you're living? for example, who you working for, or what is there in the outside world, or where do packers receive education."Acho smiled and stared at him,said.
"Holy crap, you said so much that as if you had ever lived in the so-called outside world in the past, but do you have any proof to prove yourself?"Dot quevied.
"nope, I have no proof."Acho replied firmly."But, I will take you out of there tomorrow.Soon you will know the truth."
Then he stood up and took his dishes away.