I remember looking at her face, trying to imitate her disdain through my expression, wrestling my own confusion as to why things had to get so violent, at the brink of tears i found my voice at ends with my breath. I couldn’t tell her how much i loved her, in what seems like an endless torment, i found myself trapped in a moment that never ended, bravely holding on to the belief that someday it’ll change, ever waiting for my personal ex machina. The irony being that my salvation lied the courage to break that paradigm.
“Ww..wha” mumble....groan
The handler leans over me and adjusts some settings on the display module near my head, groggily i turn my head to the device trying to make sense of the numbers and metrics fluctuating on the screen. Everything is so bright around hazy, I close my eyes and listen to the candid sounds of shuffling people and distant beeps of machines.
“How is he doing, is the harmonizer working?” a new voice speaks, a woman.
“Patient has shown 10 fold inprovement in memory consolidation, currently at 86% pyschological salience” another woman speaks, soundingly oddly familiar yet not human.
I barely open my eyes and see the figure of woman with short hair and i can’t see who she is speaking to.
“Patient is sedated and his physiological parameters normalized, expected discharge date 24th April 2077” the same feminine voice spoke this time i realized she wasn’t inside the room but maybe in some PA system
“Good” the woman replies as she looks down at the screen she is cradling in her arms. She looks over to me and smiles.
“Everything is going to be ok now Alan, we’ll have some questions to ask you but not right now.”
“Where… am i?..? Where am i?” I barely asked and I wasn’t exactly sure why i asked that either.
Her face reacts to my question and her brows perk up “Oh, Alan you’re awake, that’s good.” She pauses for a moment “You’ve been successfully treated and you’ll be ready to go home soon, i’m already organizing your immediate family to come see you”.
I feel my heart race for a moment and feel excitement, vacantly staring at her.
Smiling she walks over to a terminal and adjusts something on a screen, and i immediately feel a sense of comfort and relief enter slumber. The strange thing is, i dont even know who my immediate family is but i feel like i will remember them when i see them.
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