Chapter 1

BEEP BEEP….. That is the sound Elera wakes up to. Darkness covers her entire vision. It pressed her from all sides. 

BEEP BEEP….. That is the sound Elera wakes up to. Darkness covers her entire vision. It pressed her from all sides. 

The darkness Elara feels is just about the absence of light; it feels heavy, suffocating even. It felt as if it had weight, and it filled her entire body. 

Her lungs, throat, and chest feel the weight. Her body reacts before her mind can. Elara gasps violently, hoping to breathe in air, but no air follows. She feels her chest being restrained, her ribs tightening painfully as she tries to gasp for air. 

Elera tries to move her, but she only feels her fingers twitch weakly, as if they don't belong to her. Her limbs feel distant as she tries to move them again, but they are unresponsive, as if the body is not hers. Elara once again tries to breathe, but she only feels her throat burning. 

Elera tries again, this time her body reacting on instinct, air rushed suddenly into her body. It hit her lungs too fast; it was too cold, also. The air feels very sharp. She tries to cough it up, but she can barely do that. The sound could barely escape her dry and broken lips. Her chest rose unevenly, and the air felt like a foreign substance that was not supposed to be there. 

It hurts like hell, Elera feels all the hurt. Her body was trembling from the pain. She feels all the strains in her body. Her muscles are stiff and not still responsive. It is as if her body has been in a position for too long, so that even breathing has become something her body has forgotten about.  

Elera’s eyelids flutter; they feel too heavy to open. She takes a lot of effort to force her eyes open. The light was something she didn’t prepare for; it came flooding into her eyes, and it was blinding. Elera flinched immediately. 

She closes her eyes instinctively and opens them slowly, this time she tries to open her eyes gradually. The light was still too bright. She tries to adjust her eyes and focus on something. Her vision remains disoriented and distorted. Like she was looking at images from underneath water. 

Elera hears a faint ringing, although it doesn’t sound like that,t the more she tries to adjust her hearing. The sound went from sounding like a ringing to a rhythm. It sounded like a beeping sound. Machine beeping. 

Elera tries to adjust her eyesight. She shifts her gaze around the room, and he starts seeing shadows and then lines which become shapes. She sees machines, a lot of them. They are everywhere. These are machines she has never seen before. They look tall with glowing panels. 

These machines are tall, and the panels are glowing. Elera sees wires, a lot of them, across her field of vision. They spread out, connected to different machines, and some connected to her. 

Elera was confused. This doesn’t feel right at all. Nothing about what is happening feels right. Elera’s breathing hitched again. She tries to move her body. Even if it is just her fingers or even her hand. But none responded to her. 

Elera begins to feel afraid about what is happening. A faint sound escapes her throat. Her heart begins to pound against her chest. Her heart is beating faster now. The beeping sound shifted. The rhythm becomes sharper and more urgent. 

BEEP………… it kept echoing through the space around her. Elera feels so afraid because she doesn’t know what is going on. She looks around her, trying to search for something. One question keeps ringing in her mind.

“Where am I?” “The last thing I remembered was….” the thought slips from her again. She knows there was something, something she had to remember. Her chest tightens again, she struggles to breathe, and every breath she takes is another struggle for survival for her. 

Elera hears another sound, it was footsteps, it was distant at first, but it kept getting closer. Then she heard the voices, it sounded muffled and urgent. Elera tries to calm herself down and stay still. Her body didn't even respond to that. She tries to latch on to the noise. 

The voice keeps drawing closer to the room she is in. Elera noticed the voices sounded tense and panicked. 

“It's impossible, how can she be awake now, it's been years….” The voices turn to images as they enter the room and move closer to her. She sees them, people dressed in white. They rushed towards the machine, and some ran to her. 

One of the people who ran to check up on her moved close to her. The person didn't have relief, but fear in their eyes. To Elera, why are they afraid of her being awake? The thought has barely settled in her when another voice cuts through the chaos that is happening in the room. “ Her vitals are rising; we need to stabilize them now!” 

The machines she was attached to responded immediately. Something cold brushes through her body. She feels another sensation on her neck. Elera flinches. Elera hears a voice of panic in the room. 

“Subject E is waking up. There was silence in the room, and the beeping sounds of the machine grew louder.