The Girl from Nowhere

****Lyra*****

My mind opened wide. I sat up slowly, but to my astonishment, the bed floated up with me, lifting off the ground, hanging in the air. I felt it was a dream.

I hit myself on my cheeks to confirm if I was dreaming or in reality, yet, I still opened my eyes to see that the walls around me weren't mine, the walls were silver paneled like glass. And standing a few steps away…were two mechanical objects exactly like human beings staring right at me.

My chest tightened. “What’s happening?” I said, not knowing that the statement had slipped out of my mouth.

“Strange human being detected,”

“Activation sequence….completed,” One of them said, his/her voice buzzing underneath, and her/ his hand twisting unnaturally.

It was then, I knew what I had got myself into, they were…. robots. My chest tightened, and different sci-fi movies that I had watched flashed into my head. I, Robot, Terminator. Even that creepy M3GAN one. And now, I was the girl stuck inside one of them.

“Do they wanna kill me?” I said loudly and then, I jumped down from the bed that was hanging in the air.

But, before I could move an inch, the door opened widely, and a woman stepped into the room. Her green eyes narrowed at me, she was probably in her late twenties, her skin…. Omg… never seen a caramel skin as glassy as that.

“She’s the new student,” She announced.

New student?! What does that even mean? From what I could remember, I was at the stall earlier, left for the train station, forgot my card, trekked, and picked up a fascinating leaf. So where was being a new student coming from?

“What do you mean?” I inquired, curiosity laced in my voice. I moved closer to her, my legs shaking and my hands trembling, I couldn't wrap my head around what was happening.

“Yeah, you registered yourself last night,” She said, her gaze still fixed on me, “What’s going on?”

Last night?! How?! I don't know if I was carrying my body, but I felt my legs being dragged to the window side, trying to peep through it, but I couldn't see anything, which means the window that I thought was just a HD picture.

“Press the button,” The woman said.

“Button, before I could look from the window?!”

Then, suddenly, I heard a beep and the window opened widely, and my jaw dropped instantly. Everything was entirely different, cars were flying, gliding through the air, like it was a normal thing in the world.

“What the actual hell?” I whispered.

But, not only that I was astonished to watch, the towers were glowing—gold, taller than anything I’d ever seen. My mouth opened wide. My mouth was drooling with saliva, I was absolutely mesmerized.

“Are you okay?” The woman inquired.

Before I could answer, both she and the robot turned and left the room, her footsteps echoed and disappeared afterward in a second.

Everything that was happening was still not clear and extremely bizarre, impossible, yet real. I dragged my leg from the advanced window I was standing, looking around the room, everything was technologically advanced. Throughout my 23 years on earth, I haven't witnessed what I was seeing.

Suddenly, my gaze fell on something at the wall, which was glowing faintly— it looked exactly like a digital calendar, I moved closer to it.

“23-10-3010,” I declared, the numbers hit me like a bombshell.

Wait first, it can't be, I closed my eyes and opened them again—still the same thing.

“Time travel……” I spoke out, my voice laced with confirmation and confidence.

Different memories of movies that entailed time travel swirled in, but it seems mine was different. Instead of traveling back in time, I was in the future…..I looked around for my bag, but to my surprise, the bag was nowhere to be found.

“How did I get myself into this?”

“How about my life before? “

My pastry stall, my small apartment, my savings, my plan for the future?! , everything dawned on me at that moment.

“No!!!” I let out suddenly.

“I have to find a way to go back to where I came from,” I declared, while proceeding to the door. The door was made with black titanium, laced with glowing circuits. There was no knob, and there were no hinges. It scanned my presence before I even reached it.

“Welcome, Lyra,” the door said in a calm mechanical voice.

My body jerked, “This is becoming real,” I said, “Technologia.”

Then, without a sound, the surface split apart and revealed a vast compound, and at the center of it was a group of students dressed in uniform, but the uniform wasn't made of fabric, it was glass, showing different colors with every movement.

I noticed they weren't looking in my direction, it was then it came to my head, that was the best time for me to leave.

“How will I locate the main gate,” I mumbled under my breath, while my eyes scanned the vast compound for any escape route.

I stood there for about 15minutes and no one noticed my presence, and no exit was found, my chest tightened, different questions lingered in my thoughts.

“Is this even real?”

I looked around, there were no traces of the flying cars I saw by the window earlier, just a beautiful sky that I couldn't even describe whether we were in daylight or at night—-HD Sky.

Suddenly, a sound beeped out of nowhere, my body jerked, the sound rang through my ear to my brain. My eyes followed where the sound came from, then, a gate opened wide and a black car entered the vast compound. Within a blink of an eye, the car disappeared under ground. My reflection showed on the glass floor, maybe I was the next.

“Hello, Miss Lyra” A voice said beside me, sending a shock through my backbone.

“I’m Damian Miles,” The voice added.