Sci-fi Story:
Robin Foale,
15/5/2013
Sitting
in a round and empty white room the long red haired girl looks around her new
surroundings. With only a small black bench and matching non transparent window
that stretches across half the room's wall to vary the environment the girl
sits in silence. Waiting, wondering how she got into this situation. Looking
down her white medical gown she spots for the first time a white name tag
around her right hand wrist.
"Alice?" she reads curiously. "Is that my name?"
She tries to remember but as she does a section of the wall lifts up, revealing a blue humanoid droid.
"Ah! Have you calmed down now?" it says in an intellectual male voice, approaching her with a tray in its hands.
"Calmed down?" She replies confused as the droid places the tray on the bench next to her. On it a number of components for a device the girl can't recognise.
"Why yes. You did get awfully mad after all, thus for your own safety we put you in here." the droid says as it starts to assemble the device.
"Tell me... how do you feel?" it asks curiously.
"Not good. I feel like I'm going to throw up any minute. Can I get some fresh air?" the girl says starting to feel light headed.
"You mean to say you can't breathe in here?"
"Of course I..."
"Or did you mean the air in here isn't fresh? For if that were the case you are most mistaken. This room is filtered with the oxygen you need..."
"I just want a change of scenery! Some grass... trees..."
"Well if that was all. We can provide that no problem."
As the droid says this the white floor projects a flat grass surface as the non-transparent window projects a beautiful scene of trees in a meadow, a stream coursing through the centre of it.
"How's that?" it says optimistically as it completes half of the hand held device.
"It's all fake..." the red head whispers looking down.
"What's that...?"
"I said it's all fake!" she yells at the droid in frustration. "This isn't..."
"Oh but on the contrary. All these projections are from ever green meadow in..."
"A meadow? Nearby? That's perfect! Let's go there then."
"My dear Alice... why would you want to leave? It's safe here. More importantly, you're safe" it says with only one quarter of the device left to build.
The red head remains silent, staring at the droid before looking back at the name tag.
"Alice? Is that my name?"
"Perhaps..."
"What do you mean by 'perhaps'?" she says raising her voice before she can stop herself, she already knows the sort of thing it’s going to say.
"Well it either means that is your name... or it isn't. Honestly, it's not rocket science you kn..."
"Don't you know my name then?"
Hearing this the droid stops, halfway through screwing on the last rectangular piece to the device. It stands still, not making any other move or saying anything.
"Well? Do you or don't you?" she says raising her voice again, slowly rising off the bench. She is about to ask again when the droid responds in more of a hurry.
"You must be thirsty! Please, help yourself to some water" it says as a panel in the wall reveals itself.
Inside the panel a cup is slowly filling with clear glistening water which is coming out of a hole above it. Tired and feeling worse the girl just sighs.
"I suppose it's something..." she says bitterly as she gets up and approaches the cup.
Picking it up with her right hand she is about to put it to her lips when her eyes gaze once again at the name tag dangling on the lifted hand.
"Where am I?" she asks looking around, only now remembering that she has never been in or seen this room before.
"Alice?" she reads curiously. "Is that my name?"
She tries to remember but as she does a section of the wall lifts up, revealing a blue humanoid droid.
"Ah! Have you calmed down now?" it says in an intellectual male voice, approaching her with a tray in its hands.
"Calmed down?" She replies confused as the droid places the tray on the bench next to her. On it a number of components for a device the girl can't recognise.
"Why yes. You did get awfully mad after all, thus for your own safety we put you in here." the droid says as it starts to assemble the device.
"Tell me... how do you feel?" it asks curiously.
"Not good. I feel like I'm going to throw up any minute. Can I get some fresh air?" the girl says starting to feel light headed.
"You mean to say you can't breathe in here?"
"Of course I..."
"Or did you mean the air in here isn't fresh? For if that were the case you are most mistaken. This room is filtered with the oxygen you need..."
"I just want a change of scenery! Some grass... trees..."
"Well if that was all. We can provide that no problem."
As the droid says this the white floor projects a flat grass surface as the non-transparent window projects a beautiful scene of trees in a meadow, a stream coursing through the centre of it.
"How's that?" it says optimistically as it completes half of the hand held device.
"It's all fake..." the red head whispers looking down.
"What's that...?"
"I said it's all fake!" she yells at the droid in frustration. "This isn't..."
"Oh but on the contrary. All these projections are from ever green meadow in..."
"A meadow? Nearby? That's perfect! Let's go there then."
"My dear Alice... why would you want to leave? It's safe here. More importantly, you're safe" it says with only one quarter of the device left to build.
The red head remains silent, staring at the droid before looking back at the name tag.
"Alice? Is that my name?"
"Perhaps..."
"What do you mean by 'perhaps'?" she says raising her voice before she can stop herself, she already knows the sort of thing it’s going to say.
"Well it either means that is your name... or it isn't. Honestly, it's not rocket science you kn..."
"Don't you know my name then?"
Hearing this the droid stops, halfway through screwing on the last rectangular piece to the device. It stands still, not making any other move or saying anything.
"Well? Do you or don't you?" she says raising her voice again, slowly rising off the bench. She is about to ask again when the droid responds in more of a hurry.
"You must be thirsty! Please, help yourself to some water" it says as a panel in the wall reveals itself.
Inside the panel a cup is slowly filling with clear glistening water which is coming out of a hole above it. Tired and feeling worse the girl just sighs.
"I suppose it's something..." she says bitterly as she gets up and approaches the cup.
Picking it up with her right hand she is about to put it to her lips when her eyes gaze once again at the name tag dangling on the lifted hand.
"Where am I?" she asks looking around, only now remembering that she has never been in or seen this room before.
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