Cold. That's the atmosphere in the room. Feeling like her eyes are stabbing me. Slow and repetitively. Trying to find a mistake in my body. Something that suggests that I'm different then what she saw in her mind.
"What's your name?"
Rose breaks the silence. Still looking with her eyes of ice. Holding me captive in the question until I answer it.
"My name is Keith Egntel. My mother name was Debrah Egntel."
My voice was shaky, soft. Low. I knew she could hear me though. Because her face changed to one that was now trying to examine me. Trying to figure out where she went wrong with finding me.
"Never mind about it. Your have until autumn begins to get ready. So I'd say about four months."
Waving her hand in front of her face as if to wave off a fly. Last part was said more to herself then to Keith.
"Can I ask what do you mean I have until fall?"
Now composed to ask the question without sounding scared and shook. Or without sound at all.
"You removed the device we showed you at the interrogation room? The one with all the tubes."
"Yes."
"Well you will be participating in an experiment along with some others."
After that last part she grabs the photos off of my lap, that's laying spread onto the hospital bed.
"Yes, you have told me about the experiment that happening. What will the experiment have me doing?"
I smile tries to sneak onto her face but she catches it. Rubbing her checks to pull it away from her mouth.
"You will be going to war. And think back on it I'm kinda surprised that the higher-ups let me just call a guy out of prison for this."
Pictures in hand, she now turns to walk away half-way toward the door, I ask her.
"Why? What happening around the world? Why would I have to go to war?"
She right up against the door frame when she turns around to answer my question.
"Nothing is wrong with the world now."
Now my curiosity nearly peaks making me ask questions like.
"If there's nothing wrong with the world now, why will I have to go to a war that isn't happening?"
"The war 'happened' already but we don't know the real ending of it."
Rose answered my question in a weird way that I have no idea what she even meant by that.
"What?"
"It doesn't matter you will be understanding soon enough. For now I need to get you ready. You are my candidate for this experiment and if you fail you ruin my reputation. I can't have you doing that."
"Sorry, but how does what I do affect your life?"
Tone of voice coming off a little stronger than usual. I have always had that type of problem. People have fought me cause of it beat my ass to the ground, for it. Now it has mad someone that has been able to bring me out of jail, for what I think, no money at all.
Her face looking back at me is… What I can say. Pure anger.
"First of all, Child. I have just brought you out of prison and told you, 'You can be stoch free of any and all time at all!' And you tell me that sh*t!"
She doesn't say it, but her face does…
'I could send you right back there!'
She now feels unable to want to keep me here but I think there is a reason she can't send me away for some reason. That I know.
Not wanting to anger her anymore I apologize. Though she walks out the room leaving me here alone. She still didn't even look at me after her angry break down.
My world is kinda spun a little. First, I'm shown a picture of people I didn't know, which she claims is me. After that she claimed she wanted me to go to a war that finished and that 'we don't know what happened.'
"Who says that type of shit in this day and age?"
I slam my mouth shut. I thought out loud. Damn. That embarrassing.
Suddenly the door is opened not quick not loud but just opened. John walks in.
"Ms. Rose just walked out telling me to inform you of what you are going to do and that I'm going to train you. Along with the fact that you have angered her ever so slightly, she wants me to train you till you can barely feel your body. Now here's what your are going to be subjected to in this experiment…"
'Finally an explanation of what going to happen…'