"It's a great gift that we can input ourselves into people's timelines. Anyone we chose. The stranger on the bus seat next to you or a long lost friend. If we know who it is, then it's relatively easy from then on. It doesn't make a substantial difference, either way it would still reach its end goal but it is always fun to see the influence you could have had."   "So, you're telling me that Adrian was never your friend to begin with?"   "No, his is."   "And you let them do this to him, how could you be so heartless?"   He rolled his cat like eyes. "Friendship is an expensive deal and not always worth it. Power however, is just as expensive but more worthy."   "So, what you're telling me that all of them are in my path, my own journey. But I'm awake. Why am I awake and they aren't?"   "I'm putting it on your subconscious, realizing it's not your version of th

"Are you not supposed to know what is going on around here? If you won, if the OA won why keep us alive, when you can just kill us, kill me and be finished with this. That way you don't have someone on your tail willing to stop you-""I would stop there if I were you Alexis, they are listening." Quickly, he pointed to all the cameras that were so well hidden that I would never have noticed if he did not somewhat reveal them. His movements, fluid almost too smooth to be human. His eyes locked onto mine, the darkness of them contrasting with his skin and hair, it was striking and intimidating all at the same time. "Don't want to give them even more reasons to kill you.""I am sure they have thought of that already. If you are smart enough to put me in a SIM that warps my sense of reality, you are smart enough to think of all the possibilities of what would happen when I woke up. All the possibilities." Maybe if I could be manipulative, coerce him into thinking that he me

Chapter 35The blue skies wrapped around me, the sweet aroma of the flowers that wrapped around me in the endless meadow fields. The sun beating happily down onto my skin, dancing patterns swirled across my hazel brown complexion. Everything seemed stilled and finally, I felt at peace. I knew this was a dream, it had to be. But I didn’t want to wake up, I didn’t want anything to take me away from this paradise. I didn’t want to return back to my nightmare reality. Faced with an impossible choice.The winds whipped calmly

Chapter 37“This isn’t useful to anyone. If this is going to go successfully we need to have faith in each other. Dad, do you have faith in me?” He looked hard at me for a brief moment before nodding. “Then have faith in him.” I had just met Jace but it was clear he was going for the same ideals that I was and to deny him now would prove no good. He could just as easily break this plan as he could aid it. He was essential.“So what is the plan?” I asked Jace.“

Chapter 38I was fully dressed in the new, fresh clothes given to me. It felt better to wear something completely different from the black attire I was forced to wear for weeks. Heaving, I forced my body upwards. Pushing down all the pins and pain spiking throughout my body. “Lean on me.” Jace standing next to me, over powered me in height to the point that it was slightly intimidating. I shook my head declining his offer, I need to walk on my own. I should not be this reliant on others. “Alexis, it does not make you any less of the person you are now. Trust me, if I support you, we’ll get through this quicker. Everyone involved would be better off.”