Dormisteryo

11

I had asked myself once about the meaning of life.

Do we exist just to suffer, or to die? To keep secrets? I don't know. Walang sinuman ang nakaaalam kung ano ang dahilan kung ba't tayo nabubuhay sa mundong ito.

Pero sa oras na ito, alam ko kung ano ang dapat kong gawin, at iyon ay ang malaman kung ano ang dahilan kung ba't nandito ako sa Arcana, sa ilalim ng tirik na araw, habang hinahanap kung saan matatagpuan ang Computer Science laboratories.

Kung wala ka ba namang mapa ng buong campus, siguradong aabutin ka ng siyam-siyam oras na maligaw ka rito. This university has everything. And what I mean about everything, it has every courses, every buildings, and every accomodations a college student would need to use.

Computer technology is one of the in-demand courses right now.

How ironic na kahit na Information Technology ang course ko, hindi ko pa rin mahanap yung computer science lab. I hate the fact that they separated our building into their laboratory. Bakit kasi may stigma na namamagitan sa computer science students mula sa aming mga IT students?

I somehow feel a huge difference between our course even though we shared mostly the same lessons. Nasasabi ko ito sa sarili ko dahil maging sa university na pinasukan ko bago rito ay may ganito ring sitwasyon.

Computer science students were looked upon by most of the other courses. Iniisip nila na one step above ang mga com-sci students kumpara sa amin, na medyo aminado ako, na mahirap nga ang karamihan sa lessons nila.

That's why I understood the fact that whoever that Ray is, siguradong maalam siya at marami siyang nalalamang bagay para gamitin laban sa mga taong walang alam sa ginagawa nila.

He must know how to code, how to find information about someone else. But why can't he try looking for Casey with the talents and skills that he has?

If I were him, I would have hacked all the CCTV camera around the vicinity and checked every recording of what happened that day in Dormisteryo.

However, while I'm busy walking at the sidewalk around the campus, I also thought of what happened with the investigation. For sure even the police force would do a thorough checking of Dormisteryo and they might as well checked the CCTV footages, pero kataka-taka naman talaga kung wala silang nakitang bakas ng kapatid ni Kesha.

She couldn't just disappear like that. She's not a magician of some sort. How could it happen?

Naalala ko tuloy yung misteryosong pangyayari na naganap sa isang hotel sa ibang bansa, when that poor woman started acting mysterious inside the hotel elevator and ended up being found dead inside the hotel's water reservoir later on.

No one knows what really happened. Pero magiging ganito rin kaya ang kaso ng pagkawala ni Casey?

Only time will tell unless someone would do something to investigate more than what was done already. Mukhang kulang pa ang lahat ng naisagawa ng mga pulisya, hindi pa sapat ang mga nakalap nilang impormasyon.

Or maybe, just maybe, Cris was right. Maybe the people inside unit 16 might have been hiding something from us. Something that they're too afraid to reveal from others.

And like what Azi told me as well, I could never trust people in Dormisteryo. Pero bakit? Ano bang itinatago nila at bakit hindi ko sila mapagkatitiwalaan?

Napabuntong-hininga na lang ako. I can't answer my own questions like this. I'm just overthinking.

I stopped walking and decided to take some rest. Tama nga si Martin, if you don't have a map and you're new in Arcana, then you'll definitely find yourself lost in this campus.