In The Technology Room
I can't make anything out... Is that a mirror... A person... Who is that? I don't know, but she's staring at me. I don't know why. What did the man say? Jeanne? My head hurts... The light and dark whirl before me and then melt together, like they're one. Where am I? What's happening? Rob?
'Are you all right?'
She opens her eyes. Rob is standing before her, one eyebrow raised in his own worried way. Behind him she can see the outline of a blue, metal door, almost not visible against the dark background.
'Yeah. Yeah, I think so' Her head hurt, but she didn't remember what happened. Like that's a surprise. There was... A mirror? And red eyes, staring at her... She shuddered.
Rob looked at her suspiciously for another moment before turning around. He got a set of keys out of his pocket and tried one little, white key, which weirdly enough looked like it had been made of marmer. Meanwhile he started to talk again.
'I know what made you forget all of what has happened. We need to go through this fastly, we don't have that much time. It's almost 'night'' He turned the key and opened the door.
'Why do you say night that way? And... And from what do I have no idea?'
'It's hard to explain. Now shut up for a moment'
She just wanted to say something back when she stepped through the door. She held her breath and closed her eyes; The white that surrounded her everywhere almost blinded her after the dark hallway.
When she felt that she could look again she opened her eyes and looked around. It was a conference hall-like room, with an oval, white table in the middle, white rectangle tables placed all around the edges of the chamber where all sort of things stood on, and all around the walls there was a big screen, but it was probably turned off right now. At the other side stood a blackboard, and someone stood before it.
From everything in the room, she was with distance the most colourfull and attention drawing. She wore a short, white dress, but another sort of white dan elsewhere in the room, with little black spots on it. Over that she had on a blue denim jacket with little fake-diamonds on it- or were they real? She also wore bright red high heels, and in her lightbrown hair that layed loosely over her shoulders was placed a coronet made of the different coloured roses from outside.
'Noor' Rob came standing next to her. 'Turn around to welcome our new special gast'
The woman turned around and she saw the happy, a little bit child-like face of the woman with the name Noor. Her big, warm smile of was a proof of pure happiness and carefreeness, like there was no bad luck in the world. Her amber-coloured eyes shone like stars, and there was something in her face that made her think of someone, but she couldn't remember who.
'What, Robbie?', she said playfully. She walked around the table and lend against one of the chairs around it.
'Don't call me that. And not what, but who' He pushed her forward and she went pink in her white cheeks. 'Meet Jeanne'
Noor said right-sight-up when she heard that name, her eyes big and round. 'Jeanne? But I thought her dad send us a letter she wouldn't come!'
'I don't know what happened, the important thing is that she lost her memory and we need to check what I think'
'Wait, what?'
'Silence, Noor' Rob pulled her (Jeanne, apparently, but she didn't felt that way yet) past Noor and to another door at the back of the chamber. It was a little darker than the white walls, with a large silver lock. There was a small sign pinned on the door which said 'The Technical Room'. Rob took another key from his set, this time a big, silver one.
The door opened and this time there was a lot more to see in the room.
The lights were dimmed, so it was pretty dark inside, but above the door hung one single light bulb, which made it possible to see more than only twenty centimetres. And what she saw was unbelieveble.
Everywhere she looked, there were machines and electronica. From most of the things some of the threads were coming out of it or you could still see all the parts or all the parts weren't even connected yet. Some she recognised (how!?) and some she couldn't make out. Some lay on one of the old, wooden tables standing everywhere, some were to big so they stood on the ground. Some you could see and over some lay an old, dirty, probably once white sheet, covering whatever mysterious machine was under it. At one end of the room was a little lab, where all kinds of bottles with different coloured liquid stood, and at the other hand was drawn a curtain so you couldn't see what was behind it.
'It must be something really special...', she thought. She looked around and wanted nothing more than to explore this amazing chamber, but she didn't get the time. Rob dragged her to a sort of mechanism or controller just beside the curtain, with Noor just after them.
Rob got another key out of his pocket, this time a really small one, made of rusted bronze. He stuck it in the machine, which roared, and then put into an access code. She and Noor waited expectandly for him to finish. A stream of numbers rolled over the screen. He put on a headphone, listened to something, then put in another code, did the headphones off and looked around.
'Yes', he said, more to Noor than to her. The child-like woman gasped.
'Yes what?', she asked, a little impatient now. Why did they need to be so secritive? Had they forgotten that she couldn't remember more than 24 hours of her life? How old was she actually? She hadn't thought of that before.
Noor chuckled. 'Oh, you got a lot to explain to her, Robbie' She wanted to walk away. 'Have fun with it!'
'Not so fast', Rob said and Noor stopped in her tracks. 'You're always saying that we're doing this together, than you have to go through this kind of stuff too'
Noor groaned. 'Like you're ever taking me seriously' She walked back. 'Okay, than we're doing this together'
'Doing what together?' Her headache got worse with the minute. Didn't they get that all this was way too much for her now? Traveling at the speed of light, a weird castle, disappearing doors, a creepy hallway, people who don't explain anything... She just wanted to sleep.
But a few minutes later the three of them sat at the big white table in the, what Rob called it, 'Conference Hall'. None of them said anything. The only noise came from Noor, who had taken of the coronet and played with the leaves.
She was tired of the silence and decided to take matter in her own hands. She wanted to know what the hell was going on.
'So...', she started. 'Am I going to get an explanation now?'
The two adults looked at her.
'I...' Noor fell silent. 'Robbie, I don't know where to begin'
'Me neither' Rob stood up and walked to the blackboard. On it was drawn a blueprint for some machine and Rob looked like he'd rather be busy with that than this right now. 'Unbelieveble that she's forgotten just éverything. I don't know if she will even believe us'
'I'm right here, remember?' She was getting a little worried now. What was so important? Why didn't she remember anything?
'Why- Why don't we use the screen?', Noor suggested.
Rob sighed. 'Sure, why not? It's going to cost us energy for the monitor, but we are going to be here for another while anyway'
He walked towards a mechanism similar to the one in The Technical Room, only this one was white and seemed less complicated. He pushed some buttons, pulled some handels and typed in some codes until the black screen before them came to life.
On the monitor you could now see a sort of drawing. Seven weird-shaped circles, looking like they once fitted in with each other, were visible. On some places were drawn crosses or lines indicating things she really didn't understand.
Rob grabbed a white stick from behind the control panel an pointed at the topmost circle. 'This is where we are now, Jeanne'
'Okay,', she said, still not getting it. 'And where exactly ís that?'
He sighed again and closed his eyes impatiently. 'It's called- well, we call it- the Light-World. It's one of the seven core-dimensions. You can quess what the others are'
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