Anew: Book One: Awakened by Litton Josie

Author:Litton, Josie [Litton, Josie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Josie Litton Books
Published: 2015-01-12T08:00:00+00:00

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I am in the gestation chamber, trapped and helpless. It is my world, all I have ever known. That other world--filled with light, color, sensation--was an illusion woven by my starving mind. A pathetic delusion, its loss only heightening my anguish.

The white-coated technicians are priming their machines. Soon the pain will begin. I open my mouth to scream but my throat is paralyzed. Panic strikes and I struggle to breathe only to realize that I can’t. I have never taken a breath, never eaten, hardly moved. My body is maintained. My mind is left to fend for itself. As for my heart…

Where do the people go when they aren’t on the other side of the glass walls? Where am I when I am not awake to see them?

Time passes, moments merging one into another. Suddenly, in a flicker, there are more beings on the other side of the glass, many more, working intently. So many, so busy that I try to brace myself for the agony that is to come. It does but not in any way I could expect.

Motion--I am moving!

Different walls surround me, a room I have never seen before but I hardly notice.

The level of liquid in my chamber is suddenly dropping. Terror fills me. How can I exist without the medium that has sustained me all this time?

I begin to thrash and am restrained. A tube is forced down my throat. Air fills my lungs for the first time.

Light unfiltered by fluid strikes my eyes. Sounds assail me…the murmur of voices, the beep of machinery…

I am strapped down on a hard surface. Something that I can’t see is attached to my head. Pain and fear are so much my normal companions that I hardly notice them anymore. But suddenly there is more…much more…something faint, elusive, growing…

Someone.

Awareness explodes within me. For the first time, I have words and with them a flood of concepts and ideas that they illuminate. From all that, my mind forms a single, transforming thought:

I.

I exist. I am.

Like the beaten man on the ground. Like the woman in the portrait. Like all those in the drab uniforms and those who put them there. Every one of us, each singular and unique.

I blink and Ian is coming toward me out of the shadows. His stride is steady, his eyes intent. The world is falling away before me. I reach out frantically, feeling the brush of his fingers, the touch of his breath in the moment before hope slips from my grasp and I plummet into drowning darkness.

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