Halfway by Lokesh Sharma

Author:Lokesh Sharma
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lokesh Sharma
Published: 2017-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Girl with Colorful Hair

“Nooo! I want it now!” The little boy burst into tears, his eyes fixed on the large hologram floating in midair a couple feet above the centre of the shiny circular floor. It was a three dimensional image of two cold-eyed agents clad in black armor-suits. They stood facing opposite each other, posing with laser blasters in their hands. ‘Pursuit of Salvation IV’ written at the bottom in orange letters, blinking.

Boy’s mother knelt down to his level. “Momma doesn’t have money today. We can buy it once she gets her salary, right?” she said in a pampering tone, cupping kid’s face. The boy began to cry even louder. His mother, now a little embarrassed, looked around to see if people were watching.

Forty-third floor of The Great Mall of Enigma was swarming with thousands of Myrits, garbed in different dresses, wearing different hairstyles, going in and out of different shops that encompassed the floor, but they all seemed too busy to notice the sweet ongoing mother-son argument. Then she saw Dev, who was looking at them from a distance with a faint smile on his face, and smiled. Dev stretched his smile a little wider.

The little boy had reminded Dev of his own childhood: how he used to bother his mother by his unreasonable demands. I wish I could see her, just once, he thought, although he knew it was impossible. His mother was on Earth, still a human being, while he was stuck here, in a place where he had no friends, no family, no one to give a shit about how he was feeling. No one to tell him everything would be okay. His old memories were all he had to cope with his loneliness and despair.

“Nooo! Today! I want it today!” the boy screamed again, wiping his tears. He seemed too real to be a Mroid, but then every Mroid was designed to look that way.

The first time Dev had seen a kid (a girl) in Enigma, he hadn’t been able to help but wonder what crime could a kid so small have possibly committed? Did she really need to prove her compatibility in order to be declared a citizen of Elysium? It wasn’t until he searched the Hyperspace (something he did these days to avert his mind from his problems) for information on these kids that he found out they were not Myrits.

All children in Enigma below ten years were Mroids—robots capable of emulating Myrits.

Humans who lost their lives at early age were deemed ineligible for salvation, as the reason people were brought to trials in Enigma was to determine if their behavioral tendencies were compatible with lifestyle of Elysium—something that was almost impossible to ascertain based on those children’s short lifespan. So they were sent back to Earth to relive a human life with a different identity. In Enigma, Myrits were incapable of reproducing, even though they had sexual organs, which was the reason companies like Biotron Technologies produced Mroids—so that married couples in the realm could adopt (buy) them to complete their families.

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