* Big thanks to Sir Ocean Stardust who help edited this chapter!
Lorin's helmet's POV:
[Lorin's Log, Part One.]
*Static sound*
"Fucking piece of shit! *Static* Never doing what I want it to do..." Lorin's voice suddenly stops abruptly, as if he's starting to realize something. "HA! There we go! Now you decide to start working you piece of shit. Let's start over shall we?"
"Would you like to delete your last entry...?"
"Yes." Lorin replies.
"Entry deleted... Would you like to start a new entry...?"
"Yes." Lorin answers with a hint of annoyance present in his voice.
"New entry created... Please state the name of this entry..."
"Lorin's Log, Part One." Lorin speaks in a calm and sturdy tone.
"Would you like to start..." [Lorin's voice] "Lorin's Log, Part One..."
"Yes!" Lorin practically yells the first part, only to stop himself. "Yes" Lorin repeats in a whisper.
"Starting..." [Lorin's voice] "Lorin's Log, Part One." [Resume normal automated voice] "In 3,2,1..."
[Lorin's Log, Part One]
"OK here's the deal to anyone listing to this recording. My name's Lorin, Andree, Conway. I'm 25 years old as of today which is June/8/2020. Well I hope that's the date, I haven't really been counting since day zero. Anyways back to the matter at hand. I don't normally do these 'self reflections' but I figured if I ever did, now would be the best time."
"You may ask yourself why is today the best time for me to start these 'self reflection' logs Lorin? Well the solution is quite easy for me to answer, because as of tomorrow I'll probably be.... dead. So I have started this log to keep me 'sane', during this process and or after this process has been completed."
"My current situation, well I'm in a 'Changeling' cell that is made up of what looks to be some sort of black goop and is also accompanied by some green glowing goop. Sorry for my vague description here, but as of right now I have no idea how to describe it any further, other than its black, sticky and cold."
"The bars at the front of my cell are made up of the green goop, as it seems to be the stronger one of the two colors. The only light I have in my cell comes from the hallway and even that is faint. Other than that, the whole cell is empty, other than me of course. Not even a sink, toilet or bed was provided just a small fifteen by fifteen foot box. Well not 'actual' feet the measurement, I just used my foot to count."
"Why you may ask, am I a prisoner of the Changelings? Well in order for me to tell you, I would have to start from the very beginning. So pull up a chair because this first log is going to be a long one."
Lorin's POV:
Three Days Ago...
"So Lorin here's my offer." Chrysalis turns back to you and uses her wings to hover slightly above you, as if to show her dominance. "You'll live if you help me rule these lands. Your knowledge is very precious, but is also replaceable." Chrysalis smiles and continues. "So what's your choice Lorin? Die a pitiful death, or help a queen regain her land?"
In your mind this is an easy one to answer, but for some reason you don't think Chrysalis would approve of it. You bring your hand up to your chin in a pondering pose. "Hmm you make quite the good deal here Chrysalis, but if you don't mind I'll take you up on that offer you had a while ago about leaving."
Chrysalis smiles "After you killed my two highest ranked guards. I don't think that's an option anymore Lorin." Chrysalis replies as she hovers your M-9 in front of her, inspecting it. "So Lorin, what's your choice? Die now or live?"
You look around the hive, noticing that the Changeling minions are in there pods fast asleep, unaware of what is happening. You smile and look over to Chrysalis. "You just don't get it do you? You think I fear death? You think I would shoot two of your highest ranked guards, without knowing the consequences? Well I have to tell you this. Yes, yes I do fear death! You know why that's a good thing!" You ask walking closer to Chrysalis, who is now going wide eye. "Because it means I'll do anything to prevent it."
With quick thinking after your little speech, you grab Chrysalis's horn and slam her face first into the black sticky goop. The green aura around your M-9 disappears and falls into your hand. You look over the pistol to make sure it still has its full clip in it, which it did.
You slowly approach Chrysalis with your M-9 in the grip of your right hand. "If you don't fear death, then you're crazy and let me tell you one last thing." You kneel down in front of her. She still has her face in the black goop dazed by the sheer force you slammed her down at. "I'm talking from experience."
*BANG*
With a satisfying smile upon your face, you turn yourself around towards the exit. Before you can lay an eye on the door your ears pick up a slight buzzing sound. The buzzing stops a few seconds later causing you to not think deeply into it. You start your walk to the door only to have the same buzzing come back, but this time it was louder and there was more than one source.
Curiosity finally gets the best of you and you turn around to see the whole hive has awoken. It would of been a beautiful sight to see -all the Changelings buzzing around- If they weren't heading straight for you!
Turning back around, you book it to the main door that Chrysalis said was the way out of this hell hole. As you run to the door Changelings drop from the sky like drop pods covered with a green glow. You can feel the ground beneath your feet shake as each Changeling hits the ground.
Just a few steps away from freedom, a Changeling falls from the sky and hits you smack dab in the back causing you to topple over. You and the Changeling roll a couple of times before hitting the door and stopping. You and the changeling exchange looks at one another before you take the M-9 to his or her head. You can't really tell with these things.
*BANG*
The Changelings green blood splatters all over your face.
Instantly in response to the bang the Changeling goes limp in your arms and you toss the creature off of you. You get up slightly dazed from the impact and look behind you to see the Changelings aren't giving up any time soon.
You open the door quickly, but to your surprise through that door was yet another black walled room that seemed to be completely empty. Fuckin' bitch lied to me! You say in your head, as you turn around to see the Changeling army.
At that exact moment time seemed to slow down. There're four Changelings that have already pounced at you. They're soaring through the air like missiles with rather angry looks upon their faces. A expression that could rival a person fighting for his beliefs.
Not wasting anymore time you pull out your M-9 and shoot one of the four Changelings, watching the bullet wiz through the air in slow motion. You follow the path of the bullet going deep into the Changeling hoard. You keep your heading, shooting anything that's blocking your way.
Within seconds your pistol runs dry and you holster it in its respected pouch. Simultaneously with your left hand you grab your combat knife out of your coveralls. With nothing left to lose you charge a group of Changelings in front of you that were blocking another door.
With the door being your next goal, you tackle the first Changeling to the floor slitting his throat in the process. The Changelings struggles a bit in your hands as his green blood escapes his body and onto the floor. Soon after the Changeling goes limp in your grasp and you move onto your next target.
There were three more Changelings in the group and they all stared at you in shock as you got up off their fellow comrade. The one in the middle was the first to act, as he jumped towards you. You pull out your knife and stab the Changeling in the stomach as he fly's past you. Your knife gets stuck in the Changelings body as his lifeless carcass hits the ground a good ten feet away from you.
The other two changelings in the group see this and are quick to act as they both charge at you. You take the time to get into a defensive stance. The first changeling hits your right leg unexpectedly and you topple to the ground. The second changeling fly's up into the air and dive bombs you with a green glow surrounding him.
Quick to think you roll over to the right and the changeling hits the floor with a force that leaves a hefty crater. Dam! these changelings aren't setting their phasers to stun! You say to yourself as you stumble back up to your feet and so does the other two changelings. Once again they charge at you with all they got. You back up until your back hits what you assume to be a wall.
Turning around you're greeted once again by chrysalis's smile. With instincts kicking in you punch the bitch in the face knocking her out cold. Fuck that hurt! You say in your head as you shake your blood covered fist. Your actions are soon rewarded when the two other changelings charging you earlier smash into your back.
You can hear a crack as you hit the ground. The two Changelings get up and proceed to get their bearings. Taking this opportunity you jump up with a jolt of pain going through your back. You swing your right leg and punt the little fucker across the hive like a soccer ball. With a reassuring CRASH you turn your attention to the second changeling.
The changeling smiles as his horn lights up with a dark green aurora. Seconds later a green beam comes out and fly's straight towards you. With little time to react the beam hits you in the chest and slides off you like water. The changeling first gets a confused look then it changes to a worried expression once he realizes that you're immune to magic, even to you it came to a surprise.
He wastes no time and charges you like he did before in hopes of killing you using force. Shifting left the changeling misses and quickly turns around to face you. You bring up your arms in a fighting position and the changeling gets on his two hooves and does the same. You chuckle at the sight, but it is pretty honorable that he would consider fighting you fairly.
The Changeling swings and makes contact with your right shoulder. The impact didn't really feel like much, but it stung nevertheless. With it being your turn you swing your right fist at his face. It makes contact and you can hear another crack, but this one isn't coming from you.
The Changeling instantly goes limp and falls to the ground with green blood oozing out of its head. Holy shit I did that with just my hands? You ask yourself as it seems that you're much stronger then these black changelings. You look around the hive, but to your disliking you only managed to kill six changelings out of hundreds.
Surveying the area around you, you spot your knife on the ground. It was in a pretty clear spot and not much changelings were paying attention to it. You take opportunity when all the changelings are in shock to reload your M-9 and make a dash to the knife.
All the Changelings seem to snap out of their thoughts in unison as if they were all connected in some way. One of the changelings see's what you're trying to do and jumps at you. You dodge the changeling when you fall to the floor and slide towards your knife. Another changeling also see's this and dive bombs on top of the knife with a smirk upon his face.
You smirk back at the changeling as you pull out your M-9 and aim it straight at his head. The changeling changes his expression from a smirk to a look of shock and fear, as he knows all to well what's soon to follow.
*BANG*
Once again the changeling goes limp as his green blood coats the floor below him. You pick up the knife quickly and do a three sixty to address your current situation.
All the changelings were in a circle around you blocking every possible route.
While looking around you notice the door that you were trying to get to earlier, ah how you digress from your goals. With a maniac like smile ever so present on your face you charge at the door. To your surprise the changelings move out of the way. No doubt scared for their own life's at this point and who could blame them, they just saw you -an alien- knock out their queen twice and kill seven of them without so much as a punch to the shoulder.
You get to the door with no complications and enter the new room closing the door behind you. Looking around the room you spot a green looking bar on the wall. You quickly take the bar off the wall and shove it in between the handles to buy you some more time.
Seconds later you can hear arguments outside followed by a loud banging at the door. Holding in the perfect opportunity to say 'who is it?' you look around the room once more taking in what room you were actually in. It was small, well anything would be considered small compared to that huge main room you were just in. Not to mention these changelings were only like half your size.
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
The knocks get faster and faster as the time progresses, soon sounding more like a battering ram then a knock. You don't know how much more time you have left before the door breaks down so you start looking around the room for a place to hide.
The room had a large table in the middle with figures on it.
You head over to the table and investigate. The table had a map of this world along with some stone figures resembling the changelings that you have grown not to fond of as of lately. However along with the Changeling figures where other ones that looked similar, but more or less resembled a horse or would you call it a pon-.
*BANG*
*BANG*
Shit that doors not going to las-
*CRACK*
Right, you were looking for a place to hide! You do another three sixty around the room to look for a good place to lay low. Your eyes come across nothing that you can use as cover in fact the only thing you can think of at this moment is hiding under the table or behind the door.
The table seemed a bit too obvious, so you ran up beside the door and waited for the changelings to enter. You kept your M-9 holstered and your knife out. If there's a chance you can get out of this place unnoticed, you rather knife a changeling then shoot him alerting the whole hive of your location.
*BANG*
*CRACK*
*WOSH*
The green rod breaks and the door swings open, almost hitting you in the process. The changelings pour into the room like water searching every inch of it. Time passes and you're left in awe of how they haven't found you yet. It looks like the simplest places are the hardest to find.
With time passing the changelings slowly -one by one- leave the room until only two solitary changelings are left to guard it. The two changelings stand there talking to each other in a language you don't understand. Nevertheless you wait in your spot in hopes that one will leave or they'll position themselves in a better spot.
As minutes turn into hours, the two changelings finally split up and further investigate the room. One heads off to look in the opposite direction, looking at some shelves that held knickknacks. While the other one headed in your general direction.
The changeling passes the door and you take this moment to jump out and startle him. You cover his mouth with your hand to silence the screams that are sure to come. You take your knife and slit his throat and wait for the Changeling to go limp. You look up to see the other Changeling turning around to investigate the muffled voices he heard.
You instantly drop the Changelings body and throw your knife at the other Changeling. The other Changeling has no time to react as your knife embeds itself into his head and he too falls limp onto the ground with a Thump that worries you further. You can hear the guards outside the room talking before hoof steps are heard.
The two Changelings enter the room to see two of their fellow soldiers dead on the cold dark floor. They look around the room to see you standing there with a dead Changeling at your feet.
"Well this is awkward." You say as you jump over the table and grab your combat knife out of the dead Changelings head.
The two Changeling guard's eyes flair with anger as they let out a high pitch buzz with their wings.
"Well it was nice meeting you two, but I really must be going." You flip the table over towards the two Changelings distracting them for awhile while you look frantically around for another door.
To your luck there was another door at the back of the room. Thank the gods! You state in your mind as you full on sprint towards the door. Half expecting a Changeling to stop you at the last second. It wasn't till you opened the door that you put those thoughts to rest.
Your not in the clear yet Lorin.
Since when did I have a conscience?
You're really questioning the presents of a conscience when you've seen magic and Chrysalis still alive?
Yes.
Fuck you that's when! Happy? Now let's go before they catch up to us!
You shut the door rather loudly and turn around to take view of the room you have stumbled upon. Looking around you can barely make out the details of the room, in fact you don't think it's a room at all, but instead a hallway. With that sudden realization you pat your head to find that you still had your helmet on.
Pulling the visor down you engage night vision. The room soon lights up in a green tint, you can see everything now. Your inner celebration was interrupted as the two Changeling guard's burst through the door behind you.
Picking up the pace you double time it to the other end of the hallway skipping all the doors in-between. However the two Changelings use their wings as a speed boost and are slowly gaining on you. You could do nothing but hope you reach the door in time or face getting captured.
Arriving at the door out of breath from the fighting and running you open it up and slam it closed behind you, because fuck stealth and fuck those changelings! You can hear the two Changelings on the other side talking in their language. What happens next was rather confusing, the two Changelings start to laugh and after some shuffling noises there hoof steps fade as they walk away from the other side of the door.
Being completely caught off guard you attempt to open the door, only for it to be blocked from the other side. You start to get a bad feeling about entering this room. Turning around you take a look around. It was rather big, but overall empty just like the other rooms. It seems weird that these Changelings have a castle but never stored anything in it.
That also reminds you, you have been almost everywhere on this floor and you have yet to see any sign of a kitchen. You quickly dispatch the thought as you remember there are bigger questions that need to be answered first. Like how the fuck is Chrysalis still alive you shot her in the fucking head!
You continue to look around the room finding nothing of interest and no where to escape. That entrance you came in was also the only way out. You assume that the Changelings were laughing because you managed to trap yourself.
Leaning up against one of the four walls you pick up a slight clanging of metal. You disregard the sound as you have already checked the entire room. The only way into this place would be through that front door or breaking down one of the walls.
The clanging of metal continues to do its job of making you nervous as it gets louder and louder. You have literally no idea what could be making that noise. You thought of kitchen tools clanging but this was a different sound, it sounded like two pieces of heavy metals where scraping and banging onto one and another.
Finally the noise stops and you start to relax. You look around the room once more to see that everything is how it was before. Nothing was moved because there was nothing too move. You go back to leaning against the wall staring at the front door awaiting your capture. You'll try to fight it again no doubt but fighting hundreds of Changelings is a losing battle anyway you look at it.
*BANG*
You're tossed from your wall when the wall literally explodes into a million pieces of black goop and green goop. Dazed from the explosion you stumble to your feet to find out what was the cause of this explosion.
With your eyes now focusing you look up to see a Changeling twice the size of a normal one. It looked like a normal Changeling has hit the gym 24/7 with the help of steroids. He is fucking massive! You stayed there looking at him in awe of his build. Man what you would give to be as strong as he is.
The giant Changeling stirs you from your thoughts as he swings one of his hoofs at you. You back up just in time but you hit your back against a wall. The Changeling once again swings contacting the right side of your body.
You're flung away from the wall from the sheer force he hit you at. You're unable to feel the pain from the impact as your adrenaline and a whole bunch of other biological shit kicks in. Stumbling to your feet the Changeling hits you again, this time on the left side flinging you back to where you were before.
FUCK! This guy just doesn't stop! You say to yourself as you get up and re-compose yourself much faster this time learning from your mistakes.
"Alright fat ass you want to fight, lets fight." You then proceed to toss your gun on the floor. If you're going to kill this guy your going to be a man not pussy.
With that in mind you take out your now green colored knife. If he is allowed armor then your allowed a melee weapon of some sorts. The Changeling swings again only to have you slide under him. As you slide under him you jab the knife into his belly cutting him length wise front to back. However your combat knife seems to only make a shallow cut.
The Changeling screams in pain when you reach the other side. You quickly stand back up and face your now wounded enemy, his green blood dripping onto the ground. You're quite surprised he's still awake with all that blood loss. The Changeling then proceeds to heal his cut with the same green aurora that you saw Chrysalis use.
"What the fuck!" You say pointing to him healing himself. "Now that's just not fair!" you continue.
The Changeling puts on a smile and looks at you as if to say 'Life's not fair.' This really rustles your jimmies as you now start to look for your gun that you have lazily tossed onto the floor.
With no sign of the M-9 on the floor you turn your attention back to the Changeling that has now taken a swing at you. This catches you off guard as you are flung to the other side of the room. The Changeling slowly makes his way over to you with the same smile upon his face.
You back up until you are sitting up against the back wall. Your hand grazes an object on the floor as you back up. You turn to look at the object and low and behold it's your M-9. The Changeling has yet to notice that you picked up your gun and continues to walk towards you.
Just as the Changeling is about to pound down on your body, you pull out your M-9 and shoot the fucker right in his right eye.
You're rewarded when his green blood paints the ceiling and parts of his brain go flying out the back of his head.
The Changelings body goes limp and falls directly onto you. You struggle to get his body off of you but it's no use. the weight of his body with his armor way surpasses your ability to lift and that's saying something.
As you struggle to get free from under this beast of a Changeling the door that you first entered in from opens up. You can't see the Changelings that enter, however the body on top of you glows green and hovers off of you. You quickly get up and aim down your sights at the large silhouette.
"Don't even try Lorin, I figured out how that gun of yours works." You don't believe any of it and you let out three rounds from your M-9 right at the Changelings head. To your surprise just before impact the bullets glow green and stop in their place. The glow soon fades and the bullets drop to the ground having all their momentum taken away.
"I told you not to try, why must you never listen to reason." The familiar voice states. Your mind is racing as you try to remember who's voice it was. Once your mind is clear from the recent events you finally lay a finger on the name that you were looking for.
"C-Chrysalis?" You state catching your breath as your adrenaline fades and you are left to deal with the pain the last battle has put you through.
"Good job Lorin, you remembered my name." You can see her silhouette tapping her front hooves on the ground in a make shift clapping. "You're persistent you know that? No matter how many guards I throw at you, you just won't die." She says in a impressed tone.
You spit out some blood to the ground. "I told you, fear of death is a strong feeling that has helped the human race achieve great things. No matter how drastically we adapted over the years, we seem to keep that one trait." You say trying to buy you some time to regain what little strength you have left in you.
"I do say you live up to your word Lorin. However there is one thing that you never tell your enemy." She says as she comes closer and you can pick up her facial expressions. She's smiling with anger present in her eyes.
"What may that be?" You ask as you step back from the approaching queen.
"You never tell them your weakness." She states with a evil laugh. "Because now I have a better way to use you and trust me when I say you're not going to like it one bit."
You stare at her for a moment before hearing a slight whistling sound to the right of you. Turning your head you see a rather large piece of black goop with a green aurora around it heading straight for you. With little time to react the black blob hits you in the face and knocks you out cold.
[Lorin's Log, Part One.]
"After that, well, I woke up here in this cell. They feed me once a day with what little they have. The Changeling guards come by my cell every once in a while, either to spit on me or to show me a disgusted expression. I guess if someone imperfect landed in my perfect world I would be disgusted to."
"I admit It I was crying on day one in this cell, knowing that they would either kill me or lock me up here till I die. It hurts, it really does, knowing that you'll never see your family again. Knowing that every one you once loved will never see you again and you will never see them. You'll never sit beside your friends as they brag about their latest achievements."
"It sounds silly but It's the moments when me and my friends chilled at work doing nothing that I'm going to miss the most. The feeling of freedom, the feeling that they will always have your back and you will always have theirs. That night I shed the first tear I have shed in a long time."
"The second night I started to go insane, I'm not going to lie this is after all my 'self reflection'. Thinking of the days I will spend here with no toilet, no sink and no bed. The whole experience just felt so unreal like this was all a dream or a hallucination. I remember attempting to break out that day by digging with my hands through the black goop. The only outcome was chipped fingernails and fatigue."
"The third day which is now, I have been rewiring my helmet to act as a recorder. It's a wonder what a man can do in his free time, given that he has something to fool around with. It took me about three hours to complete and all my knowledge on computer engineering and programming to get it to work."
"However today was the worst of them all by far. I received Information that I'll be heading down to a 'laboratory' for my 'punishment'. The only thing I can think of at the moment is that I'm going down there to be tortured. For why they just don't kill me is far beyond my comprehension."
"I would just like to end this log off in a happy mood as for this entire log has been a depressing reminder of my past failures. I would like to tell my future self to -"
"What're you doing Lorin?" Chrysalis asks in a none to impressed tone.
"I was just talking to myself none of your business. Why the fuck are you in here may I ask?" Lorin states in a strong and calm voice.
"To take you to your punishment." Chrysalis replies sounding more cheerful than usual.
*static*
[End Of Lorin's Log, Part One.]
Lorin's helmet's POV:
Current time...
You shut off your recording ending the log guess that'll be it for today's log. You say in your mind as you pick up your helmet and follow Chrysalis out of the cell and into the hallway. You have to say she has become much smarter than before, as your arms are cuffed behind your back in the same black goop.
The walk to the laboratory was hell. Every time you passed a Changeling they would either spit on you or kick you. There was a few incidence were one of the Changelings tried to kill you but the queen threw him away. The walk kind of reminded you of when a prisoner was sent to be executed and he had to walk to the execution site. Except on earth the fellow cell members would be respectful and keep quiet, here there was no prisoners just you and an angry mob of Changelings.
You arrive at the laboratory a few minutes later. You could hardly call it a laboratory the only thing that looked sciencey to you where the test tubes on the main table. The rest where green pods that had specimens in them.
To your liking the laboratory had no sign of torture equipment. "So why bring me down here again? Do you want another chat?" You say with a disgusted tone.
"No you're here to endure the most painful punishment I can give." Chrysalis's states as she goes over to a Changeling with a lab coat on. You chuckle a bit at the sight of a Changeling wearing a lab coat, but you stop just in time before they both look at you with deadpan expressions.
While the two talk you look around the room for any way to get the black goop off your hands. The most you could think of is biting it slowly off but you soon remember what happened to your fingernails the last time you tried to use your body to destroy the black goop.
The two stop talking and head back over to you, both with evil smiles plastered on their faces. You don't like the looks of this but you guess that you're going to be in a lot of pain very soon. The two Changelings stop in front of you.
"One last chance Lorin, Help me now or endure a pain worse than death itself." You smile and spit on Chrysalis.
"I think that answers your question Chrysalis." You smile as her face turns red with anger and you can practically see the smoke coming off of her body. You might of taken this choice a bit too far you think to yourself.
"Get him in the pod." Chrysalis says trying her hardest no to blow her top. As she commands the other Changeling pushes you towards the only empty pod in the room. You attempt to kick and run but to no avail, Chrysalis just gets more Changelings to counter your strength.
Chrysalis lets out a evil laugh as you near the neon green pod. Your eyes get wider the closer you get to the pod. You have no idea what the pod will do to you but you really do not want to find out. Within seconds the Changelings push you forward and you move through the pod wall like it was water.
You attempt to break free from the pod by pushing your hand up against the pods interior wall. Soon you realize the pod walls are like a one way gate where you can enter but you can't get out. The inside of the pod was no different to the outside other then everything had a green tint to it.
The pod was about the same size as you and you can comfortably lay against the wall. You look outside the pod to see all the Changelings exit the lab including Chrysalis. You think to yourself why would she leave you alone here.
Its not till after the first hour that you start to feel anything. The pod seems to be heating up quite a bit and what seems to be grass starts to grow at the bottom of the pod. Each blade of grass seems to be pointing towards you.
You keep an eye on the grass as it slowly grows in a steady pace. Soon you start to panic as the grass now starts to look a lot like tentacles coming from the ground. Some of the tentacles attach to your legs and arms. You kick and try to rip them off but they seem to be a part of you now.
All you can do is sit there hopelessly as you watch these tentacles attach themselves to various places on your body. One on each leg and arm, one on your forehead and one on your belly. You scream in your pod for any sign of help. Nothing was hurting you it was just so creepy.
Soon you start to get sleepy, you force yourself to stay awake but the temptation is to much. You would make another log to pass the time and keep you awake but you through your helmet at one of the Changelings while they forced you into this pod. With nothing to do you accept the darkness and soon you fall into a deep slumber.
“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.” ― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao