Silence was my greatest friend...
Being alone all day with my thoughts was perfect and peaceful...
I had always been like this since I was younger... As long as I was alone or in my own space, I felt like I could do anything...
Being a person like this brought a lot of problems in my childhood. Soon, my parents beca worried about my behavior, and I ended up seeing a doctor; it seed like I was sick... I did a lot of strange tests, and many days later, two strange n visited my house...
They argued with my parents, and everyone was shouting very loudly... I tried to cover my ears so as not to hear the argunt, but it was in vain... Even muffled, I could still hear so of the phrases:
"The little girl is a genius, the highest IQ recorded in the history of Jyera... You two don’t have the financial ans to provide the care and education she needs..."
"We know that, but we are still her parents; she feels better with us..."
"She is autistic, and you only realized it now, which shows your inability to. You guys, just sign the custody transfer and we’ll take care of her..."
"We know that, but the money you’re offering to take her is too little..."
"So that’s what it’s all about, right?"
After a long discussion, my parents signed the papers, and the two n took . The sudden change made a little uncomfortable, but I soon adapted. As strange as it was, I didn’t miss my parents either.
The reason I adapted so quickly was that I finally had a place of my own, it was a big house, but I only liked to stay in my room, which was also very big, with everything I needed... I had exercise equipnt, two TVs, a computer, and several shelves with many books on all kinds of subjects... Soone would bring food several tis a day, and now and then, so teachers would co too. They were kind and patient, but they didn’t co for long.
Whenever I learned everything they taught , they left, and new teachers replaced them...
The classes I liked the most were the ones that involved calculus, and the ones I liked the least were the physical education ones. But among them, I really liked so martial arts, especially one that taught how to throw objects as self-defense. I beca very good at that too...
Occasionally, I was also taken out, it was sothing my doctor said I should do... So of the places were fun, like amusent parks and shopping malls. I was always accompanied by many other children during these outings, but I didn’t like those monts. I always felt anxious and suffocated around other people and public places... In addition, there were always their looks, it was as if I was being asured or judged by them... Or was it all sothing I just imagined? Or sothing I created to justify not being around them?
Whatever it was, whenever I asked to go back to my ho, they would let and bring back imdiately... The years went by, and I also continued to grow. My relationship with the people who visited also changed. They were no longer professors, they were people with so kind of academic or scientific problem. And whenever they visited , they expected to solve it. Every problem they brought to fascinated a lot, and I continued living like that until one day I was forced to move again.
Moving was always sothing that bothered a lot. I liked where I lived, my routines, my schedules, and everything around that was organized by .
So I was quite stressed about all my new changes, especially the various physical tests and procedures that they said were necessary for where I was going...
But I was also surprised. When all the training and travel were over, I was in the sa room as before. At least that’s what I thought until I saw the different patterns on the wall paint... And when I opened my bedroom window, what I saw scared , but also fascinated a lot, a round blue world with several familiar continents was visible...
I now knew where I was: On the Jyera Space Station!
I was smart enough to know, since I was a child, that the governnt was the one taking care of , and I knew that "solving problems" was my "job" and also a way to repay them for their care. But I didn’t care about the ans or the motives... I liked what I did and I was satisfied that they always t my wishes... So I didn’t care about the new "ho" and continued to help with everything they asked.
The Great Colonization, that’s what everyone called this project. Jyera would travel through a Warp Gate to a new star... My job was to follow this new group and support them in the colonization. And I was ready for it. I confess that I was also excited about all the new research and studies that we would do on this new star.
Just the initial data collected by the machines sent to the planet Chronos, one of the eight planets of this new solar system, brought fascinating data! That world had phenona that we can barely explain; it was full of life, and a huge number of new elents were discovered. The future of Jyera’s science was bright!
But all my excitent turned into anguish and anxiety, because, a few days before the Great Colonization began, I felt a strange change in my body, as if my strength had increased slightly; it was not a gradual increase, it was instantaneous.
As I clenched my fist, testing this strange and sudden increase...
A blue screen appeared before my eyes... It showed a lot of scary information, and along with that information was a huge amount of missions that I was supposed to complete if I wanted to survive...
[BEEP]
[System Calibrating...]
[System Starting...]
Jyera Apocalypse System
Type: Symbiosis
User: Anna
Age: 23 years old
Profession: Astronaut
Academic degree: PHD in Applied Space Physics.
Skills:...
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