Ana woke up with a start and looked around, confused. She couldn’t comprehend for a few minutes whether she had woken up from a dream, or was this a dream? And then her eyes fell on the clock. It did not matter what was real and what was not anymore. She was running an hour late, and if she did not reach the office in 20 minutes, she would lose the pay for yet another day!
She somehow got ready and opened the door to leave but was not prepared for what lay on the other side of the door. Ana just stood there and looked around. She pinched herself and cried out loud. Is it possible for us to feel pain while asleep? Maybe she got her period, and this is a PMS nightmare of some sort? Whatever it was, something was wrong for sure.
Ana had attracted a suited man’s attention towards herself with her cry. He was standing on the other side of the sky, which should otherwise have been her building hallway. She lived on the ground floor, and the suited man was now crossing the sky road to reach her. Ana was scratching her head, unable to make sense of anything.
The suited man was standing in front of her now and blabbering something as if every day he had to explain some idiot about whatever this version crossover glitch was. From whatever little Ana could comprehend, given that she was desperately trying to keep herself steady on her own feet, the suited man was called Tanis. He was a damage control guy of sorts.
When Ana finally could concentrate on whatever this Tanis said, she gathered that there was some sort of a bug in the system. Her brain seemed to be overworked. She was thinking about the study about us living in a computer simulation that she had read about a few days back. But who was the creator? And then who created the creator? What about Tanis? Where and how did he come into the picture? Were there others like him?
Tanis seemed to have been reading her mind because there he was standing, simply smiling from ear to ear, God he is so cute! Okay, he blushed! He can definitely read minds, and Ana could not make herself stop thinking. Ana was feeling embarrassed now. Thankfully, Tanis decided to bring Ana out of her misery by politely acknowledging that this was all way too much information to digest all at once. He then suggested that she should sit and take a moment to process.
Meanwhile, he gave her a red pill and a glass of water. He explained it would help her relax. And that it indeed did, because Ana instantly felt all the thoughts silence themselves. The last thing she heard was Tanis telling someone that the situation had been taken care of and they can restart the system for the day.
And then the next moment, Ana felt a jerk and opened her eyes, confused. She was in bed and remembered fragments of a weird dream. She couldn’t comprehend what it was about and the other details. And then her eyes fell on the clock, and it was 8:40 a.m.
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