IV

She just stood there, with swarms of people all around her buzzing with activity. Standing still, against the backdrop of flowing energies, created a strange magnetic aura around her. An aura, that kept her safe and protected. An aura that was impenetrable.

Her eyes were moist, a mirror blurred, and if one were to see through them, one would see how much her mind was struggling to escape her conscience. Who could possibly understand the depths of her? Here she was, hypnotized by her own conditioning- a conditioning that did not stop with her, but beyond her.

He had known this silence since he was a boy. It drew him towards her.

She had decided to separate from technology. She had no androlegs to walk faster, no chip to make her remember, no watch to tell time.

The androlegs made him seem offbeat, but they worked wonders when it came to mountaineering-his only passion. The D2021 platinum hind limbs from the DHC (Deliberate handicap community) left him in a class of his own. He had perfected them, and customized them. He had taken great pains to make them deft.

Each time he opened his eyes, there was a new world staring back at him. And suddenly he realized what was going on...he was caught in a dream spiral. A dream in a dream in a dream; it went on and on. Everything he did, he affirmed the dream and made it his reality; only to realize that it was a dream.

Zschwao...Zschwao....the train flew, passing some other ones in the swiftness, so fast, it dwarfed everything else. It dwarfed time. It dwarfed speed...but he silently hoped to himself that maybe he was on the right way, maybe, this journey will take him to the silence that he had longed for so long. so very long.

Trust. Compassion. Effort. Hope. Awareness. Discretion. Love. Intercourse.