Boris opened his eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling for a few seconds. The woman named Nadia touched his forehead and said, “Boris. You are fine now.” He looked at her and said, “Why did she choose me?” She said, “Don’t worry anymore. You tried but …” Boris yelled at her and said, “She doesn’t have the plan! Sara does!”
I gasped and I said, “Isn’t Sara me though?”
Boris lifted himself up from the leaning chair and stared at me. He said, “Yes and no.”
I said, “I don’t get it.”
He said, “They stored the data in a part of your mind that induces hallucinations and creates ridiculous unbelievable scenarios. You ended up creating Sara in your mind as an escape from reality.”
I said, “But how did you know that?”
He said, “Since we were young, you imagined that you had a different life and never accepted reality. I remember that they always took you out of class for two or three days to conduct therapy on you. Don’t you remember?”
Why was everything he was saying seemed unrealistic and foreign to me?
He added, “It doesn’t seem that you remember anything, but it looks like the therapy worked. You stopped day dreaming and saying crazy things, but you kept it hidden well it seems.”
He looked at the others in the room and said, “They must have tried many times to find that part in her mind. Yes, it has a high defence and it’s perfect. Sara is powerful and no force can get through, but unless, hmm.”
The bearded man said, “What are you thinking Boris?”
Boris shook his head and said, “Never mind.” He then stood up, removed all the wires stuck on his body and said, “Lina. We will keep you hidden. No one should access your mind anymore. Not even us.”
I wasn’t sure if I felt safe or more scared. So Sara wasn’t real? I made her up as a defence mechanism?
I started crying and finally said, “I want it to end. Please.”
Boris came closer and hugged my tightly. Why was he sincere, sad and afraid? Why was he still hugging me?
The bearded man sarcastically said, “I don’t think it’s the time to live out your desires Boris.”
Boris let go of me and looked at him.
The man said, “We need that plan somehow.”
Boris stared at him and didn’t say anything.
The man continued, “We can’t act on our own.”
Boris sighed and said, “Humans are dying. They can’t figure out how to recover from their mistakes without the help of machines.”
The man loudly said, “And then what? Watch this destruction happen before our eyes and not do anything!”
Boris sighed and said, “Maybe things have to be destroyed completely in order for new life to begin again.”
The man said, “What are you saying Boris? Are you agreeing with this plan to destroy the machines?”
Boris said, “No. I don’t agree with it, but I won’t let them use humans as weapons either.”
I was confused and torn between everything. I slowly kneeled on the ground and said, “Maybe they have been implanting this plan inside my head for years and used my delusions as a way to keep it hidden. That’s why I don’t remember who did it and when. Sara tried to tell me that I must kill her in order for it to stop. Maybe if I kill her, the plan will reveal itself.”
Boris quickly kneeled down and laid his hand on my shoulder and said, “They want you to do that to kill you. It’s a final protocol to destroy all data.”
My eyes widened, I tried to talk and finally said, “How do we get rid of her then?”
He said, “I don’t really know. You made her up and you can unmake her.”
I said excitedly, “That’s it!”
Boris smiled and said, “Sometimes, you think of a solution instantly when fed simple data. You may even be smarter than me too.” He winked at me and said, “You can’t do it with your head bandaged like that. You need to rest. You have a small but inevitable war ahead of you.”