Barelly...

When I finally get back to my senses, I was lying on something cold as metal, but smooth and soft as silk. The verry strange sensation making me frown in my sleep. Did I bought some new bed sheets? And... Why did I get to my bed all naked? Trying to open my eyes was so exausting that for a moment I expected to feel sick or hungovered. But I wasn't.

Slowly, my eyes finally opened to a verry stange sight. I wasn't in my bed. I wasn't even in my loft. The strange material I was lying on was a deep kind of purple. Too cold to be velvet, but as smooth and confortable. Verry strange. And frightening.

Fliping myself at great cost, grumbling and whining, I finally got to lay on my back. Throught my still opening eyes, I see the blue sky, wich was making no sence at all. I Looked more, trying to figure out where I was. For, althought I could see the sky, I couldn't see more than a few steps all around me, as some sort of walls prevented me to see further. Some light was still passing throught, but I couldn't see a damn thing. Colors were shifting around those "walls" and reminded me of some stained glass. To make things even weirder, no heat would come from the filtering light landing on my naked skin.

Trying to get back on my feet was a long, painfull and uterly stressfull experience as I stumble over and over again, more frightened with each unsuccessfull atempts. Once finally up (even thought my knees were kinda shaking) I took a few steps, in hope of getting a better hold of my surounding.

The structur, as I was lacking other words to describe it, was about 20 foot long and 10 foot large. A huge block of some sort of grey material was ocupying the verry center of the place. Taking a quick look over it as I spoted my clothes, I rushed toward it, only to find a small glass container filled with water and a wobbling cube looking like jelly. Not even daring to touch it, I just look at it: it was nothing I ever saw. Water, a blue-jelly-thinggy and my clothes. Nothing more as the whole structur was only composed of this "table" of some sort and the purple-smooth (but cold) ground. My still waking-up brain sudently start to run on "full panic" as I slowly understood where I was.

In a jail of some sort. The kind of jail where people are striped naked before being placed under... Under what? Arest? For what? And for god sake where was I..? The questions were spining in my head, answerless, bringing twoo big tears to my eyes. I was alone, in a verry strange jail-looking structure and once again the total lack of sounds hit me. I tryed to scream, but even my own voice wasn't hearable. At this point, my heart was litterally pounding my chest, beating like a mad drummer. I felt to my knees, feeling uterly powerless.

Just as this feeling was hiting me hard enought for me to cry openly, I felt something weird, just like an electric shock on my neck's and throat's skin. It wasn't verry painfull but surpised me so much, if my blader have been full I would have soiled myself. Feeling my neck, I could swear I felt a little metal-like band around it, just like.... a verry thin collar of some sort.

Paniqued and more stressed than I ever was in my entire life, I tryed to slip a finger between my skin and the metal, but it was impossible to even make it slide on my neck. Just like if my skin and the metal-like colar have been melted together. Panic taking the best of me, I tryed to scratch it off with a renewed, frantic strenght, only to leave red strings of blood on my skin, not damaging the damn thing at all in the process.

"What on heart is that? My god where am I? Why?"

My harms felt on my sides as I just let myself fall on the purple material, crying like a baby. Even if the whole experience have lasted only for about fifteen minutes, I was exausted. Panic and stress taking they toll on me as I simply slumber into what seems to be a deept sleep.

When I opened my eyes again, sky was the exact same blue, the structur was the same. I raised my hand to my neck, trying to feel the scratchs I inflicted on my own skin earlier, only to find it totally unmarked and healed. The thin metalic colar was still in place thought.

Feeling panic coming back, I deciced to calm myself first. Crossing my leggs together, I focus all my attention to my breaths and my heart beats, couting them mentally. Slowly but surely enought, the fear was drifted away. After what seems to be hours, I finally opened my eyes again. Fear was still contracting my throat and making my heart beat faster than usual, but at least I wasn't on the edge of pure madness anymore.

Taking a few steps toward the "walls" I touched them for the first time. And it didn't felt like metal, or glass for that mater. It was more like touching some verry big fruit, the "skin" moving a bit under the pressure of my fingers. I tryed to kick it verry hard, but it didn't moved that much. Strangely enought, my unprotected feet wasn't hurted at all, just like if those "walls" where absorbing kinetic energy. Amazing.

Amazing but still, confusing me even more. Struggling to keep my head cool, I heard a faint noise, the verry first since I was awake. Coughting a bit just to make sure, I heard my own breath... I could hear again! A part of one wall was... getting thin. So thin I could see a silouette gradualy apearing. I just had the time to think about my nudity before the wall became so thin I could actually saw long flowing hair surounding a humanoïd head.

I rushed to the center of the structur, grabbing my clothes and shoving them in front of my crotch. Hearing my footsteps again was both strange after all this silence, and soothing as normality seems to get back in place.

Trying to look as harmless as possible, I stood there with my clothes hiding my privates as the wall finish to "disapear" somehow, revealing an opening leading to... another "structur" with the exact same walls... that bounce back when you kick them and can disapear like that... Either I was going crazy or this place was driving me mad...

"Maybe even both" I thinked, as the silouette in front of me reaveal to be a slender, pretty looking woman. I immeditaly spoted what look like a thin silver collar on her neck, before anything else...