Children of Bena
As the dwelling on the field continued, we gazed into the black heaven which was no more colorful than our years to come. The smell of failure came to me as an awaited and relaxing fragrance, destined to fail, the unknown and the nothingness unfolding in my mind and presence. Laying besides me, for her it was the same, destined to fail. Lying. As the dwelling on the field continued….
Out of the silence, while I was lost in the emptiness of it all, that emptiness got interrupted.
"You should be moving" she told me.
"I'm trying to enjoy possibly the final moments of my life, when I run I feel that I'm spilling the final moments that I'm able to enjoy" I said.
"Don't be such a fatalist Mata, you can still make it out of Bena if you wouldn't take so many fucking detours".
I appreciated the enthusiasm that she showed regarding my situation; the fact of the matter was that even if I managed to escape this goddamn planet I was doomed anyway. Those who became space nomads were forever lost in the memories and knowledge of the other ones that were able to stay together. Nobody is able to survive in the dark and cold pool of space and all the unknown nightmares that kept. In the our world, solitude kills faster than any cancer.
"What about your boyfriend?" I asked her "Does he want me dead too?"
"I seriously doubt it" she said, "he wasn't that angry when he looked at its failed results, I think that he just wants to speak with you."
"Really? Well... Net has always been a reasonable guy, it's good that you're with him."
I smiled at her, but her face was full of confusion and sadness after I uttered that sentence. I don't know if she was also in love with me but at least she cared about me.
"Mata... I can't believe that this is happening to you, I can't believe that you're in this situation, why did you accept the job if you weren't able to pull it off?"
"I WAS ABLE TO PULL IT OFF!" I shouted at her, she looked at me, biting her lips.
"Someone got me screwed, that wasn't a common preprogrammed system of security, someone knew what I was up to, that system was prepared to counter all of my codes".
I knew it from the moment that I started to enter in the first screens, I had just a terrible feeling after it was already too late to back off, I have been hacking EP systems for the last 4 years, and I have been able to hack the final exam results 3 consecutive times, the security system shows improvement over the years but nothing I can't handle, but this year, it was different, it was modified by a human.
"I was screwed before I even began the job"
"So you're telling me that someone in school set you up?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying and I want to know who, I want to know who bested my abilities"
She just stared at me more worried than ever.
"You really want to die here, don't you?" she asked.
"Becoming a nomad equals death, staying here equals death. I'm already dead" I replied.
"And you're creating paranoid delusions in the process, no one updates or modifies the security systems of Educational Palaces, the only ones who are capable of doing such a thing are the engineers who designed it, and they're long gone."
She had a point, the Educational Palaces were magnificent school buildings that were abandoned many years ago, however, we, the students, still attended to classes. No professors to be seen just artificial, holographic ghosts of them. Their systems were never updated and they always taught the same things generation after generation. The Educational Palaces remain the same with the passing of time. The technology in which they were built is almost ancient, only a geek like me has studied that type of obsolete linguistics to be able to understand them; I found the books that taught me such skills in an abandoned ship, close to the Alic Sea. I burned those books after I learned what I needed to learn. I was the only one familiar with its system, the only one capable of hacking the final test results. At least, that's what I thought but I have a tendency of underestimating people. Now that I think about it, if you would have lived my life you would have that same flaw to.
"Wait a minute" I was starting to put the pieces together. I stood up and began walking around in small circles in the grass. "Pretty much every one of my clients wants me dead, correct?" I asked.
"You told a bunch of guys that you would be able to hack probably the most important test of their lives at a ridiculously expensive price and then you failed. Yee, what is our friend Mrs. Logic telling us Mata?"
Oh!, my beloved Danna, I had just the perfect comeback to that.
"Ok, so we can conclude that everyone is pretty mad at me. Net was one of my clients for this job." She quickly stared at me, she knew where I was going. "Can you please repeat to me what was his reaction when he knew that I fucked everything up?"
She looked at the grass.
"You son of a bitch" she said laughing while nodding her head. "So you think that Net was the one who got you screwed?"
"You said that he wasn't mad at me, If I were him I would be pretty fucking mad at me."
I just looked at her while smiling.
"I'm just repeating what our friend Mrs. Logic is telling us Danna."
"Well, stop listening to that bitch!" She stood up. "Net would never betray one of his friends. You talk like if you didn't know him."
"The only thing I know is that we don't know no one at all, plus, you said that he wanted to speak with me, isn't that the case?"
"Mata, just stop that train of thought of yours. It's going to lead you nowhere."
I was starting to hear some motojets in the forest, approaching the field we were on.
"Why does he want to speak with me Danna?"
Danna listened to the motojets approaching to.
"Shit!, Mata they're coming!"
"Why does he want to speak with me, Danna?!"
"Damn it Mata I don't know!, he has been behaving so fucking strange these days, I think he wants your help."
"Strange? strange how?"
They were just a few miles away.
"Get fucking moving!"
"Where is he?"
"I dont' know"
"You're his girlfriend and you don't know?"
The motojets were about to enter the field.
"Fuck, I'm sorry Mata."
She began to run away to the opposite direction and she hid in to the woods. I did the same but I didn't stop running and I encounter a slope. It was the first time that I was running on that kind of environment. Hell, it was like the third time that I ran in my life. So, I image that you can guess what happened next. Every single and irrelevant little rock had the power to destroy the balance of my feet completely. There was a waterfall near me and I just kept rolling towards it. I was praying to the gods that I didn't believe in, to stop the fall, but their existence disappointed me once more and Mr. Gravity made me pay my lack of balance by escorting me to the lair of Mrs. Waterfall.
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