Wait wait, back up, back up please, look at yourself for a bit.


    “What for?”


    I want to know how you look like of course, what else for?


    There’s a mirror here too! Quickly, look at yourself!


    Although, from the corner of AZ’s eyes Ray had seen the mirror, he couldn’t focus on it clearly, since he didn’t control the body, that naturally included the eyes as well.


    Ray was dying of curiosity, but AZ mercilessly left the room without a backward glance. He coldly commented,


    Right my ass! The world isn’t fair to begin with, no point fighting for fairness, so you might as well show me your face.


    “stop.”


    Ray knew he was always too lost in his inner world to pay attention to the outside. It was always like that, his thoughts took up too much space to observe anything around him. He realized, that even though he was curious about this dystopian worldRay had already convinced himself it was a dystopian world—he was too busy imagining it, and then trying to persuade AZ, to pay attention to AZ’s home. What an oversight. So, he finally focused all his attention to observe AZ’s home. It was clean, neat and tidy, but he found the many plants around a bit out of place. Ice and plants didn’t really go well together, did they?


    Why do you have so many plants?


    “I don’t, plants are everywhere.”


    “Is that a microwave? It looks like one, and functions like one by heating up food, but it doesn’t behave like one! How come your food is evenly warm? I’ve never heard of a microwave like that, and you only put it in for half a minute, how is that possible? What kind of godlike microwave is that? It can’t be a microwave, impossible.”


    “It’s a food-heater, it’s natural it heats up the food evenly.”


    “You don’t understand! This food-heater of yours is like the microwave we had where I come from. But microwaves never heat up food evenly, the outer parts are always piping hot, burning your mouth, while the inside is still freezing cold. And then, you have this food-heater, and you act as if it’s all natural, but it isn’t! How come your microwave is this godly?”


    “I don’t know what to tell you other than this microwave food-heater of yours sounds lacking,”


    You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.


    “Lacking… that’s an understatement. Let me tell you…”


    ame Ray’s sudden wail.


    “What is it now?”


    This… this place…! What is this place? It’s so weird. We are underground, yes? But it is like a fucking jungle! There are plants everywhere, every-absolutely-fucking-where, and they are all so blindingly colorful. And creepy birds, I feel like they are watching us, it’s like that conspiracy theory where pigeons are the surveillance of the government. And even though there are so many birds, everything is so clean. How is everything so clean? Everything is so bright and well-lit.


    And that… calling it a lift feels like injustice! It was huge, and it went up and up for so long, with so many people joining. But it wasn’t huge first, you stepped into a normal lift, and by the time we arrived, it was a giant lift? How did that even happen? And then you took that thing, and swish swish, it was so fast, and we are already here. And there were so many people everywhere, and everyone is so stunningly beautiful and strikingly handsome.


    I had thought that with weird names, and looking at you being so cold all the time, everyone was going to be like that, but no! Only you are like this, people seem bright and happy, they talk and laugh. This place seems amazing. I thought it was a dystopia, but it clearly is a utopia, even though we are still underground. Is this whole place underground? Is this your school? I can’t wait to see what’s your school is like and meet your friends.


    Woooaaah, this guy is so warm and bright like the sun. Wait, do you even know what a sun is if you live underground? Well, the sun is like… this guy. What does he mean you look lively? Is he being sarcastic? He must be, but his face and voice sounds so honest, he’s like a puppy I want to pet. Damn, why am I in your deathly cold mind instead of hanging out with that guy? He seems so much more fun. Woah, I didn’t think his smile could be any more lovely, look at him, how can you not smile back? How can you be this unfeeling and unmoved? Quick, give me control of your body, so I can smile back at him.