Prologue

    Life, death. It's all the same thing. people fear the ugly truth and praise the beautiful lie. Some don't want what's in the Beautiful lie and seek refuge in the ugly truth. Death is a superstition. No one knows what happens after life so they fear death. They come up with happy ending like Heaven and make children fear being bad through Hell but how can human know something they've never seen?

    Nobody questions these things now. Maybe our ancestors had these thoughts but only people who cares about these things are the people who notice what is outside. Smog killing the once beautiful Earth and killing anyone who is careless enough to be outside without proper gear and guard.

    The year is 2083. Sky full of smoke and disease, ocean full of plastic and shards of glass, land full of trash and wasted items. Ellie Burrowsen's one of the few people who go outside anymore. She's definitely inhaling disease but she doesn't care, as long as she find something interesting in the old dump, she'll be fine. Little does Ellie know that what happens next will change her life forever. She'll never ever be able to go back to her old life.

    Down the rabbit hole down to another life she might've lived, to change this life is to change her future. Perhaps instead of her mom neglecting her, she'll have a mother and father who both look and see her brilliant, that is, if she manages to get back to the life Ellie is living now.

    Her head gets clouded as she wakes up in a very fancy room. Ellie sees a small child that looks about no older than eight or nine years of age. He shouts excitedly and Ellie looks around the very fancy room and drifts back to sleep.

    In and out of sleep. Each time she wakes up she hears chattering around her bed. Once in a while someone crying and weeping comes into her room. What does she do? She can barely even open her eyes, how did she get here?

    Ellie's head is full of static like noises. It keeps waking her up and bothering her. She keeps hearing a robotic voice start when she's awake and abruptly stop when she manages to get back to sleep.

    Get up! She yells at her body but this time, not even her eye's work. How is she supposed to get back to her home when she can't even move? GET UP! GET UP! GET UP! *She continues to try and command her body but it's like everything is working against her.

    "Help... me..." Ellie finally said something. Not something useful, but still something. She hears the rushing of people around her, most of those unknown people are crying perhaps out of fear, maybe out of joy? Well how is Ellie going to get out of here? No one is helping her.

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