It's About Time!

RM- speculative science fiction eBook- a story within a story- Revolutionary Moon!

Day 1 Unknown Location

Waking from a long dream, it feels like it lasted a lifetime. It’s completely dark. Not like the dark of an overcast and moonless night in the middle of the ocean. Wait, have I experienced that kind of night? I don’t know where I am. In fact, I don’t know when I am. Oh God, I don’t even know who I am! Can I move? My sense of self movement is giving me feedback that I can move slowly as if in some liquid and I don’t feel any sense of touching anything. I am not experiencing gravity and am floating but there is no warmth or coldness. No sound either. Wait, now I hear something, a slight swishing in my ear; then a voice inside of my head asks, “Are you awake?” Is that my own thought? I will try answering back and see what happens. What follows is all in my head it seems, but a coherent conversation between two voices. I recognize my own voice, or what some memory or instinct tells me is like my voice and it is expressing my exact thoughts. The other voice is not familiar; it doesn’t sound male or female, old or young, nice or mean.

I am awake, but something is very wrong with me. I cannot make sense of where, when or who I am. Does this mean I am dead?

Not dead now, but you have been in a deep sleep, a kind of suspended animation so it will take some time for things to come back to you.

Ok, so whoever you are, you don’t sound surprised or worried, so it is just a matter of time before this makes sense to me, that I will remember who I am?

“A matter of time;” such a well-chosen phrase. It is about time; always and only about time.