Henry was drawn by something, at first e wasn't sure what it was but then he suddenly lost consciousness, even as he lost awareness he could feel like his soul was being dragged somewhere.
"Huh"
I can't feel my body, everything is dark, why is this happening, wasn't this some kind of game, I'm scared that something bad happened.
"Henry?"
I heard Derek, is he In this place? I try talking to him, but I can't.
"You need to create a body" Derek says
What, how would I do that?
"This is a very special game, we are creators and the players of this small world"
This doesn't help much, but it's a little disappointing, I was wondering if could shoot some zombies or build a house.
"Try to imagine a character to use here, you will need to enter in my world"
Welp, I'm surprised by the complexity of this simulation, I try imagine my body but I can't remember how I look, it's been years since I looked myself in the mirror... That's bad, maybe something simple like a spirit?
"That's a weird choice, but you do you"
I again feel draw by something, and then like switch everything become light.
"Gah" I gasp
"Calm down, you just entered my world"
I still a bit out, but I feel my senses coming back, and as I look around I see him.
"It's that you Derek?" I ask
A beautiful girl with a small stature looking at me, she shrug.
"We can create any character, we can imagine"
"But why would you be small girl?"
"Why don't you look at yourself"
I'm not sure what I was thinking when I created this body, but everything is like a shade while my body is a small flame.
"Well, I don't really know many things nowdays, I pass most of my time working"
"You could become anyone, even characters from games and stuff"
"Okay, now where are we?"
This place is kinda weird, it looks empty, there are no walls and the white space just endless go in all directions.
"My room, it's a small world that connect with the other words I created"
"Um, so you can play whatever you want if you can imagine?"
The little girl give a small grim and start walking towards a door in the room, I did forget to ask about his character but my curiosity is at peak when he ask.
"Would you like to play in this game house again?"
"Wait, do you mean!"
He opens the door, in the other side is the game house like I remember, it's been years so I can't remember all details, but the nostalgia hits like a truck, as I started to recover from the shock, the small girl walk inside the scene and become Derek, just like I remember when the war just ended, we would escape from work to play games together.
"What are you waiting for, come in"
I slowly move towards the door, the sensation as I pass the door is like another dimension, my body is different again.
"I recreated your body as I remember, let's play together for old times sake"
I almost cried, but I hold everything in, man shouldn't cry, I follow Derek towards one of the tables full of computers and gadgets for games.
"Do you want to play Minecraft, or Call of Duty zombies?"
"Was you hearing my thoughts?"
"No, I just really want to play those games"
We sit and start the computer, it's just like I remember, we keep playing for a while until I ask Derek.
"One hour is not enough"
"I know right, but we can accelerate time with the technology we have here"
Derek stand up and walk towards some kind of interface in the door we came from, I follow him watching with curiosity.
"This is the time we spend here" he point towards a timer with 31:20m
"And if we want to speed up time inside the simulation there are some risk to it, as this still prototype in development" he point towards a warning sign
I hear and read:
The use of acceleration time can have harmful effects like migraine and seizures, it's recommended to use it with care and slowly getting used to the speed before trying using higher levels of acceleration.
"Well I expected something like that, how much can you speed up time?"I ask
"I can afford up to 10x the speed, but I only did this one time, and I got a light headache for the rest of the day"
"Oh my god, this is actually impressive, how do you speed up time?"
"Here"
Derek put his finger in the button within the warning sign, the sign become a slide, for a moment I hesitate as if this hit me with a heavy migraine I won't be able to work.
"Wait Derek, it's my first time here so we should use the minimum... Derek?"
At this moment I notice Derek is frowing, looking at the slide like something is not right.
"The slide is different from last time" he responds
"So you don't know how much the time acceleration will happen?"
"I'm not sure, let me test a bit"
At this point he start pushing the slide to the absolute limit, this scares the shit out of me... but nothing strange happens.
"What are you doing, for a moment I was thinking you would speed up time"
"They changed the limit speed time"
"Oh, what was the previous limit?"
"10 times the speed"
"And what is the actual limit?"
"100 times the speed"
This number actually gives me goosebumps, if 10x is bad, imagine 100x, this is very dangerous.
"I think you should just take your hand off the slide" I tap him on the shoulder
"I can't, I'm paralyzed" he says, frozen in place like a statue
"What! are you joking with me, right now?leave the slide alone" I try pushing him away from the slide
Honestly when I think about it, that was probably a huge mistake on my side, since the moment he took his hand off the slide, my mind goes blank...