During the next few days I am getting around by myself. My body is recovering from my time during my imprisonment and my subsequent escape. Kiera seems to more appreciative of my presence here than I am. It is likely from living isolated these last few months. I am quite committed to her into finding out what happened to the others and to figure out where we are being held captive, if this is captivity.

While we are here, I want to be as helpful as I can, so I have slowly started to help Kiera tend to the gardens. Gardening has been very therapeutic for me. It has given me a chance to step outside and enjoy the warm glow of the daylight on my skin. The freedom gives me such an emotional high. I was locked up for such a long time with no contact with anyone else other than my captors. I feel happy and comfortable at this moment although I should be more worried. Why am I here? How is it possible that there can be another Kiera Cameron? Where are we? But I will try to figure the answers to those questions.

The fresh fruit and vegetables from these gardens provides us with some of the most remarkable meals. In 2077, we never had anything quite as delicious as what is being grown here. I am amazed at the tastes of the fruits, you can pick a strawberry off the vine and eat it right there. Gardening also gives me time to talk to Kiera and she asks me about my life at home.

Kiera asks "What was life like where you come from?"

"I was a law enforcement officer, but there is little crime in my time. The criminals are tracked down and prosecuted rather quickly." I respond back to her.

"How can you track criminals so fast to protect everyone?"

"Officers are implanted with technology that links us to a computer system that alerts us to threats. We are also provided with the best technology to help us with our job"

"It sounds like you have much more advanced technology where you came from than my home," says Kiera.

"I thought it was very peaceful, but some of the worst criminals in our time kept us busy. They would perform terrible things like blowing up buildings to make a point."

"I guess there are bad people everywhere."

"I thought we doing good work, but we never seemed to be done finding crimes perpetrated"

"Did people report crimes to the officers?"

"No? Our technology would track peoples movements and when something happened the computer system would predict where they would go."

Kiera exclaims, "That does not sound like freedom, it sound like a police state."

"But everybody was living a good life."

"Not everybody was happy if you still have criminals"

"Maybe, but we were trying to make life better for everyone."

"Who was making life better for everyone?"

I look at her puzzled and say "I am not quite sure who was making all the decisions that the officers were acting on."

Kiera has left me questioning my own place in my society. I have always believed in what I have done, but maybe she is right. I tell Kiera "Some of the people that we were told were the very worst of society orchestrated a jail break and I ended up in 2012 because of technology that I had never seen before."

"But I thought the police were working with the most advanced technology."

"I may have been mistaken, but I don't know where they got hold of technology with that much power. But then similar technology put me here with you."

Kiera smiles at me, "Yes, it did. Maybe the same technology brought me here, but I never saw anything with such power as you talk about."

"What is life like in your society?"

Kiera says "Most people have computers and telephones that we can talk to other people with, but I don't think the computers are as advanced as you talk about in your city."

"What did you do for entertainment?"

"We would usually get together with friends and family. We would talk and play board games with each other."

I quizzically ask Kiera, "What is a board game?"

"There were many games, they were a mini-competition on a small flat board. Usually the winner was able to complete the task that was laid out in the rules first or the quickest."

"People enjoyed doing this?"

Kiera giggled and said "It was fun, it brought me closer to my family as it was something we did often. Everybody had a game they enjoyed and that they could win. Maybe we can build a board game from some stuff that we have."

"I think I would enjoy that." as I smile approvingly at Kiera.

We finish filling the bucket we brought out to the garden and head back into the house with our freshly picked produce.