it's like seeing but without eyes.

Cave johnson awoke with a start, he had been having nightmares about a strange labyrinth sometime in the future ever since the interview with Caroline... Caroline... Somehow just thinking about her made him feel better, he might as well drop by for a visit.

Caroline was already up making herself some coffee when Cave appeared at the door. all aperture employees has small apartments that doubled as a workspace, they needed staff monitoring everything 24/7. she let her boss in and had him wait on the couch while she got them some coffee, she walked back in holding two mugs.

Caroline sighed heavily, "Cave, its five o-clock in the morning. why are you here?"

"I don't know" cave responded. "I just needed to talk to you"

"about what exactly?"

"I figured i would just make it up as i went along... it seems to be working now"

"you are a very strange person, Mr. Johnson"

"your shift hasn't started yet, plus its 5:00 in the morning, you can call me cave"

"fine. Cave, you're weird"

"I get that one a lot"

Caroline got up from the black leather couch to gaze out the window of her apartment, hers was a special, larger room that looked out on the cavern with all the large steel and asbestos testing spheres.

"amazing, ain't it?" cave said suddenly standing next to her.

"I left home at fifteen to follow this dream" he said, thinking back to the early days of aperture. "in fact, aperture was a shower curtain business up until 1947"

"really"

"yup, in 1943 i founded Aperture Fixtures, we supplied state of the art shower curtains to homes all across the country, plus the military"

"why would the military need experimental shower curtains?"

"its becau- ... I don't actually know..." he said, confused "but anyway, in 1944 I had enough money to buy this salt mine, three years after that, I started broadening my view of science, and renamed the place Aperture Science"

Caroline glanced out the window, a new addition to the facility was being built, the first wall was marked with a giant 1951 on it. this was Apertures golden age.

"that was a nice story, Cave, but you should really go get some sleep now"

"alright, i will"

"good night, Mr. Johnson"

"It's morning" he corrected, closing the door behind him.