Do You Know What I'm Seeing?
I went upstairs once again and what I saw there was.. Chilling, at best.
For a moment, I panicked and the primitive part of my conscience concluded it was a ghost. However, the sophisticated part had a more sensible explanation: A hologram.
The hologram part felt right, and before I could think, I found myself approaching it. To be more specific, "it" had a female face, with dark brown hair, cut short to where it barely touched her shoulders, and her hair covered her right eye and then swooped to the back to reveal the rest of the right side of her face, and a small amount of the apple of her right cheek. The colors were fuzzy but I could tell her skin was slightly tanned, and she had pine green eyes. She spoke with light Brooklyn accent.
She seemed to be arguing with someone away from view, and a few seconds later, another female came into the picture. This one, with a British accent. She had dark brown hair as well, but with bronze highlights, and a hint of dark blonde hair. It was tied into a messy bun with the hair starting to fall apart. She had bangs, as well, that hung over her face, but not enough to hide her features.
By now, the imagery had improved in quality, and I could tell that she had darkness around her eyes, like she was an insomniac. She was very pale also, almost sheet white, as if she hadn't seen the sun in days. Which only highlighted the darkness around her eyes. I looked a little closer and noticed she had hazel brown eyes. She was also very frail.
This was the conversation:
Female One: Cosima, you're making it too easy for her. I mean, she found that house in 30 minutes. Maybe less! Not to mention that stupid recording was a quite a hint you dropped.
"Actually, it wasn't... Wait, Cosima? That Cosima?" I said quietly.
Cosima (Female Two): Nicole, this experiment has already taken a toll on her mental state from the beginning. If I don't make it easy, the time it'll take for her to recover will extend substantially.
Nicole: Yeah, yeah, yeah.. What's the point of the experiment then? It's supposed to test her mental strength, and you're making it easy.
"Nicole seems like a pain. I don't know her, do I? Eh, I probably do... Crap." I muttered bitterly.
Cosima: For once, can you leave me to my work? I know what I'm doing, Nicole, I actually have experience with this!
Nicole: Yeah, being the mad scientist you are. No wonder you were banned from that lab, you can't follow orders.
Cosima: Just shut up and get out!
She then shoved her out, which was quite impressive given her fragile structure, and I couldn't help but laugh at Nicole's face when she did, which was both infuriated and mostly surprised at the outburst.
Cosima then turned to walk back to her desk, but in the process she saw me laughing and then sighed, exasperatedly, before saying: "Great! Something glitched and Deidre saw us. What the hell did you do now, Nicole?" She came closer to me and I heard a switch clicking. Then she winked and the hologram disappeared.
The floor began to break away, the walls disintegrated and in a matter of seconds, I found myself standing on a small area of wood. Nothing but black surrounded me, I looked down and my feet had started to fade. Now the wood I was standing on had disappeared and I fell into the darkness.