He rushes in my direction. I jerk my body expecting to get hit, but that doesn't happen. This Guy grabs at my shoulders and stares at my face intensely. His grip tightening on my flesh. Our eyes lock, filling me with ease .

“It is you. Fuck where have you been. Do you need help?” He looks me over and waves his hands in front of my face. Slapping at them and trying to move away. Ending up falling in the process.

“So he does speak English”. .

“What do you mean”

“He hasn't so much as whimpered or groaned since he was let go a few hours ago”

“They must of fucked with his brain. He was always a bit screwy”

“What are you doing with him”

“Trying to find somewhere to stash him, and since he is your friend I think our work here is done”

“What’s with the attitude. We have all been in a similar position. We should help each other not treat each other like a burden”

“Yep we are all in the same boat and that boat didn't just hit an iceberg but the engine exploded while pirates attacked”.

“That’s the spirit, keep positive”

The new guy picks me up. I thought about stopping him but the exhaustion was hitting me harder now. I get up with his help and he starts to guide me away. I look back to see if my companions are following us. As soon as we are through the opening the lady presses a symbol on the wall and they fall out of sight. Where are they going? Shouldn't they be with me?

Since my last companions led me somewhere that ended with my pain going away. I figure I should stick with this new companion. There is this sense of familiarity with him. But like with pretty much everything else it is a shadow of a thought just out of my reach.

He continues leading me along. The only thing to do is look around and be amazed at how large these places are and how similar they are to one another. We eventually head to another opening in the wall. I figure we would be going up or down like with the last one. Before even entering it, I become aware of the space inside. It wasn't like the room that took me up and down. There are crevasse in them along the walls. Some of them contain people.

He takes me in and places me into one of these crevasses. wow it is comfortable. The soft yet firmness of it molds around the parts of my body it came in contact with. Nothing like the ground I was on before. Oh and bonus, no one is making noise in here. That is until my new companion starts.

“Dimitri, what the hell is wrong with you?” he is looking right at me. Extremely close to my face. Are all these noises directed at me? No, that doesn't make much sense, there are too many of them. Maybe it's just this guy. “You look like shit. Get some sleep so we can talk later”. He pushes me down a bit against the padding till I am laying down. My eyelids are open and close slowly. Staying closed longer each time.

Unconsciousness never fully takes me. I keep my eyelids shut, but I am always aware of my surroundings. Annoyingly aware. People get up and leave, then new people come in to lay down. Every time someone moves it jars me into awareness.

For a flicker of a moment I slip away and I know who I am. Excited, I try to hold on and focus on it just to make it fade faster. It just disappears.

Still on padding that is in the crevasse of the wall. I try to search my memories, a bit scared that I won't have any again. But I remember waking up before in pain. Come to think of it I remember being in that position several times in my life. Most of them I was laying on something like this padding. At least I know my life didn't start when I awoke on the floor. Is that good or bad?

Even though the padding is comfortable I feel restless. I prop myself up with my legs over the side. There is this emptiness inside me. I sit there pondering everything that happened to me when I hear “hey look who's awake”. To be fair, by the time my companion says this I am able to ponder my entire memory about a dozen times. There isn't much after all.

“You didn't sleep long. Surprising. Most people sleep for hours if not all day after they are released.” While he was making noises, Noticing it was just the two of us in this space. That combined with the fact he was looking at me I concluded that noise was for me. But it is still nonsense.

He is holding something and gesturing to me. “Rations are pretty thin on this level but we all pitched in”. He moves the object around in front of me as though he expects me to do something. It is a container that has these pellets. I get this instantaneous yearning and disgust from them.

“I know they aren't appetizing but they will keep you alive”. He picks up a pellet and puts it in his mouth. I watch him move his mouth around and his throat move. “See they are 100% edible”. He grabs another and presses it against my lips. “Come on, open up” wiggles it around but I resist.

“Open up the hanger”. My mouth opens up out of my control. He places the pellet into my mouth. Let it linger there for a moment. A rather unpleasant sensation formed on my tongue and I spit the pellet out.

He makes a noise and his whole upper body rumbles. I look at him puzzled. Why doesn't he spit out the one he put into his mouth. Maybe different pellets had different sensations. So I pick up one and place it into my mouth, hoping for different results. Nope it was the same. I was about to spit it out but I can't, something is stopping me. Thinking about what he did. Maybe that will change the sensation. I grind it down with the hard parts of my mouth….my teeth. The unpleasant sensation intensifies for a moment. I am about to spit it out again when it sort of dissolves. Then my neck made a motion and everything in my mouth enters my body.

I feel an urge to squint at him. Which I do. He just looks right back at me with his eyebrow raised. Becoming aware of an emptiness inside me fading away. I weigh my options. I could remain feeling empty or I could suffer that unpleasant sensation in my mouth.

Figuring the unpleasant sensation was temporary and I know no other way to end the emptiness, it would be best to put more pellets in my body. I start to fill my mouth with a lot of them. Hoping the sensation will be quick and I can end it all sooner. But I have trouble doing the neck thing.

“I think you’ll need some water”. With his other hand my companion produces another container. This one was taller and I sense something not solid inside it. He puts it to his mouth and takes the substance into him. Then he tries to do the same to me. The substance filled my mouth and oozed out a bit. I quickly do the neck thing and my mouth is clean. Bonus the sensation from the pellets is gone.

I take the other container and repeat what he did. This has a much better sensation. I want more. “Easy who knows when the last time you ate or drank”. He tries to take the container from me. I don’t let go and he starts pulling extremely hard. Then he pushes on my body. So I pushed back and he flies back a little bit.

“Seems like those things aren't quite working with you” he made that sound again that made him rumble. “You should eat some more. You'll need your strength or should I say considerable strength”. He gestures at the container with the pellets towards me, wiggling it. The emptiness was going away so I pushed the bowl back towards him. It spills the pellets on the ground.

“Hey these are hard to come by on this and most levels”. He started to make more noise but it was much softer. He knelt down to pick the pellets up to put them back into the container. “Well if you want to eat more then how about you come out and say hi to everyone. Hmmm I mean stare about all confused like you have been”.

He nudges me up and guides me towards the opening. I don't really want to go out there. I could tell it was going to be noisy. Which was just confusing to me. With his prompting I went anyway. What else was I going to do.

We go out and it is just as I expect. More people and more noise. My companion is gesturing at me. Takes a little while but I realize he just wants me to be on the ground. I lower myself to the ground and start looking around.

First thing I notice is people come into the area I just left and lay in the crevasses. They keep going in there until they all have at least one person each. I keep watching everyone and something occurs to me. I am surprised I didn't realize it before. When someone makes a noise it is almost always in another person's direction. Which prompts the other person to make more noise in response. It seems like an endless circle of annoyance to me. There is this other slim possibility that it is some form of communication. I am going with my first conclusion though. Since it is annoying.

Second thing I notice is that I am not left alone. There are an almost endless amount of people in this place. But there is always someone next to me. Most of them make noise in my direction. They all give up shortly, thankfully. That is until their next turn near me.

Lastly, no one is really doing much of anything but making noise. Occasionally someone would move around a bit. Though they always returned to the spots they came from. Usually with one of the two containers filled.

This went on for a really long time. One of the rotating people who has been keeping me company was a lady that kept touching me gently. Each time it fills me with a warm sensation. I really like it.

I was starting to get tired again. When a crevasse opened in the other area I moved my arms and legs to the other area. About half way there the lady that was touching me came and began helping me to one of the comfy cushions.

Taking a moment to try and think about how I entered the state that I “knew myself”. Not sure how I did it before. The lady starts to run her fingers over me and make a soothing noise with her mouth. Not annoying like everyone else. Her lips were not even moving. Just some vibrations from her neck. This is extremely enjoyable.

She does something even stranger than the noises. She lowers her head and presses her lips against the side of my face. It was soft and warm. Leaving a tingling sensation where the lips contacted mine.

As she pulls her head away our eyes lock with almost no distance between us. A pulse ran through my body. Radiating from some unknown space deep inside me. In sheer impulse I press my lips to hers. A shiver ran down my spine, and my muscles tense up and I know that I have done this before. Not just that I have done it before but I have done it with her!

I’m not sure if it was the flicker of a memory coming back or how good it felt to press my lips to hers. All I know is I want more. My arms wrap around her body and I pull her tightly to me.

Her lips start to move with mine. More and more familiarity fills my head. There was also an intense feeling between my legs. My hands slip under her clothing. Feeling her flesh intensifies everything.

I flip her under me. She let out a sharp high pitch noise. I need more contact with her flesh. I pull at my clothing to take it off of me as much as I could without breaking contact with her. I try to do the same for her.

“No dimitri we can't”. She was stopping me from removing her clothing. But she was not strong enough. “No no no please”. Her body was wiggling attempting to pull away from me. It feels exciting and pleasurable. Some part of me hints it is wrong, but I ignore it. I know for a fact that I have been in this exact situation with this lady before. It was when we were. When we were… It is just out of reach. I need more.

The feeling between my legs was heated and hardened. I knew I had to do something with it. Maybe if I did that thing with it I would be able to remember more. “Oh god someone help”. Her noises are extremely loud and panicked. It made me uneasy for some reason. I was so close to unlocking something within me and my body's urges were so difficult to control. What is that thing I did before with her? I know that I know it.

I just let my body do what it wants to do. So far it has brought me closer and closer to unlocking memories. Our groins touched and I felt something warm and inviting. Then I knew what I had to do.

Right then I felt hands on me. Not the ladies. Many hands. They grab ahold of me tight and wrench me away from her. I went flying into the other side of the area and hit the wall with a thud.

Immediately I am on my feet and stare at my attackers.

“What the hell is going on with his eyes”.

“Doesn't matter get the fuck out of here”.

They grab the lady and start to move towards the opening. I try to follow them, but as soon as I took a step I fell over. My legs can’t move like they did before. Something is preventing them. Clothing was around and between my legs.

I work on removing the clothing. Once I do I move on pure instinct and I rush for the opening. There is no opening. All I can find is a solid wall. Except for a tiny slit near my eye level. I peer through it and can only see the man who took me here staring back at me shaking his head.