…He re-reads it.

Once, twice, three times…Takes all the time to think of each word.

It’s said that, on average, humans are capable of using only 10 to 13% of their conscious brain’s true capacity to think, with few exceptions that reached up to 21%

At The age of 18, levon was examined. The results came to a resounding 47%!! Only 2people recorded a higher percentage, but he was the youngest.

This may give you an idea on how his brain is analyzing everything that comes on its way, yet…

Levon felt so weak against these words.

‘…I never read any report twice, I can’t believe that I cannot understand what this means.

Some of these words I’ve never even read before, and again…This word again!!

Truth.

The way this text is constructed, I assume that truth is the end point of all things cited before, but I can’t see any logical correlation between them!’

Suddenly, Levon shows signs of pain on his face. He puts his right hand and covers the right side of his face.

‘…This electric wave once again, I think I’ve reached up my limit.’

Levon takes a little glance again on the board, and immediately feels the pain growing bigger. He takes away his eye and tells the device to switch off.

Struggling to reach his bed, he lets his body loose…and takes a trip to the underworld.

It was tonight, that he’ll experience something he had long forgot about.

Levon finds himself once again in the backstage, but this time the setting was different.

He’s the one surrounded by the girls, while Zephyr is standing alone on the side, he does not understand why but he’s not pushing them away, he’s enjoying it…

Zephyr takes a straight look at Levon, gets from the couch and stands right in front of him, while the girls are all over him, naked.

This particular scenery would’ve made a very interesting renaissance painting. Which the modern man has no idea that it was even a thing.

Oddly enough, Zephyr starts reciting the same words Levon was reading previously from the last file. And the more he kept going, with each word Graham would not understand its real meaning. The kisses and the touches of these girls starts burning and melting his body.

Levon starts screaming!! But Zephyr won’t stop…Slowly burning him with his words! Until the girls transformed into hellish fire that devours anything it touches!!

Suddenly,the ground disappeared! Levon gets sucked to the abyss. The pain he felt was immense, he put all his strength into calling on to Zephyr, who’s looking at him falling down from above, in a very pitiful way.

As he screamed, The fire caught Zephyr as well!! But he looked so unbothered by it, as if it was a breeze! With his hair floating from the heat, his guitar magically manifests itself between his arms. And with extreme musical badassery, started playing the same solo that got Levon tearing up earlier in the concert! The fire exponentially grew hotter, as if they were fed by the music energy coming out of Zephyr’s playing, Levon quickly disintegrated into ashes as he lost consciousness, within his own subconsciousness!

Moments later, Levon finds himself safe and sound on both his feet!

He still hasn’t realized it’s a dream yet, but he doesn’t think it is reality as well…So he’s both relieved and unsure about what’s going on again. The setting has changed, he looks around, and realizes that he’s in Babel’s streets. Yet nobody is there…

It’s completely unusual, he takes slow steps to check if any one Is there…

“Are you looking for someone?”. A sound from behind puts chills into Levon’s bones. He quickly turns, and the typical inspection runs automatically.

*Hair down on the forehead covering the neck. Sharp nose. “Hybrid eyes”. considerable shin, 181cm height, skinny fit, dark black hoodie, blac…”

He suddenly stops!

“Dark grey hoodie…skinny fit, 181cm….Hybrid eyes!!??”. Levon realizes that the person in front of him is…

“That’s took 2tents of a second more than usual, do you not believe what you’re seeing?!”. With a wicked smile, his reflection asks!

Levon asks immediately. “Are you genetically designed after me?”

“Hehe…You fool! Who would design someone after you?

I am you.”

“What do you mean you’re me? I am me…”

“I am me too.”

“…Don’t screw with me!”

“Stop screwing with yourself then.”

“…”

“Aren’t you happy to meet yourself?”

“…Stop!”

“…That’s what I thought too, you’re just the boring robot everybody said you are.”

His pseudo self started walking away, contrarily to how Levon does it, he pushes his chest out and his head up, in an arrogant fashion!

He kept walking endlessly, until he disappeared from sight.

Levon froze in his place, not because of his confusion and helplessness. He literally cannot move an inch of his body, including his tongue!

“Do you want to know truth?”.

His image came all the way around from behind and scared Levon shitless, and sets his movement free.

Levon gets defensive and retreats. “STAY AWAY FROM ME!!”.

“You’re so weak, you’re not worth my time yet. I’ll let you go…But be sure that this will be the last time we’re going to meet.”

Levon stops backing down and starts thinking about that last sentence. But it was too late!

Ezer’s energetic tongue licking Levon’s face all over, woke him up from this eternal dream.

He did not scream, nor his heart raced, nor his eyes showed fear or confusion. He was like an empty vessel, a dead body.

“Good morning master!!

Are we still going out today?”. Said Ezer while shaking his tale right and left.

The young scientist gets up slowly, looks at the void for a couple seconds and briefly replies.

“Yes.”

Ezer gets down from bed and runs towards the door, waiting for his master.

Levon goes to wash his face, not looking at the mirror for even a second. Then enters his change room, which has dozens of the same hoodies, tracksuits and sport shoes. Only one black costume was there on the far corner. God knows when was the last time he wore that.

As he prepared himself, he thought to himself.

‘…Years ago.

I stopped having any sort of dreams one year after moving out from the orphanage. That is 16years ago! I forgot something like that even existed…

But before asking why did I have it yesterday, what are dreams to begin with?

I once asked Mama Malika…She told me, they’re a place that we create for ourselves so we can someday return to.

And just like back then, I still cannot understand what she meant.’

Levon was reminded by himself that, one of the words used in the 18th file was “dreams”.

‘…Is this what he meant? That People back then frequently had dreams?’

Not overthinking things too much, he hurried up and got down.

“Ready?”

Ezer barks happily, drawing a light smile on his owner’s face.