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be?
    “ I think we’re in some
sort of experiment,” she rubbed her eyes as she spoke. “Evidently,
this town is meant for abnormal creatures, I suppose, we might be
here,” she paused, her voice becoming fainter, “to see how average
people would react after finding themselves in this hell. The
people, who built this place, might be watching us secretly now so
they can work on their creation.”
    “ As a matter of fact, I’m
not a normal man anymore,” I added flatly. I could feel an
unfamiliar power flowing through my veins. “You saw what my strikes
did to that monster in the house. But I have been thinking about
the hell you just mentioned. We might be dead, what do you think?”
I deduced.
    “ Dead?” she screamed out
appalled. “You think we’re in hell? I mean in the real
hell?”
    “ Look, both of us woke up
remembering nothing, who and what we had been before, not a single
piece of shit from our past. What was waiting for us in the
desert?” I demanded an answer from her but didn’t wait too long and
continued. “This damned town.”
    I could clearly see the fear twinkling
in her shocked eyes. Hadn’t she thought about the idea I had just
given her? She was walking next to me, but her thoughts were far
away.
    “ What have I done to
deserve an afterlife in hell? ” she
murmured under her breath ruefully.
    “ That’s the question we
might not be able to solve, ever. Sometimes we do things we’re
sorry for later. That’s if we ever remember those things,” I said
miserably. “Maybe the answer is somewhere there,” I pointed back
towards the light peeking out from under the gray sky.
    “ We’ll never get through
this town and its beasts to reach it, though.”
    Deep inside, to be honest with me, I
shared her supposition. I had barely defeated one dog, let alone a
pack of monstrous animals, or abnormal creatures created by some
crazy scientists. Whatever, they would surely tear me to bits like
piranhas do to their poor victims that have chosen the wrong waters
to pass.
    “ We can’t get out of the
town if we’re dead,” Elizabeth said. “There is no turn back from
hell Jonathan.”
    “ Yeah, right,” I murmured.
“We have to check it anyway. Maybe I’m wrong.”
    “ You definitely are. For
me we’ve been abducted and sent to here. Whoever is doing this,
they may erase our memory by some powerful poison and threw us
here.”
    “ Maybe,” I sighed
mournfully. “What about the sunless sky? You think they covered it
by enormous monitor? Like a cupola over the whole town?”
    She didn’t answer at once.
    “ We might have been
captured by aliens and moved to another world or planet.” I
understood her; she stubbornly wanted to avoid the death theory in
any possible way.
    I liked the idea. Who wants to
die?
    But the fact was both of us had had
several flashbacks from our past, which we had relived, and we had
both seen someone who most probably had been the dearest person to
us ever. This might have been their way of torturing the remainder
of our souls forever.
    On the subject of time, I
realized at that moment that time had stopped in that town .
    Although I hated to look
up, I had to have a glimpse of that gray, dingy space that hung
eerily above my head. The sun’s absence meant that there wouldn’t
even be a sunrise or a sunset. The corners of my mouth twitched,
and I smiled to myself realizing that an hour was going to be
forever. At that very moment I understood the true meaning of the
word forever .

Chapter five: They want me in the
house

    For a little while we
walked in silence, musing about the suggestions we had both just
put forward. I guessed the word hell was stubbornly hovering in her
mind. Regardless of her attempts to avoid the idea about death and
the afterlife in hell, I believed, I might be right.
    Also the theory about the experiment
with monsters and the average people like us seemed plausible too.
Yes, it sounded like a Hollywood fantasy movie, but I