Reverse Earth Part 2

Cire opened his eyes. He struggled to keep them open. Lights blinded him. Cire could see Anna’s concerned face observing him. He raised his hand to wave, but it was in a cast.

“Don’t move, Cire,” Anna said soothingly. “It’ll be okay.”

“W-where’s Xam?” he stuttered.

“In the room beside us,” Anna said gently. “His injuries are better. Speaking of which, what happened?”

“Do I really need to explain it though?”

“Not really.” Anna said.

“There was snow and ice everywhere!” Cire said.

“It’s the middle of Warm-month, though,” she said. “How could it be there?”

“I have no idea,” he admitted. “Maybe I should join the meeting and ask Kcaz about this.”

“No!” she replied. “What are you thinking? You almost died! You put Xam in danger! You should rest!”

“I have to go!” Cire said. “ This is urgent!”

“More important than recovering from a near-death experience? Of course not! There will be other people talking about this. Don’t worry!”

“I need to talk about it myself,” Cire said firmly. “ I faced it and dealt with it. I don’t want other innocent people to get hurt.”

Anna sighed and crossed her arms. She looked skeptical, but after a bit, she uncrossed them and gave Cire her mobile-puter.

“You could do it on Speed,” she suggested. 

Cire put it on his lap and opened the app. 

 He typed, “Skyrise Tower’s Meteorologist Meeting Number 109” as his meeting name.

Anna adjusted the mobile-puter to face Cire. After a few moments, Cire was in. 

“Furthermore,-” Kcaz paused.

Everyone looked at Cire through the screen, as he just interrupted the meeting. He felt his face redden with embarrassment.

“Cire! You’re alive! Kcaz exclaimed. 

The others started asking questions.

“Are you okay?”

“Did you break your neck?”

“What happened?”

“It’s a miracle you survived!”

Cire nodded.

Kcaz turned to the others and they quieted down. “Now that Cire has joined, let’s watch a newsreel about today’s incident.

Kcaz pulled up a video and played it.

“Breaking news: A car mountain was found in the middle of an intersection. The cars were smashed together and blocked Main Street, forcing others to go around.” a news anchor said. “Our reporter says that 2 were found dead, with 38 others injured. This accident was caused by icy roads-”

Kcaz paused the video. 

“Did you hear that, Cire? Icy roads. Strange weather patterns are occurring right now. This can’t happen naturally. This leads me to believe that the strange weather was caused by human activity.” 

“I think you’re right, Kcaz,” Cire said. “It’s the middle of Warm-month and there’s ice! Not to mention that there was also snow on my car. Anyways, Kcaz, referring to your human activity theory, what do you think most likely caused this?”

“No idea,” Kcaz replied. “We have to do a bit of research. Give us about two weeks and we’ll probably have a good idea who caused this chaos. Well Cire, I know you haven’t been here long, but you should log off and take a rest. I know you’ve been through a lot.”

“But-” he protested.

“You need to rest,” Kcaz said firmly. 

Cire sighed. “Bye, guys.” he said dejectedly.

“Get well soon!” 

“See you soon!”

“Have a speedy recovery!”

“Hope you don’t get into another incident like this!”

Cire logged off and Anna took the mobile-puter from him.

“Kcaz is right, Cire,” Anna said. “You have to rest.”

“Easy for you to say.” he muttered.

Anna took away the mobile-puter, folded it back up and stuffed it back into her handbag.

“You really should take a rest, Cire,” Anna said. “You’re tired.”

“I am not!” he replied, widening his eyes. 

Anna sighed and Cire folded his arms. She took a small white bottle from Cire’s bedside table and a glass of water. She shook a capsule from the bottle and handed Cire the glass. He took it skeptically.

“What kind of pill is that?” Cire asked. 

“Your daily medication,” Anna replied. “The doctor prescribed it for the next two weeks.”

Cire grudgingly took the medicine from Anna and put some water into his mouth. Then, he shoved the pill in and swallowed.

Suddenly, Cire felt like the room was spinning and his eyelids were heavy. He realized that Anna had given him a sleeping pill! 

She tricked me! Cire thought angrily. 

“The sleeping pill will knock you out for a few hours,” Anna said. “ When you wake up, the doctor will look over your wounds and give you more medicine.”

Cire groaned. He couldn’t fight against the pill anymore. He closed his eyes and fell into a dreamless sleep.