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That was wrong. There had to be a door. I mean, I got inside here somehow, didn’t I? I didn’t just magically teleport inside it.
Teleport.
I was reminded of old episodes of Star Trek. They had spaceships and they could teleport people around.
So maybe the bright light wasn’t a figment of my imagination after all.
The beam of light in the minivan could move things around. It was a sort of magic too. Maybe that was how I got here?
I pushed the thought from my mind. There was no beam of light and I didn’t get there by magic. There would be a reasonable explanation for this.
I clicked my fingers.
The bathroom!
They sometimes made rooms share bathrooms in hospitals. I could enter the next room and use their door to get out. Maybe my room was for quarantine purposes or something.
The bathroom didn’t have a door, just an empty doorway.
Okay, so it was strange, but maybe that was for… I don’t know. Maybe it was easier for nurses to help patients in and out. I was struggling for plausible explanations.
I was getting worried.
The bathroom was basic. It consisted of a regular toilet, a sink, and a small shower. The shower had no curtain or door either. There were no towels, no soap, or toothbrushes, or toothpaste.
And there was definitely no door to an adjacent room.
This place wasn’t a hospital. I couldn’t fool myself into believing it was.
It was a prison.
And I was trapped.
“Hello?” I said out loud. “Is anybody there?”
I rapped on the wall with a knuckle to get someone—anyone’s—attention.
Someone had to be out there.
I hadn’t got there by accident. Someone put me in here.
“I think there’s been some mistake,” I said. “I don’t know what you want but I can get it for you. I’m a trained engineer. I can build whatever you need. Or fix things. I’m not supposed to be here. I’m supposed to be in New York. I have a job there. And a life. If you let me go, I would very much appreciate it.”
It didn’t hurt to be civil to my captors. At least, not at first.
But there was no response.
“I know you’re out there,” I said firmly. “If you let me go, I won’t tell anybody. I won’t do anything. I’ll forget this whole thing ever happened.”
Yeah, right. I’d be having nightmares about this place for the rest of my life. It wasn’t much different from being buried alive. The only difference was I had a little more elbow room.
I was greeted once more with silence.
Was I just talking to myself? Was I imagining this whole place? I didn’t think so. Alice was the one with the imagination. I just built things.
“Please!” I cried. “Let me go! Please! I swear I won’t tell anyone anything!”
No one would believe me anyway.
