I wake up. Was this another dream? I was in a cage, my body full of burns and bruises, and sitting outside of the gate was a person. This person had a mask. I sat there, moment after moment, scared to death. The nightmares weren't over, I would keep waking up in a different nightmare over and over.
I looked at my arms, they were burnt nearly off, charred to a crisp. The blackness of them was ashen and disturbingly gross. Where did they come from? I panicked, then though for a couple moments. I remembered fire, a camp, and the angel of death. Then it hit me, I was still in the Retreat. (Or at least somewhere on Earth) I looked at the person sitting in front of me again. White mask, covering his face like an illusion. The mask seemed to fit every feature of his face, as if shaped and then melted on. He seemed to be out cold. I shook my cage, seeing if there was any weak spot, any small point I could simply dive out... Nothing.
I screamed, to wake the guard, not caring what happened to me at this point. The guard shook, and rattled. He then awoke. He got out of the chair he was lounging on, then revealed some details about himself. One thing I noticed right off the bat was the mask, it had no straps and no way to hold it on. He also seemed to be moving his lips as the mask moved along with it. He spoke, English. "Do you know why you are here? No... BECAUSE YOU TRESPASSED ON FORSAKEN GROUND!!!" The three changes in emotion scared the crap out of me. "Do you know what the Society of Masks do to trespassers. Let me show you."
He took off for a moment. He walked out the hole in the wall and was gone for a couple moments. While he was gone I tried to remember what Molly had said about the Society of Masks. "They aren't a force to be recon with." That was all I remembered.
The man came back in with a device. It had a small square on the bottom and a large circular prism on top. It was a thing to be seen alright. It looked like it had been tossed together by a 3 year old. But then he pressed a switch I couldn't see from my point of view. I saw a hologram, that stood in the air like a normal human being, but it was weirder, as it seemed to transform the whole room into the place the person in the mask wanted me to go. I looked around and I saw a metal table. I then looked an saw some doors, and as the doors opened, I saw a person, a man about 5' 11" dragged in. The man was flailing around, screaming and wailing. He then was put on the metal table and strapped onto it.
I wasn't sure what was happening, and I didn't want to see, but I had to watch, because the next moments were probably going to be my own fate.
The man was grabbed, arms, legs, and neck, too keep him from flailing and screaming. Then it happened. A man came in, black suit like a business man. He had with him this bottle of liquid, and a mask. I wasn't sure what would happen next but it was freaking disturbing. The man got a syringe and filled it to the top with this liquid substance he had next to him. He then dropped it onto the mask. The mask started burning, as if plastic. It melted and burned down. The man on the table had no chance to see it coming. It was then slammed onto the mans face, as he squirmed and shrieked in pain from what seemed to be a mask being melted into this mans face. He squealed and shook going slowly into shock from the pain. I watched as I could see the blackening char marks around his neck and the veins quickly pulsing in his arms. He was in hell. Then the shrieking stopped, the man was silent and so was the room. The man in the suit then said "Take our new recruit away." He then spit on the man, and walked out. I watched as the dragged the slump body of the newly masked man away, and I knew that it was going to be me.
The hologram shut off with a very bright flash. I looked up to see the guard who showed me the video was gone. I looked left, and there were the doors. I looked right, and I saw blood, streaked all over the wall. I looked and followed the blood with my eyes and saw the guard sprawled out on the table about 10 feet away from me. Then I looked next to the table, and saw something I hadn't expected.
"Hey, how about we get you out of there?" It was Molly.
