"What is my purpose?" She wondered. She sat down on her ragged couch, unwilling to move until her mind had settled on her true purpose in Chimera.
"Why am I here?" She asks, staring into the blank, dusty, crooked wall that stood before her, but to no avail.
"Why do I know all I know despite not being here to see most of what I've already understood?" She was going insane, scratching her head, digging into her neck to find what was causing the shocks. She asked, she asked, she pondered, but… nothing.
Stressed, tired, confused, she slowly lay down on her couch, letting go of the mental agony, and sank into the cushions. It wasn't majestic, the pillows were stained, the room was still grimy, but it was still enough for her to live daily. The main question for her was who gave these assets to her, and how she already knows what to do, despite not being present from the beginning to experience it all. Lilith wasn't living, she was drifting avast a world which remained unknown to her likeness, as her body dragged her through it all, moving without her conscience. Was it an implant? How did she know about the plazas despite not experiencing their history or having anyone explain it to her? How? How??
It was pain. It was repetitive. It wasn't what she wanted, and she closed her eyes.
But what is the use of a mere circuit out of its wire?
The alarms blared, waking her up in an instant. Screams flooded the streets she once treaded, as the sounds of trooper garrisons lit up the air. She ran as fast as she could to her balcony, slamming the sliding doors open. She frantically looked around her street, looking in the direction of the plaza, and as soon as her vision settled and focused on what she needed it to, she was terrified.
The aperture of Gainas⬡, once a symbol of hope, divinity, had been ambushed by a bombing raid of what she could only assume could have been done by the Enlightened after what the figure by the railings preached. Her knees fell weak as her eyes teared up, as it soon processed into her mind that what she saw was only the beginning of what was soon to come for Gainas⬡. After the destruction of the aperture, which had rained down glass shards into the mosh pit who were still celebrating, came silence… In this period, Studon hospitallers ran out of their gates, grabbing as many of the wounded Gainans as possible and bringing them to their medicamps for treatment, as the Gainan troops set up barricades and pointed their rifles at the shattered aperture. It didn't take long for the Regan forces to maneuver their way into Gainas, hoping to offer extra support in the dire situation.
Silence… Silence… Silence…
"What even are the Enlightened?" Lilith asked herself. Not only did she have to deal with her mental turmoil, but now she had to watch helplessly as the civilization that she had been submitted to living in had to battle against indefinite odds against adversaries that she herself did not understand.
Silence… Silence… Silence…
"Deploy the Overhead Wiredrops!" The sirens alarmed as they rang throughout all the regions. Seconds later, Lilith's hair was blown away as fleets of drone-resembling machines flew through the sky, following the orders commanded by the sirens. As if that was not shocking enough, soon, orb-like machines carried by what seemed to be helicopter blades as well came by from the horizon. Lilith could only read a little of what was labeled on its shaft, "Overhead Wiredrop-Skint…?" she muttered… unsure of what the machine was. "Was it another variant of those machines?" she continued to wonder, but to no avail.
"Overhead Wiredrops? What could those be..?" She asked herself firmly. Despite her conscience from the back of her neck helping her through instinct, it was obvious, extremely obvious that she was in a world that would remain unknown to her by that time.
Silence… Silence… Silence…
Lilith stared as the Regan and Gainan troops remained on their posts, with the Overhead wiredrops hovering over the buildings. Studon hospitallers and conscripts still assisted with escorting civilians out of the compromised area, as Lilith stared in curiosity… suspense…
Silence… Silence… Silence…
Silence… Silence… Silence…
Silence… Silence… Silence..
Silence… Silence…
"SCRAPER MOVEMENT DETECTED!" the sirens yelled. In the blink of an eye, the stationary troopers immediately started lighting up the aperture, as growls and roars of beasts unknown lurked on the surface. Minutes later, they finally appeared, swarming into the plaza in droves through the shattered aperture. Some flew, grabbing those unfortunate into the sky, then dropping them down below to finish them off. Some crawled on the walls and impaled those unknowing with their powerful spike-like limbs. And others fell through, swarming the streets with dread.
Immediately, the silence was filled with bloodshed and blood-curdling screams of terror. The overhead wiredrops immediately opened their shafts, dropping tungsten electrical wires, stunning swarms of the monsters. The Regans and Gainans stood together and gunned down most of what they could, even though they were being picked off little by little. The Studon hospitallers raised their pistols as they dragged the lifeless bodies of Gainan comrades and tended to the downed Regans. Civilians ran, ran through the streets, but those too close to the action were cut down from their tracks, painting the facades of the streets red.
This was it, Lilith said to herself as she fell to her knees, shaking uncontrollably. This was it. She would die an unimaginable death in a world she never understood. She was powerless, she was scared, and she was going to die. But she noticed one factor about the monsters. One… disturbing… terrifying factor. The more she listened to the growls of the unknown beasts, the more she realized.
"Why do they barely sound human…?" she said as she stared into the ground, nearly going catatonic from her discovery. She couldn't move, she was terrified, she wanted the silence back,
But the loud shatter of glass went off on the floor of her apartment complex, and with it, a growl.