Just a ghost girl

Hearing

"Would you tell us why weren't you staying in your room when the alarm went on?" the interrogating woman asked for the third time.

Nicolas hadn't been alone when I arrived there were three other people and none of them wasn't Matteo. There was this blonde woman with long hair that did most of the questions. Then there was this short dark-haired woman who mainly just stared at me and wrote something down on her tablet. And the third one was a bald man that asked from time to time some questions but mainly just stared at me. He made me feel very uncomfortable, which was probably his purpose.

They had names, obviously and Nicolas had introduced them to me when I had arrived. I just wasn't very good at names and forgot them as soon as I had heard them. It's not like the four of us were going to be best pals or anything. There were over a million citizens on our Base so we would probably not cross paths ever again.

For the third time I answered:

"I wasn't in any danger because I'm a hologram and wanted to see some action."

My answers had gotten shorter and shorter the more often the question was asked. They had said this was only friendly hearing but felt more like I was a rebel that was interrogated. I wasn't sure whether I was accused of something or if they just wanted to make sure I was just a silly teenager who had got the stupidest idea ever. But I'm quite sure that most people would have made the same choice. Nothing ever happened in the Base so this has been a spectacle.

"When you saw miss Clark in danger why didn't you get help?" the blonde asked again.

I sighed heavily. How long they would keep this up? Were they trying to c***k me? There was nothing to tell them since I knew nothing.

"I was going to but then they were about to shoot her I decided it might be better to just buy some time until our unit gets there."

Next, she would ask why did I agree to show the rebels where the control room is on behalf of Rebecca. And the next after that would be why didn't I just disappear on the rebels. For both, I had already answered that for Rebecca's sake. 

Why hadn't I disappeared on any part was the question that I wondered by myself also. Thinking afterward it was easy to say that I should have left the rebels when they had changed their plan. I should have not to go to the medical level. But on other hand, I had discovered that my body wasn't in the room as it should have been. 

The blonde looked at me like waiting for an answer. I had forgotten to listen. What could have been the next question? I didn't really care. I had questions of my own.

"Could I ask some questions also?" I asked.

They looked surprised and annoyed. The blonde and the bald exchanged looks. The bald one nodded. So he was probably in charge of these three. A piece of information that I didn't really need.

"Go ahead."

I took a moment to wonder how should I phrase my question, which probably didn't matter because they would not give me any good answer. So it was better to ask a simple question:

"Where is my body?"

There was silence, the three interrogators turned to look at Nicolas who seemed very bothered. He had had two days preparing for the question. They must know that I was going to ask that. Nicolas coughed loudly and answered:

"When the rebels attacked your body was moved for a safer place."

I didn't have all the daytime to argue with him and even though I was pretty sure my body had never been in the room. But who knew if Nicolas knew the truth or not. 

"Because of the prototype machine, I'm wearing so that the rebels would get it."

I didn't phare it as a question but Nicolas answered anyway.

"Yes."

I then turned to look at the interrogators and asked from them:

"If there was doubt that the rebels were after the one-of-a-kind technology why there weren't any patrolling at the medical level? The rebels seemed to have a lot of information about it so might have as well the location."

There was a short moment of silence before the bald man answered:

"You don't need to know the reasons for our units' behaviors during crises. Your civils should just follow orders given to you which was to stay in your room in this case."

I nod like accepting the answer. It was as much as I had thought they would answer me. I didn't need to know anything, not even the fact where my body was. As long as I would just follow the orders everything would be fine.  Had I or hadn't I not followed orders my body would still be who knew where the only problem for them seemed to be that I now knew it.

It would have been fun to accuse them of losing my body and see how they would answer. But since they were able to still shut me down they probably knew where it was. And everything I said or did, would be for nothing. It's like you don't have any basic human rights when you are an underage girl. Adults could do whatever they wanted and wouldn't even explain to you why, because you are a child and you don't really need to know anything about adults world.

And all of the lying. Why did they feel like they had to lie to me about everything? It just made everything more suspicious. I wasn't stupid I could have understood if they had from the beginning explained to me that the machine was just a prototype. Maybe this experiment was a little bit unethical or something but it's not like I would be able to tell anyone. On the first hand who would believe me and on the second I would then just be in a coma? I had as much to lose as they had.

But now because of the lies, I was very suspicious. Was it just a little bit unethical experiment or was there something else? What could that something else be? Maybe I wasn't the first to try the prototype and people had gone crazy after using it? Or maybe I was just a machine, not a real person, who knew? All I knew for certain was that I would definitely find out the truth.  

I really needed to find Matteo and talk to him. He was my closest friend sure he would reveal to me everything he knew.  And he had access to the upper floors if he didn't know something he could try to fish it out. A little smile tried to show on my face because I felt a little bit smug. I might not have many contacts but the few (or the one) I had was quite good.

Time felt like it had stopped. The hearing just went on and on with the same questions. I was bored and excited at the same time. I wanted this to be over and look for Matteo. It was time for us to unite our powers and find out what was the truth.