“Why do they all look like people I know?” I ask when I pass through the fog. We pass many people on the way who are looking right at me with emotionless faces. It was like a scene from a horror movie. My companion smiles, who looks like Mandeep, smiles.
“To ease your nerves. Human hearts are known to be weak. But you look calmer and attentive than any of them.” He says.
“Only on the outside. You don’t want to know what’s going on inside my mind. Why is this place so foggy?”
“You cannot see our world if you're not one of us. Right this way, let me take you to the drift chamber.”
“What is a drift chamber?”
“It is a sealed chamber filled with a liquid. You will be dropped in the chamber and transferred to the past as soon as it happens.”
“As soon as what happens?”
“Your death.”
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