Reading: "Oracles Mysterium" from Evenfall of the helical (A.Glass 2022)

521 Union Drive,

Los Angeles.

January, 1981

“After Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, newly elected President Ronald Reagan said he will “Scrap any talk” of nuclear weapon arms control, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have now set the Doomsday Clock at four minutes to midnight in the possibility of a nuclear war between the Superpowers...”

Camila Adalyn, lying naked, propped up against the wall, holding a script, reciting her lines for a television show pilot, looking up at the bathroom she's sees a man regurgitating into the toilet. Leaning forward, she crawls towards the television facing the bed, reaching over with her left index finger she turns it off. She sits back against the wall again, resting the script onto her knees.

“You shouldn't had all that cheap wine,” Camila yells out, whilst studying the script.

“My fucking head, worst headache ever, Christ...”

Camila shakes her head, looking at a line from the script, she looks up at the ceiling.

“What do you mean, it's aliens! I mean, how? Are they here now? Could you be an alien?” Exhaling, she looks at the script again, to see if she had remembered the line correctly.

“I told you, they're already here...actually it is the malevolent ones they have infiltrated the government. They...” The man returns to the bedroom, looking down at Camila. “...need our organs, more so our kidneys. They’re after the hormone Erythropoietin. It nourishes them. The aliens are already extracting it from President Reagan and that Russian President. That’s why they look sick all the time. Hence, they wanna nuke each other.”

“Oh god, I reading from my script you moron! Not your crazy brain!” Camila replies in an annoyed manner, placing the script down next to her, rolling her eyes, whilst shrugging her shoulders at the man.

“I just don't think this relationship can work between us,” the man says, placing his spectacles on.

“Really?” Camila’s tone is of an irritated manner, directed at the man standing in front of her.

“Yes, so I am going to say goodbye today, in fact, now.” The man replies, as he looks around for his trousers, as Camila stands and walks towards the shower. Good by then. What a loser, she thinks to herself, as she steps into the shower recess, with both hands, she turns on the shower taps.

“The room is spinning, I can't breath...” Camila says, sitting in the emergency room of Los Angeles County Hospital.

“Ok, Ms Adalyn, please look at me and breath slowly...” The young emergency Doctor says, crouching down in front of Camila, who is sitting on a chair, with the nurse crouching down next to her gently holding Camila's right arm, as she begins to breath slowly. “...Through the nose and slowly through the mouth, with each breath, make it slower than the last,” he says in a calm manner.

Camila closes her eyes, breathing slower, feeling her heart rate return to normal, as the nurse gently presses her left index finger on Camila's right wrist, detecting her pulse. She nods at the Doctor.

“Good, keep going, slow breaths, in through the nose and out through the mouth.”

“I feel better”

The nurse looks at the Doctor once again, “I have to continue on with my rounds,” she says quietly.

“That's fine,” The Doctor replies, as the nurse stands and walks towards the main ward doors that separate the emergency department area.

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(A.Glass 2022)

"Evenfall of the Helical"