Chapter 4
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"It’s good that you're back to your senses." she heard that voice again. Was it coming from her head? Oh my God, is she going crazy?
"You're not crazy! I am really inside your head." Anika tried to reject that she is hearing this. "Please don’t do that! You're hurting me." She heard that voice again.
She tried to relax and remember that alien life form she saw from her procedure back from that room. Maybe everything is real and the transformation was a success. So everything in the company is now like her? Do they also hear voices in their heads?
"Listen well Anika." she heard the voice again. "What I am about to tell you must be kept between you and me. Do not tell anyone or your life will be in danger." She nodded, still looking at herself from the mirror. Since everything seems weird already, she might as well cooperate with this voice inside her head.
"My name is Celestia. Well, that's what everybody calls me from where I originally came from. All the people you have encountered from Intergalactic Exchange Corp are not your kind.
We all came from another planet far from yours. But we are lacking resources already due to overpopulation.
Like humans, we were looking for other planets to inhabit. But it seems that all other conditions cannot support our kind."
"So you are using humans to live? Why can't you just live on your own?" Anika asked her.
"That's the problem. We cannot live without a host on your planet. We need to have a body like yours in order to survive the atmospheric surroundings of your planet.”
“Normally, when we get injected into your system, you will immediately die. Then we are the ones who will be controlling the body. However, it looks different in our case."
"So why am I still alive and still conscious of what's happening?" she asked. Star looks like she was waiting for her to ask that question.
"Your mind is very strong Anika. I almost died when they injected me into your brain. But then you revived me somehow. Now we exist both in your body. Nobody has to know that or else, they will have to take me out and it will surely kill us both!"
Anika cannot believe what she is hearing but it seems that everything is real now. She can talk to the creature that is inside her head. She looks like the best version of herself now and she felt stronger than what she can remember. It seems that she cannot do anything about it anymore. She is one of them. All she needs to do is to just play along.
"Anika, promise me you will not tell anyone. You cannot trust anyone about this. I am weak as well and I'm not sure if I will survive if they extract me out of your system. We will both die in that process. If anyone finds out, we're both dead." she said with a serious face.
"I think I don't have that much choice now anyway. Sure, I promise. This will be our secret and nobody will know about it." Anika agreed.
She needs to do so and she has to do whatever Celestia told her to do. They are both in jeopardy if anyone of her kind knows, they are good as dead. She will not even consider telling it to another human being either.
What can she do? They might lock her in an insane asylum. This is a reality now and she cannot do anything about it.
This nightmare turns out to be real. How did they actually make me participate with this transformation?
Then she remembered that Andie gave her a cup of coffee. Because if being a caffeine dependent, she put herself into this mess!
"What are you thinking?' she heard Celestia inside her head.
"Nothing. I am just letting everything sink in. Wait, you can read my mind? '' she asked.
"Unfortunately, I can't. That's one of your great powers I guess. You can block your thoughts."
Anika finds it interesting. Celestia literally lives inside her head but she cannot hear her thoughts. So it means that she can still keep her privacy.
"Let's take a dip for a while. I think we both need to relax. I don't know what will be our next move but we can think things over in a nice bath.
"Anika went to the bathtub and soak herself in. She needs to meditate and think things over. One day or another, she will have to get out of the house. She needs to know how to act in front of these people.
Nobody has to know. This is the biggest secret she will have to hide in her lifetime or it will cost it her life. It all sounds scary but also exciting at the same time.
The best thing that she can do is play along and see what will happen. She's not even in her apartment. Something tells her that she needs to be more careful now that she's aware of what's happening.
She tried to relax her mind and just let herself drift with her thoughts.
"There's nothing I can do for now." she thought and suddenly felt conscious. She has another species installed directly on her brain.
Nothing. Maybe she can't really read her mind after all. Anika just let out a deep sigh and closed her eyes. She needs to try to deal with this situation.
The only problem is, she have no idea what to do about it!
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