Awakening from a Phoenix ( Love and Sacrifice)

02- Alice

Alice narrating:

My name is Alice, I was always a shy girl in my childhood, I had no friends or family. My life is in the Kingdom of humans, I am generation three, the selected, being a weak child, always helped in the sewing factory, where most orphaned children are cared for.

Throughout my childhood, I only ate vegetables, a poor diet, we had no perks, I never knew what a piece of meat is, I just heard about it.

After I entered adolescence I was moved to the sector, they took me to agriculture, I fell in love with the land, I spent most hours on the plantations, talked to all the plants, vegetables, and even the flowers.

When I arrived in my adult phase, it was the worst of my entire life, they moved me from the sector again, for being a woman, Theoretically beautiful, to the selective track, was instructed to work as a janitor for the indoctrinated.

There are people who would be happy to serve the indoctrinated, but in my opinion, it is the worst selection you have for your life, they are petty people, see us as insects.

Now I'm here, trapped in the central building of the national team, I have to take a course, to know how to serve people without being noticed, so in this track you can already know how we are treated by the indoctrinated.

I started taking the course, and all of this is a drag, it was just they informed us that we could not be seen, looked at, or treated like human beings.

At the end of the course we do two selection tests, and it will tell you which area we will go to, cleaning, kitchen, gardener, that is, any selection, the important thing is that you serve without being noticed.

The first test is about our clothing, our appearance and our education. In this part of the selection At least I have an advantage, as I was an orphan And lived in the clothing factory, always during a time of day, they gave us studies, we needed to know how to read to pick up all orders, and handle parts.

In the second selection test, a body and mental test is performed to find out if the chosen selection fits our profile.

On the day of selection...

I've finished all my tests, now I'm in a queue with exactly 200 people, We're taking our selection letters, As soon as I get my letter, I'll open it because I can read, I turned which bus to take, and which selection was chosen.

I was anxious, I didn't want anything to leave me close to the Doctrines, I would love your gardener, even a cleaning lady, but far from them.

My turn came, anxiety was tightening my stomach, or it could be hunger, they didn't give us breakfast today.

"Alice, number 56, come over".

They called my name, and my number went to them, gave me a letter, asked if I could read, I did it with my head and then I left.

Getting out of line and sitting on the bench, opening my letter, and to my surprise it could be the worst profession that existed in my opinion.

It was written that I would be a nanny, of children of a family of indoctrinates, they were in medical doctrine, all were doctors, one of the most important generations in our entire history, without doctors, there would be no population.

I felt my stomach start to turn, as I would babysit a family, I had no family, I had no friends during childhood and I was always alone, I never had contact with children, I don't even know how to take care of one.

I waited for the line to end, then I went to the Chief Defenders, they are the generation that takes care of organizations and security of everything, I approached him in fear, But I needed to talk to them, this must be wrong, they may have been cheated in my selection.

" Hello, sorry, Mr. Defender, but I think there was an error in my selection, it is written, nanny of children for the Doctrines, but I never took care of children".

The defender improved with the ugliest face that could exist, he looked me up and down, then spat on his side.

"Are you informing me that someone, from my people, made a mistake in your selection? Let me explain something to you, the selection is made perfectly, by an intelligent system, if that is written in your letter, this is what you will do, but don't worry, you are not obliged to be drooled Doctrines, you can simply get on that last bus next door, it will take you out of the kingdom, and you will be free to stay in place at Lugar Ermo ".

I no longer had the courage to look at the defender, I took my letter and looked at the bus numbering, and ran over there, I was the last to enter. The bus closed the door and left, I was watching the last bus, it would take people who did not like the selection to the wilderness, I have heard many stories of this place, it is uninhabitable, full of ice, there is no food, and you die in a few hours.

I have come a long way fighting alone for my life, to end up in such a place it is easier to face the challenge of being a Doctrinal nanny.

As we were in the generation of those selected, the bus would travel for two days to reach the territory of the Doctrines.

Bus was traveling for 12 hours, I didn't know if I was alive or dead, my stomach was snoring from hunger, when the bus finally stopped, we went down into a tall building, I had never seen a building like that, it was so tall that it looked like it was going to touch the sky.

We entered the building, then took us to a room, separated women from men, had all the clothes removed, and put them in the basket. Then they sent us to a bathroom, where there were selected people waiting, the two women who were with me, spoiled me from top to bottom, washed my hair, they cut my nails, then when they sent me to a next room, I had clothes waiting for me, it was new and they smelled flowers, I couldn't believe it.

After I got dressed, a selected woman asked me to ask for my shoe number.

" I honestly don't know, I always used what was given, it didn't matter if it was small or big."

He was ashamed of not knowing, but the woman just smiled, went to a table and took a ruler.

Then she brought me shoes, they were new too, she fixed my hair, stuck it in a bun, and put on a cap, he said that from that day on I would always have to dress exactly that way.

Then she put me in front of a mirror, I couldn't believe it was me, it can't be, I was totally different, I put my hand in my mouth scaring me, the girls started laughing, said that everyone had this reaction.

Then they took me to the next room with the other girls, and for the first time I smelled strange water, but it wasn't a bad smell, it was a smell of food, the most delicious smell I have ever smelled in my life.

They sent us to the tables, had a plate of soup served, with a Piece of Bread, juice, and a little pot with something inside. I had never seen the selected ones who were at the scene reported that it was so much food in my life, especially for me.

They asked everyone to eat calmly, without getting a uniform dirty, then we would have an hour of rest and we will return to the bus.

I started with soup, with the Gods, This is the best thing I've ever eaten in my life, it wasn't just vegetables, there was something in between, the local people said it was pasta, after finishing my soup plate with bread, I drank my juice, and I watched the little pot beside me with a small spoon.

Opening the little pot, it was a half-soft, half-hard thing and had a strange liquid on top, the smell was also not normal, I had never felt it either, but it wasn't a smell of food, I was afraid, I didn't know if I ate.

I realized that it was not just me who had this doubt, so but selected started to speak loudly for everyone to hear.

" This small size on the table is a dessert, it is common after meals, as they will now be in a new generation pattern, they will be entitled to a little pot like that in every meal, the one on the table is a pudding, a candy made with milk and eggs, eat slowly and enjoy that moment."

Everyone started to face each other, waiting Who would be the first to eat, nobody managed to take the initiative, so I took my little spoon and started eating the pudding, a million sensations were in my mouth, I wanted to eat a plate full of it, too bad it is so small.

After I started eating, everyone started, it was over in seconds, we got up from the table and went to a room, where there were some mattresses on the floor, let us sleep for an hour.

Then we went back to the bus, now we wouldn't have stopped, we would go down exactly in the cities of the Doctrines.

I watched the landscape during the day, it was at that very moment that I realized the difference in the generations, we passed through the territory of the Defenders, it was a quiet and clean place, all in its place.

When we arrived in the indoctrinated cities, my eyes lit up to a place never seen before, I didn't know if I was happy to be able to see a place like that, or to be afraid, I don't know how people here will treat me, but just looking at buildings, cars, trees, here are the objects that come out of water, it's a beautiful thing. While in the land of the selected we had no right to drink.

The bus started making some stops, and asking people to get off, I realized that mine was the last one, because there was only me on the bus.

I sat in the front seat, hoping to reach my destination, when the driver pulled the matter.

" don't get that look of fear woman, you will be in the richest part of the indoctrinated, feel like a lucky woman, you will have good food every day, and a warm place to warm up, just don't look at them, or talk to them, that everything will be fine, be invisible, that you will have a long life."

He swallowed dry with the driver's word, Will I be able to be invisible, after all I am a human being.

" And if I can't be invisible, what will happen to me"?

I asked the anxious driver.

" simple, will be taken to the wilderness".

I took a deep breath with his answer, there was no time to ask any more questions, he stopped the bus, and asked to get off with my letter in his hand, and introduce to the selected person who would be waiting for me at the gate.