A sharp pain ran through my face like fire as my face collided with a rock and I watched in utter horror as half my visor flew off my face. This, and the roaring wind flying past my face, made me realize that I was literally falling off a cliff. My eyes widened in terror and my hand instinctively shot out and grabbed a ledge, allowing me to weakly pull myself up. Then, for the first time, I got a good look at my world clearly for what seemed like the first time.
All my life, I’d been taught that the world only consists of agrimites like my, and that my home was the only thing here. But… as I looked out at my world, it looked like it had all been a lie…
Still of the ledge, I held my head in my hands as my head burst into pain as I was opened up to new possibilities. I didn’t know how to think without the visor. I’d never questioned the visors origins, I’d had it longer than I remembered. It had felt right. It had felt… safe.
But now I had freedom, and was determined to take advantage of it, I looked up and reopened my eyes and took in everything around me. I was seeing double. Through my left, visor covered eyes, I saw the world the same as I’d always seen it; Agrimites going about their daily business, leaving their decent wooden homes and doing their jobs. They were paying no attention to the broken-down buildings that had been in tatters for as long as even the oldest agrimites could remember. I still saw the pitch-black border that surrounded the town, that no one had ever gone through and had never questioned.
It was all different without the visor. With my uncovered right eye, I saw everything I’d been missing. The broken down buildings that agrimites avoided weren’t run down at all, they were made of metal and had scientific equipment around them. They were way nicer and better kept than the houses that us agrimites had. Even more surprising were the people who were walking in and out of those buildings. They were invisible to the visor, but the agrimites would walk around them like they were repelled by some magnetic force. The town’s border was also an illusion. Behind it, there were entire cities, futuristic cities with some sort of flying machine. They had some sort of device that they were holding that had a light inside it. It was all so… strange.
“Ha,” the voice of Ceris said from above me, shocking me out of my thoughts. “Ceris is the smartest agrimites. Ceris is always the smartest.”
Is that how I usually sound? I thought. Do these things mess with our minds? I’d better act like I’m still effected by it… I continued, before beginning my climb back down the mountain. At the bottom, I saw the other half of my faded, now pale pink, visor on the ground and carefully pocketed it.
My way home was strange, as I had to be careful to avoid any of the people around the place. They were everywhere. It was kind of terrifying.
When I got there a few minutes later, the lights were on inside, so I knew I couldn’t go in the front door, because my parents probably assumed I was asleep. I usually would be by this time, but they probably didn’t even notice that I wasn’t home yet. To avoid detection, I decided to climb in through my upstairs bedroom window and I did, jumping up the near ten feet to grab my window to pull myself up. Once inside, I left the window open like I always did. Like I’d always been told to do…
All my life, I’d been taught that the world only consists of agrimites like my, and that my home was the only thing here. But… as I looked out at my world, it looked like it had all been a lie…
Still of the ledge, I held my head in my hands as my head burst into pain as I was opened up to new possibilities. I didn’t know how to think without the visor. I’d never questioned the visors origins, I’d had it longer than I remembered. It had felt right. It had felt… safe.
But now I had freedom, and was determined to take advantage of it, I looked up and reopened my eyes and took in everything around me. I was seeing double. Through my left, visor covered eyes, I saw the world the same as I’d always seen it; Agrimites going about their daily business, leaving their decent wooden homes and doing their jobs. They were paying no attention to the broken-down buildings that had been in tatters for as long as even the oldest agrimites could remember. I still saw the pitch-black border that surrounded the town, that no one had ever gone through and had never questioned.
It was all different without the visor. With my uncovered right eye, I saw everything I’d been missing. The broken down buildings that agrimites avoided weren’t run down at all, they were made of metal and had scientific equipment around them. They were way nicer and better kept than the houses that us agrimites had. Even more surprising were the people who were walking in and out of those buildings. They were invisible to the visor, but the agrimites would walk around them like they were repelled by some magnetic force. The town’s border was also an illusion. Behind it, there were entire cities, futuristic cities with some sort of flying machine. They had some sort of device that they were holding that had a light inside it. It was all so… strange.
“Ha,” the voice of Ceris said from above me, shocking me out of my thoughts. “Ceris is the smartest agrimites. Ceris is always the smartest.”
Is that how I usually sound? I thought. Do these things mess with our minds? I’d better act like I’m still effected by it… I continued, before beginning my climb back down the mountain. At the bottom, I saw the other half of my faded, now pale pink, visor on the ground and carefully pocketed it.
My way home was strange, as I had to be careful to avoid any of the people around the place. They were everywhere. It was kind of terrifying.
When I got there a few minutes later, the lights were on inside, so I knew I couldn’t go in the front door, because my parents probably assumed I was asleep. I usually would be by this time, but they probably didn’t even notice that I wasn’t home yet. To avoid detection, I decided to climb in through my upstairs bedroom window and I did, jumping up the near ten feet to grab my window to pull myself up. Once inside, I left the window open like I always did. Like I’d always been told to do…