Hoover, Ellie and me, all of us were equally confused about the situation. I wanted to ask them if they also talked to that tall lady, but I don't think it is safe to say all of that in front of other people. We don't know for sure who might be our enemy.
"All of you will be discharged at night so you might want to consider what you are going to do from now on, in case you haven't." The lady doctor said something I didn't understand.
What does she want us to consider?
"Excuse me doctor! It looks like I am not sure about it would you please be kind enough to guide us for better decisions." Ellie said it in a respectable, polite manner with low voice.
I always knew she had amazing conversation skills.
"What are you not sure about? I know being a war orphan put you in a dreadful situation, but now you must do what is right and necessary."
"And you should know that serving the country is always one's upmost priority." She continued saying it as she checked my temperature.
Wait a minute! What does she mean by that? Serving our country. Her manner of speaking applies that war might not be over.
"So, we should at last serve our nation, but I am not sure about that, it is treacherous, and we just witnessed a gift of war." Shit, that last part was not necessary I should have let Ellie handle it. What if we didn't become war orphans freshly but were always war orphans.
"I know that this training camp really put all of you in these terrible conditions. But considering the fact that it was necessary to awaken the spirit of patriotism in your heart, they had no choice but to do it." Luckily, I use right words before.
She checked our current conditions and suggested that we should get our IDs from the front office.
"Uhm..where is front office? It looks like I was hit hard on the head and cannot remember things correctly." Ellie and I both were surprised as Hoover solved a big problem just now by asking the direction of front office.
After giving us the direction of the front office the doctor went to examine other patients.
"We didn't even ask her for her name!" Hoover said it in a suppressed voice filled with fake charisma.
"It was for the better, we need to be careful about everything! Once we are discharge from here, we will talk to each other about everything that happened." I suggested so that our disguise would not be exposed.
"You are right!" Ellie agreed with me.
"Man, all of you really need to shut up!!!" A boy lying on the bed right side of me shouted with his eyes closed. Guess this is, they can't tolerate anything in these disastrous condition.
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All of us were discharged at exactly 8'o clock at night. We were really fed up with lying on the bed all day, so it was hard for all of us to sleep.
Ellie was not with us as she was sent to the girl's dorm. During the time we spent lying on the hospital bed in the hall we confirmed one thing, and it was that we were war orphans. We became orphans last year in the war between the great empire of Rubridoire and the country of Hilska.
To find answers we tried to look for our rooms by ourselves. It was easy for me as I knew my name, but Ellie and Hoover still were not aware of their names, so their first task was to find them in this new world.
If they had their IDs, it would be easy for them to do so, so they went to look for them.
Me on the other hand knew my name so I slacked and went to find my room. I thought that I would simply ask them tomorrow about the front office.
"Hey look!! Who's here, if it isn't Mr. Fire.!!" I think I heard a voice directed at me. But I didn't bother to look in the direction the voice came from thinking that it might not have been for me.
"I am talking to you, dipshit!!" Ok! Now I am sure the voice was directed at me as someone just slap the back of my head with their palm.
The person standing in front of me was quite good looking if you compare him to me. But I also had to look at my face in the mirror to see if my face was really the same or not. I wish that now I am good looking in this world. So, ultimately, I wasn't sure of if he was better looking than me, wait a second Hoover recognized me so, it means that, yeah, I still looked the same.
"You ignored me just now!! Didn't you?"
The eyes of the guy standing in front of me were closed and left corner of his lip was rolled upward as if trying to show his anger.
"I am sorry!! I didn't mean to ignore you. It's just that I was engrossed in my thoughts when you called me." I showed him the palms of both of my hands and pushed them together repetitively.
"That's what happens when you ignore the commands of supreme leader!"
He bragged. He had a lot of courage to say something like that in front of a teenager like me who cannot help but dislike everything and make fun of everything.
"What did I ignore?" I knew it was not the right thing to ask but still I wanted some questions to be answered.
"What do you mean you don't remember! I told you to not enlist in the war aid division so early!!" I didn't say anything instead raised both of my eyebrows.
"What's more, you were selected in the division of those god-awful wretches. I know they must have pulled something to bully you, but you were stupid enough to get caught in that too." He was complaining about why I enrolled in a certain division.
Of course, he was assuming that I knew what he was talking about.
Well, as you must have guessed by now, I wasn't sure of what he was talking about! But the big thing is I don't even know his name.
To know about his name I asked him, "Had they given you an ID? I heard at the mission that they would distribute IDs to us when the mission will be completed." I made sure that he would not suspect anything.
"I didn't hear anything about it, what happened to your ID?" He counter questioned me.
"I think I might have lost it!" Before he could say anything, I asked him, "Come on! Show me your ID, there is something I want to check."
He scrunched his eyes as if to complain, but after some time put his left hand in the back pocket of his pant and took his ID out from it. He shoved the ID towards me.
-Gilberg Edison.
-Age: 17 years.
-Sex: Male
-Caliber: Magnetism.
-Caliber type: Prodigious.
Upon looking at his ID, my eyes saw something strange and no wonder I was feeling weird this whole time, it was the language of this world. I was feeling strange that the language I have never heard about, was so easily not only understood but even spoken so fluently by me without any problem.
Another strange thing was that there was a word written in a language I knew about. This language was the international language of my world almost 50 years ago.
It was the word 'caliber'. I recognized the word immediately and also knew the meaning of it. I deduced that English in this world was now same as Greek language in my world. Some words of English were now used to give names to special things.
If I am right than caliber meant the potential of a person.
So, what does it mean by magnetism here, and what is up with its type being prodigious? I had a lot of questions in my mind when Edison standing in front of me spoke.
"Why are you taking so long to look at it? Is there something strange there?"
He complained and showed me the palm of his hand gesturing me to give his ID back to him.
"Yeah, sorry... sorry I was just thinking about something." I was cautious enough to not say anything like his name since I don't know what 'Seth' might use to call him.
"Why are both of you standing in the hallway. Go back to your room, it is 8:15 now!!"
I saw an old woman standing at the other end of the hallway. "We'll be going aunt Herda." Edison said it like he knew her. Well not that it matters.
"Yeah, you better hurry!!" She shouted from the darkness. I saw her turning around and tottering in direction opposite to us. She had a small device in her hand which resembled a smartphone or a remote. She was pressing her fingers on it again and again and lights started turning off and soon there was darkness in the hallway.
Edison grabbed my hand and took me to his room. When he opened the door of the room then I realized that it was my room as well as I saw the bunker bed in the room. There was a study table right beside that bunker bed.
I soon realized that I still needed to look at my face to see if I still had the same looks. "If you don't mind, I would like to go to bathroom." I said it while folding the sleeves of my dress shirt I changed into as I left the ward.
"Huh??" Edison was looking at me dumbfounded.
"What" I feigned ignorance. I knew that he would think something is strange if his friend would start talking to him like this, but I had no choice because I still wasn't sure if he was my friend or not.
Edison rolled his brown eyes and opened his mouth, "You know if you are still angry about 'that' incident, I already apologized to you for that.
"Ah, that!! Don't worry about it. I think I am just not feeling well." Heck! I don't even know what incident he is talking about.
I opened the door attached to the wall thinking that it was bathroom, but it turned out to be a cupboard.
"What? You want to take a bath? If you are planning to take a bath, then please don't change your clothes. Wear them again, you know it's my turn to do the laundry and I would really appreciate it if you will not increase the burden on me!!" Edison said all of that in one breath. Guess he really doesn't want to do the laundry.
"Ok!" I replied.
"Yes!" Edison murmured it twice to express his relief.
I opened the door opposite to the cupboard.
I looked inside and there was a sink. A mirror was attached to the wall above the sink.
My reflection could be seen in the mirror. I still had the same black hair. My eyes were of the same brown colour and the facial structure was also the same.
Even my height was same. Chloeir could have given some additional height to me.
There were some light burnt marks on my face. I am guessing that the reason Edison called me Mr. Fire and the burnt mark on my face is because my caliber is fire related. Well, Chloeir did say that she would give me necessary assist for my survival in this new world.
I do think that fire related powers are cool, and I hope that they are enough. I am guessing this considering that calibers are abnormal abilities, humans of this world possess and considering the talks about me and my ID I also had them.
.......
I took a bath and changed into the same clothes I was wearing before. I wonder how Hoover and Ellie are doing. They both are stuck in this damn time shit because of me. I really need to think about what to do from now on. I also had to confirm if I did possess a caliber or not.
I was lying on the bed, and my brain was stuck in a storm of worrisome thoughts when I heard Edison saying from the bottom bed. "You better sleep! You will be going through a medical checkup to see if you got any disease from that place or not."
"If I had a disease than you will also be affected because you are living in a same room with me." I said the obvious thing. I had pulled many pranks on Hoover before whenever we had sleepover. I would trick him to sleep early and then, well I don't think I should say it. I thought that Edison might pull some pranks on me if I went to sleep early.
"Yeah, good guess, dipshit. You are not smart. They are just doing regular checkups tomorrow, just for caution."
I wasn't able to say anything so he continued saying, "It looks like you are still angry so, we will talk tomorrow morning."
What is he even talking about!! I am angry about what?
As I could not sleep, I was turning again and again when my eyes caught sight of an open drawer. It was slightly opened, and I could see a book whose cover was blue in colour.
I thought that it might be good for me if I could learn something about this world by reading that book. Anxiety was also swirling around in me, and I was really scared about living in this world.
........
After 2 hours, I quietly climbed down from the bed and opened the drawer, I picked up the book and opened it. After reading the content of first page I thought I was lucky as this is what was written on the first page.
-SETH LOCKE.
-This is my journal.