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I sat on the pure white floor of my brightly lit cell. I sat in the back corner, not wanting to look at how high up I was. When I had first looked at the floor, hundreds of meters below me, I felt like I was falling forward, spiraling down into the floor but rising upward at the same time. It felt sickening and confusing. I could imagine myself falling, both inside and outside of my mind.

The floor, back, and ceiling of my cell were pure white; the sides were a few inches thick of a form of glass from this planet that was far from breakable. It was brightly lit by a heatless light source that came from the floor and reflected off the ceiling. It was almost blinding.

The ceiling was approximately 150 centimeters from the floor, as was each wall from its twin. The high walls of the prison were covered with these cubes, each stacked on top of each other like a child's blocks.

However, we were not to be played with. We were not to be spoken to. We were not to realize that we existed. We were supposed to forget. So were they. We were to be a memory written on a paper, only to be crushed and ripped and tossed away. We were to be gone and done with. Unfortunately, that wasn't human nature.

It was amazing how close people had gotten to the real thing in those cliché little sci-fi movies they made those hundred years ago about what futuristic planets looked like. However, our planet looked like those planets a bit then too. That was when they started using touch-screens more and more things were white and clean looking.

It was funny, really, how close they had gotten. But, at the same time they were incredibly wrong. They were so far fetched to think that we would be the victims when we discovered life on other planets.

Most of the people in these cells were humans. The cells on either side of me were empty. The cells next to them were full. They went up first, on both sides, and then across. They went from outside to inside and every other cell. This was to ensure solitude for as long as possible.

We were prisoners of war, nothing more. We were soldiers that had been captured. We were on the side of Azaya. That was their name for Earth. It was a god from one of their first religions that was started thousands and thousands of years ago.

We had named this planet Terra. We had come here because it was thought that it had organic soil, which meant plants, which meant life. It took us a year to get here being it was out of our solar system. We seem to think we've perfected our space travel. We can easily get out of our solar system and have made it so that you don't lose bone density when you go into space.

We've cured many diseases and increased our life span and the amount of time we need to go to school. Machinery has taken many of the jobs that we used to do. We have more time now to do as we wish. However, that doesn't mean that there is anything to do.

This war that we've started has grown amazingly. The allies and enemies have been mixed together and it has become the number one priority in our lives to win this war. School doesn't even seem to matter. I'm merely 14 and I am expected to be a soldier. It is apparent that I've failed.

A guard walked past my cell with a male invex. That is what they named themselves. The invex. The dominant creatures that walk this planet that they had named Kest, which in their language, pastrian, meant first. They had once been many countries, like the Earth. However, they now live under the rule of a large government system that seemed to be dying. Democracy didn't seem to work with billions of people all wanting different things. I had a feeling that a civil war may come of this inter-planet war that was currently taking place.

The guard placed the male in the cell next to me. The skin of the invex was peculiar. It ranged anywhere from pure white to an inky black all with different shades of blues for a tint. Their skin seemed to glow in the light of these cells, radiating the soft, milky white, mist of the moon’s pale glow.
Their facial features were similar to a human’s, only with a nose that stuck out less. They had ears on either side of their head that came to a long point. These were for short ranged hearing. They also had a set of antennae protruding from beneath their hair for long ranged hearing. They had evolved this way for it seemed their ears failed easily because of the use of listening devices.
Their eyes were like a human’s as well. The whites were visible and the pupil was surrounded by a colored iris. The colors went from purples and blues to greens and yellows.
Their posture was much straighter than a human’s. They were all together just, taller than a human.
Their hair colors ranged from white to black, again, with bluish tints. It seemed blues and grays were their neutrals.
They had no extra appendages that would be useless and get in their way. They had no super powers or special abilities. They were simply beings that existed. They made technology to help them, like humans did. They were similar to us, yet so very different. They had saved their planet when it was dying so long ago, and we had yet to reach that state. They were very far ahead of us. Their intelligence seemed to have increased over time. They were far beyond us it seemed. However, they still had natural instincts. They were just as competitive as humans and wanted information just as badly. However their tactics for everything were different from ours.
The guard led the male Invex into the cell next to me. His skin was a pale white with a bit of a turquoise tint to it. His skin was also grayish which made me think he didn’t go outside much.
His hair was a shaggy white mess that framed his face in a way that showed he did not want to be looked at. I could not see his eyes.
He was sat in the corner of the cell and he did not look up. He did not look at where he was. He didn’t even seem to contemplate his surroundings. He simply curled his knees to his chest and appeared to fall asleep.
I probably would have laughed at this before, but now… My thoughts fell into themselves and blended together like lines on paper. I just sat and thought about anything that came to mind, just as long as it didn’t have to do with Earth or the war. That, however, was incredibly complicated being nothing else had happened in my life. I settled my mind on the male in the cell next to me. I slowly let my thoughts drift from me until I was no longer controlling them. They just played out before me. And I did nothing but watch.

Description
I sat on the pure white floor of my brightly lit cell. I sat in the back corner, not wanting to look at how high up I was. When I had first looked at the floor, hundreds of meters below me, I felt like I was falling forward, spiraling down into the floor but rising upward at the same time. It felt sickening and confusing. I could imagine myself falling, both inside and outside of my mind.

The floor, back, and ceiling of my cell were pure white; the sides were a few inches thick of a form of glass from this planet that was far from breakable. It was brightly lit by a heatless light source that came from the floor and reflected off the ceiling. It was almost blinding.

The ceiling was approximately 150 centimeters from the floor, as was each wall from its twin. The high walls of the prison were covered with these cubes, each stacked on top of each other like a child's blocks.

However, we were not to be played with. We were not to be spoken to. We were not to realize that we existed. We were supposed to forget. So were they. We were to be a memory written on a paper, only to be crushed and ripped and tossed away. We were to be gone and done with. Unfortunately, that wasn't human nature.

It was amazing how close people had gotten to the real thing in those cliché little sci-fi movies they made those hundred years ago about what futuristic planets looked like. However, our planet looked like those planets a bit then too. That was when they started using touch-screens more and more things were white and clean looking.

It was funny, really, how close they had gotten. But, at the same time they were incredibly wrong. They were so far fetched to think that we would be the victims when we discovered life on other planets.

Most of the people in these cells were humans. The cells on either side of me were empty. The cells next to them were full. They went up first, on both sides, and then across. They went from outside to inside and every other cell. This was to ensure solitude for as long as possible.

We were prisoners of war, nothing more. We were soldiers that had been captured. We were on the side of Azaya. That was their name for Earth. It was a god from one of their first religions that was started thousands and thousands of years ago.

We had named this planet Terra. We had come here because it was thought that it had organic soil, which meant plants, which meant life. It took us a year to get here being it was out of our solar system. We seem to think we've perfected our space travel. We can easily get out of our solar system and have made it so that you don't lose bone density when you go into space.

We've cured many diseases and increased our life span and the amount of time we need to go to school. Machinery has taken many of the jobs that we used to do. We have more time now to do as we wish. However, that doesn't mean that there is anything to do.

This war that we've started has grown amazingly. The allies and enemies have been mixed together and it has become the number one priority in our lives to win this war. School doesn't even seem to matter. I'm merely 14 and I am expected to be a soldier. It is apparent that I've failed.

A guard walked past my cell with a male invex. That is what they named themselves. The invex. The dominant creatures that walk this planet that they had named Kest, which in their language, pastrian, meant first. They had once been many countries, like the Earth. However, they now live under the rule of a large government system that seemed to be dying. Democracy didn't seem to work with billions of people all wanting different things. I had a feeling that a civil war may come of this inter-planet war that was currently taking place.

The guard placed the male in the cell next to me. The skin of the invex was peculiar. It ranged anywhere from pure white to an inky black all with different shades of blues for a tint. Their skin seemed to glow in the light of these cells, radiating the soft, milky white, mist of the moon’s pale glow.
Their facial features were similar to a human’s, only with a nose that stuck out less. They had ears on either side of their head that came to a long point. These were for short ranged hearing. They also had a set of antennae protruding from beneath their hair for long ranged hearing. They had evolved this way for it seemed their ears failed easily because of the use of listening devices.
Their eyes were like a human’s as well. The whites were visible and the pupil was surrounded by a colored iris. The colors went from purples and blues to greens and yellows.
Their posture was much straighter than a human’s. They were all together just, taller than a human.
Their hair colors ranged from white to black, again, with bluish tints. It seemed blues and grays were their neutrals.
They had no extra appendages that would be useless and get in their way. They had no super powers or special abilities. They were simply beings that existed. They made technology to help them, like humans did. They were similar to us, yet so very different. They had saved their planet when it was dying so long ago, and we had yet to reach that state. They were very far ahead of us. Their intelligence seemed to have increased over time. They were far beyond us it seemed. However, they still had natural instincts. They were just as competitive as humans and wanted information just as badly. However their tactics for everything were different from ours.
The guard led the male Invex into the cell next to me. His skin was a pale white with a bit of a turquoise tint to it. His skin was also grayish which made me think he didn’t go outside much.
His hair was a shaggy white mess that framed his face in a way that showed he did not want to be looked at. I could not see his eyes.
He was sat in the corner of the cell and he did not look up. He did not look at where he was. He didn’t even seem to contemplate his surroundings. He simply curled his knees to his chest and appeared to fall asleep.
I probably would have laughed at this before, but now… My thoughts fell into themselves and blended together like lines on paper. I just sat and thought about anything that came to mind, just as long as it didn’t have to do with Earth or the war. That, however, was incredibly complicated being nothing else had happened in my life. I settled my mind on the male in the cell next to me. I slowly let my thoughts drift from me until I was no longer controlling them. They just played out before me. And I did nothing but watch.