#2 Inside OLK

2nd

Inside OLK
“Hey Sai, you made it back in one piece,” came a vaguely familiar voice.

Then some foggy memories came back to me. This was my brothers yard.

“Gi...Gino...sorry about the flowers.”

“Hey guy, that’s alright, it’s been a dry summer. I’d like you to meet my latest... Powder, this is my brother Sai.”

“We’ve met before, haven’t we,” I asked.

“Maybe in your dreams,” she said giving me a wink.

“Let’s go inside, there are some people who want to meet you,” said Gino.

I felt I was in a dream so I pinched my cheek. Oww...that’s real enough but still everything was ‘off’ even though Powders highbeams were on and I couldn’t help but notice how bright they were.

As we reached the steps I looked up to see a crescent moon on the door and asked, “What's that symbol for?”

“It’s the OLK,” Gino said looking at me with a look of why are you asking such a question.

“Aren’t you going to stick your finger in the moon?” I asked.

“Not this time because this is the OLK,” he said.

Once inside my heart began clicking like an abused mouse during an intensive life or death game. There were monitors everywhere and so many different faces that it was like getting on a subway in Tokyo. Most of the people had their faces stretched across the glowing screens. “Who are all these people?” I asked.

“You could say my employees... their working on some virtual software,” answered Gino.

“Brother BB has something to show you. He’s right over there,” pointing at the desk next to a large terrarium filled with Venus Fly Traps and various insects, some partly ingested others partly regurgitated.

“Good to see you, BB,” the appropriate phrase to say after not seeing someone for an extended period of time.

“What’s that? We had dinner together last night but then you’ve lived a different life, haven’t you?”

“Excuse me everyone...my voyeur brother Sai has returned safely and we have succeeded with our debut program,” Gino announced. The people came and shook my hand with congratulatory remarks like, ‘Olking it’, ‘How does it feel being the first?’ and ‘Please take me with you next time.’

I was confused, overwhelmed and speechless but I kept my cool. “ Time to celebrate!” said Gino and he brought out a case of spirits and various sealed cans with gold stamps on them. BB ejected a disk and told me to come with him. He, Gino and I along with a few other people walked into a screening room with a behemothic-monitor.