Everything changed at the moment he touched his hand. Alan felt a strong surge of energy passing through his body. He found himself lying on a bed, inside a room unknown to him. For the first couple of seconds he was not moving. Only his eyes were observing the place and everything in it. “What year it is?” he asked himself. Alan stood up and saw a laptop on a desk next to the window. He slowly got closer to it and saw the current date — 13th of December 2013.
“Thirty years…” he said.
Alan decided to leave the apartment and to go out for a walk. He was going down the stairs noticing the graffiti on the walls and the rubbish on the floors. Slowly came out of the building and saw a gray city in front of his eyes. He started walking on the street, feeling the world and its spirit. While passing a park, he noticed a strange man wearing sunglasses and reading a newspaper around ten meters away from him. There was something about this person, which attracted Alan and he stared at him trying to remember if he knew him. Suddenly the man put the newspaper on his knees, looked at Alan for a second and with his right hand, he slowly reached for his sunglasses. With his thumb and his pointing finger, he pulled them slowly down. Alan was surprised for a second. The pupils of this person changed their shape from human to a cat looking ones. He squinted with his eyes and realized that he was looking at one of the creatures from the Sokrahnaluth's race…
Back on the spaceship, Sokrahnaluth was checking Alan's condition. Everything was all right. She slowly walked towards the door looking at Alan's face, then turned the lights off and left the room. A little monitor next to his bed was showing on its screen:
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