The Awakening - Chapter Seven

Several months had past. The detainees had all been reformed. There was no need to keep them locked up any longer. They no longer posed a danger to society or to themselves. Every one of their cases were examined and according to the law, each one of them was set free. It didn’t just happen in the facility that Philip worked at, it happened in all the facilities. The facilities were not shut down but they were now empty. Each detainee was given the supplement to give to others after their release. It was like an Army but they had no guns. They had no bullets. They were not out to kill people, only wake them up.

Philip sat in his office. He had nothing to do because there was no one else who needed his help. The thing that he had wanted his entire life had finally happened and he got to be a part of it. As he was thinking about this, a man came to his office. The man was an agent of the federal government. He stated that Philip was to come with him for questioning. Philip did not hesitate to comply. He had done nothing wrong. If he was going to be accused of helping these poor unfortunate souls find peace, he was guilty. They were better now. They were happier now.

Philip was blindfolded and taken somewhere. He did not know where he was. It did not matter. When the blindfold was removed he was in a small room with a bright light in it. There was no place to sit. He hands were restrained behind his back so he had no way to shield his eyes from the light apart from closing them as tight as he could. He could not see a door. It’s not because a door was not there but it was because he could not see past the bright light. If this had happened to him before his mind was cleared, he would have been afraid, but he was not afraid now. It did not matter what they did to him. He was sure that they would not stop the awakening that was going to sweep over the Earth. Philip was not a religious man. He never understood before how men could become fanatical over another person’s declared hallucinations, but he understood now. He was fanatical. He was sure that this was the salvation that mankind needed to survive and he was willing to give his life for its cause.

Philip was left alone for several days. He was deprived of food and was given water to drink out of a bowl like a cat. The reason why he was treated this way was to weaken his will and make him more willing to co-operate with those who had captured him. On the fifth day of his imprisonment he was taken to another room. He was placed at a desk. A man sat on the other side and started asking him questions.

The man showed him a picture of a person who had been a detainee at the facility in which Philip worked. The man asked Philip if he knew who the person in the picture was. Philip identified the man as being from the detention facility. The man then showed Philip a bag that contained a substance that looked like some kind of drug. The man asked Philip if he had ever seen it before. Philip confessed that he had. The man asked Philip if he was the one who supplied the substance in the bag. Philip admitted that he had done it. The man asked him what it was. Philip told him that everyone’s mind was damaged and that the substance in the bag was designed to repair that damage. The man asked if the substance in the bag was mind altering. Philip said that it was. The man asked Philip if he had taken the substance himself. Philip said that he had. Philip told the man that he also needed to have his mind repaired and that he should take some himself. The man said that Philip had been identified as the ring leader of some kind of drug trafficking operation. The operation was on a scale that nobody had ever seen before. Philip told the man that there was an awakening coming and that there was nothing that he or anybody else could do to stop it. Philip claimed that the very survival of mankind depended on it and that he would soon know the truth himself. The man thought that Philip was a drug crazed lunatic. He was sure that Philip was someone who could help uncover what was going on and possibly stop it before it was too late. After the man thought about it, it seemed that Philip was more like a religious lunatic than a drug crazed lunatic and that was worse.