I'm warm when I regain my senses, laying on something soft and covered in fluffy sheets I presume. I don't bother opening my eyes, instead I bathe in the sensation of feeling all my limbs, it doesn't hurt when I breathe either. For a few moments I enjoy being warm, I cannot imagine how I have been taking the feeling of warmth for granted since forever.

It's a few minutes of drifting in and out of blissful sleep when my mind begins working at a logical capacity. Where am I? Did Jack and George save me?

I wake up with a start, sitting upright as my heart crushes with the realization of what my eyes see. I am in a place I do not recognize, which means I wasn't rescued, enjoying the warmth a few minutes ago suddenly seems so stupid.

He is the first thing I see when I scan the room. A boy, older than me, crouching in one of the corners of the room. His quizzical look and frantic amber eyes indicates that he is taking in as much detail about me as he can. His frizzy hair, freckled cheeks and otherwise shabby look gives him a soft and non threatening look. He maintains his crouch with his eyes still set intently on me, but does nothing else.

"Where am I?"

My sudden question and probably the sound of my voice breaks his stance, and he sits on the floor. My voice is hoarse and scratchy, but it is there, a tangible improvement from when I tried to scream back at the barn. Memories of that experience come flooding in and I realize I have no idea how much time has passed since I was abducted.

I push the traumatizing memories to the back of my mind and concentrate on the boy before me. He is my best bet at gaining some useful information. I swallow loudly, trying to lubricate my throat before trying again.

'where am I?, please."

A touch of emotion never hurt, especially when asking for information. I notice the boy is in pajama like white clothing, Loose pants, a bit big for his scrawny figure and a long sleeved collared shirt. His feet are tucked into crocs that match his entire attire.

I glance down at my own hands and notice the same colored clothes. I shudder at the thought that someone undressed me then re-dressed me. I pull off the covers to reveal the lower half of my body and see a familiar set of white colored pants. Someone definitely saw me naked.

I unconsciously reach for my left wrist, lightly touching it and expecting to feel pain at the point where icy Jay grabbed me and feel nothing but a bracelet like accessory. That's weird, I didn't have that before. I pull back my left sleeve to reveal a wrist band, firmly attached to my arm, with the number 42 boldly printed on it.

"They're called tags."

So he speaks huh? I look to the other side of the room to see the boy sitting on his bed, now moved from his broody corner.

"I'm Nathan, sorry for being weird earlier, can't be too careful in here."

Tags huh? Well I'm no animal, I am a living and breathing girl. I try pulling at the band but it won't budge. Looking at it I wouldn't have thought a rubber like band would be tough as steel.

"They can't come off, better to just leave It ther"

I flex my left fingers and realize with the absence of cold I could probably use my abilities again. Keeping the physical form of my right arm, I pass it through my left arm, which is in a phased state and easily get the band off. I whoop a victorious aha!

"How in heavens mercy did you do that?"

I giggle. Nathan's amusement does a little to raise my dampened spirit.

"I've got abilities," I explain, "I'm Leah, nice to meet you Nathan."

"No shit, that was so cool, no one here has ever been able to take them off." His eyes are still wide with awe at my little trick but he doesn't answer my question.

"You didn't answer, where am I? Why am I here?"

"Why are any of us here, I would like to know too." Nathan laughs as he adjusts his position on the thick mattress set on the floor.

On a normal day I would have been patient with such a cheeky character but today wasn't a normal day. I need to get out of here. I study the walls for the first time, just concrete, should be easy enough to phase through. I stand up and move to make my escape from this weird cell like room.

"Hey, don't do something stupid Leah, where are you going?" He makes to stand up, "I honestly don't know where we are."

I wave him off as I approach the wall. Just to be sure, I sink my fingers into the wall and feel the familiar tingling sensation, good, I sigh a relief, everything's working again. I look back at Nathan just in time to see his unbelievably wide eyes as I vanish behind our room wall.

On instinct, I turn myself invisible as soon as I'm clear of the wall. They will never know I'm gone. I find myself in a long hallway, painted white and full of fluorescent lights. Some additional features on the wall worry me, this might not be a flawless escape as I had hoped.

Surveillance cameras are pinned on either side of the hallway after every couple meters. I always thought my glimmer was a cool thing, back when I assumed I had no weakness. If they pinpoint my location, whoever kidnapped me could just have Jay come and knock me out again, I have to be careful. I'm not going to use the hallways.

I set my eyes on the wall ahead of me and move towards it, this way even if they see me through the cameras, they won't be able to get to me easily.

The room beyond the wall isn't a room, but seems like a field instead. Sun rays brighten the atmosphere, as mid sized trees litter the ground. What's more I see children, some younger than me and some way older than me, all in white plain pajamas.

I count almost 30 individuals doing various activities, some running about, some playing various games while others just lay on sheets and mats in the park-like field. just to make sure I'm not deceived, I look back at the wall I just phased through, and sigh when I find it still there.

The wall stretches out in a circular shape, both upwards and sideways. I follow its direction upwards and realize that I'm in fact still indoors. What should be the sky and the sun are simply a colored shimmering ceiling and a single light frighteningly similar to the sun.

The entire shape of the room is dome like and stretches to almost the size of a football stadium. The extent to which the architects went to make this room realistic can only be described as genius. Could the plants be fake too? I crouch down and pull out a blade of grass from the neatly mowed lawn littered with fallen flowers. It's real, I kick at the ground and dig out soil, the ground isn't concrete either. What is this place.

For a few moments I am ensnared by the perfect beauty created in the dome-shaped room, could such a place even exist naturally somewhere in the world? Birds fly back and forth, chirping their inviting melodies as flowers of all colors bloom on plants of various shapes and sizes. The mid sized trees each have different shaped leaves and carry a different color of what I could only guess were fruits. Why in heavens would Nathan be locked up in a gloomy room if such a paradise existed only a few paces away.

From the corner of my eye I notice them, people in a familiar outfit, my heart hastens its beat when I discover more of them, lined up along the circular walls of the dome each holding a baton. The same black spandex like clothes that my kidnappers wore shake my senses back to reality. This was no paradise, this must be a fancy prison for kidnapped children.

However, despite the numerous guards surrounding them, the 30 or so kids in the dome go about their activities as if unaware of their presence, what is going on? A shrill noise frightens me almost to the point of loosing my hold on invisibility. A bell like sound, low sounding yet entirely piercing rings and fills the dome with its uncomfortable resonation.

Could it be they already noticed my absence in the room I just left? The black clad guards remain unmoving despite the bell, which calms me somewhat. Had the bell been an alarm I would have expected them to erupt into a frenzy of coordinated movement like the two I met in the freezing barn.

Something strange was going on though, all the calm children and young adults present in the dome ceased their activities and began filing out of the dome through a single exit located along the dome's walls. Everyone is acting like a programmed drone, walking behind each other, heads bent, initial conversations ceased as they leave the dome.

For some reason I couldn't move from where I stood after phasing in from the corridor. The wheels of thought turn in my mind, trying to make sense of what this place was. I snap out of it and decide to head to another part of the wall when I see him, Nathan walking into the dome, followed by another 30 individuals, all different from the ones who just left.

Just how many people were held here? I don't have time to answer my own question when what I dreaded since walking in here happens. The black clad guards burst into movement just as an announcement rings clear through the same speakers the bell had previously rang from.

"The escaped girl is in the Nature Dome! I repeat, the escaped girl is in the Nature Dome!"

The shock my face must be showing is reflected on Nathan's face, and I see him look around him frantically, trying to locate me. As I thought, this must be the nature dome. There must be a rotation and a time limit, a who and when regarding how the nature dome was shared. It was now Nathan and his group's turn to spend some time here. The guards must have discovered my absence when Nathan was let out of his room moments ago, luck just isn't on my side.

The black clad guards put on black sunglasses similar to those I saw on the two back in the barn. The moment they do so the sun lit dome loses it's orange hue as fluorescent tubes turn on above me where the sky should have been. Just below the lights, a white mist begins seeping into the dome through vents and I immediately know what's going on. They are trying to freeze me in here.

I break into a sprint, heading for Nathan, with him I might have a chance at escaping. I whisper into his ear the moment I'm by his statue like form, I realize just how tall he is and have to hold his arm and pull him down.

"It's me, Leah, I'm escaping, let's go."

I blink and will him invisible, pulling him behind me as I run towards the wall. For some reason he follows without question, that's a good boy. By the time we gain some ground, the white mist has descended almost halfway down the dome and is right above Nathan's head, the temperature too has dropped significantly but my control over my abilities remains. That's good, time to break out of here.

As we close in on the wall, the cold intensifies and I lose my hold on keeping two people invisible. I know our cover is blown once I hear one guard shout the direction of our position.

They all run towards us, those closest to us dangerously threatening our escape. I look up at Nathan and find his amber eyes looking down at me as we run. I notice confusion and panic, with a hint of confidence in his eyes. Holding my hand tighter, he wills me forward seeming to know what our exit will be.

I'm slowing down but it doesn't matter, the wall is right at our faces. With a scream and one last jump, I concentrate all my energy into phasing through the wall with Nathan in tow behind me. The familiar tingling sensation signals my success as all energy is sapped from my body.

The mist got to us. I realize as we fall past the wall that I'm freezing, then everything goes dark once again.