He smiled a tight-lipped grin filled with nothing but hate. That’s what it was, hate. He didn’t think he was a good guy doing the good thing for the good of humanity. He hated humanity. He hated every good intentioned, well meaning, and selfless person that filled every spec of space on that ugly rock they called a planet.

I struggled against my bindings, the heat of the room making it impossible to think about anything else. Nathan stood smirking, looking over his shoulder at me. The attention of the entire universe felt like it was watching this moment, with Nathans hands on the controls and the slow whine buiding to a deafening level.

“Don’t do it!” I shouted, knowing his ears would reject the words. The pressure of the room was building and on the other side it a large hatch had started to open.

A light piereced into the room, and everything seemed to lean into the growing opening as the hatch grew wider , and I could start to see it.

The bright light seemed to surround a metallic sphere that didn’t seem possible to radiate the luminance. Nathan lost in it’s majesty, began to take steps toward it. The smile was gone, replaced with an open jaw and wide eyes. Searching for something within it’s blinding radiance, he approached it slowly.

Something changed within it, a darkness formed. A blurry darkness moved within the light, and Nathan brought a hand up as if to move the light to the side like a curtain.

From my vantage pont, tied up on the floor, I could see Nathan steps start to slow and the light within the chamber pulsed once, as if a surge of power.

Nathan was speaking.

I could see his mouth moving, slowly at first. He was cautious and would seemingly wait for a reply, then he started to speak faster.

There was another pulse.

Nathan was speaking faster and more agitated.

A double pulse, this one had a physical force to it emanating from the light and pushed me back against the wall. I could see Nathan struggle to keep his footing. He was pointing at the light angrily, shouting from what I could tell commands.

The darkness within the light became more prominent, and it became clear to me the darkness was a figure who moved within the illumination of this light. It took meaningful steps that seemed to not even register, and it had crossed the distance between Nathan and the chamber in less time than it looked.

Nathan was no longer shouting, or pointing. He was hardly even looking at the individual.

I cannot begin to describe the form, for to me it just appeared to be the shadow of a person but standing where the person who cast it should be. A blur manifested and moving on it’s own. Before I could continue to take in this figure, Nathan was no more. Starting from his feet and moving up to his ears he became dust, and in an instant there was nothing left. In the same moment, the bindings around my hands, and feet also turned to dust.

pt 2: …