Kimberly looked around the compact room; she had been placed in a private sector. The light in the room was dazzling, it was too bright that Kimberly had to squint her recently returned vision. The smell in the air was clean but slightly chemical, more like the smell of disinfectant along with the slight linger of burnt toast. This was most likely came from the kitchen. Kimberly had a thought to herself, the light being so bright and the smell of something burning. Holy crap, what had happened at the factory?
The thought of remembering the factory collapsing round her brought a shiver down her spine, “I could have died in there.” She spoke out loud to herself in a panic. Kimberly glances round the room again, she notices the curtains are faded blue and hung one side on a curtain tail that goes round the position of where the hospital bed is placed. The thought of blue eyes and the mystery man triggers back into her mind, she sighs to calm herself down, just remembering him again makes her feel at ease. Who was he? She thought again to herself. From what she recalls there was no one around, then suddenly as things went dark and feeling faint, this person appeared from nowhere.
Her thought process is interrupted by the door to her room opening; a nurse quietly walks into the room to check on Kimberly, expecting her to still be asleep. The nurse smiles at her. “Good to see your now awake Miss Lowe. The doctor will come and see you shortly; he just wants to carry out a couple of tests before a decision is made to discharge you.”
“How did I get here?” Asked Kimberly trying to sound confused and puzzled. “Everyone had left me inside the factory, I was trapped.” The nurse just kindly smiled at her, “Oh no they found you unconscious outside the factory.”
“I must have hit my head when I fainted as I can’t really remember how I got out of there.” Even though Kimberly knew full well how she managed to have escaped from the factory, her mission now was to find this mystery man and discover his identity.
2.
At the site where the factory previously was, detectives and forensics were hard at work investigating what had happened and what caused the lightning and thunder to target the factory. Tremendous masses of rubble, dust and metal surrounded the site; as if nothing could have survived the collapsed factory. The smell of burnt wood lingered the area still even though there was no fire active at this moment in time, unaware to the detectives was someone in the shadows watching their every move.
“I have found a stiletto shoe.” Shouts one of the detectives. He was standing in the position where Kimberly had her episode with the mysterious man. “I think it is the shoe from the survivor Miss Lowe, who is currently in hospital. But how did she escape before the building collapsed over her? The position where this shoe is to where she was found outside shows she would not have made it in time. I think we need to send an officer to obtain a statement from her.”
“I think she has been discharged already, I shall radio the station now to find her whereabouts and for all patrolling officers to keep a look out.”
The figure in the shadows overhears the conversation between the detectives to search for Kimberly; he moves away rapidly from the factory site and sprints to the hills heading towards the local town. The person in the shadow’s is Kimberly’s mystery man.
Kimberly waited patiently outside the hospital for her taxi to arrive; she needed the fresh air to try help focus her mind on the recent events. But the memory of the mystery man and his south sea-blue eyes would not leave her alone. Just thinking of him gave a warm fuzzy feeling inside making her feel safe. The sound of an ambulance siren interrupted her thought process, the ambulance raced past Kimberly and headed onto the main road. The taxi appears to be taking too long. She looks at her pandora watch with a purple strap on it, the strap is covered in dust and the face of the watch has a crack on it. ‘Damn, I love this watch and now it is ruined.’ Kimberly thought to herself, she felt quite disheartened that her favourite watch had been wrecked. In her irritated mood, Kimberly is bored of waiting for the taxi, so she decides a gracious walk home will calm her down.
The weather was warm, the sun glowed through the sky and there appeared to not be a black cloud in site compared to how the weather was the day before and the monstrous thunderstorm that erupted the town and caused the factory to collapse. The smell of fresh cut grass filled the air. The local residents were taking advantage of the lovely weather to mow their lawns and small groups of families set up picnics in the local park.
The park was a beautiful and very scenic area, there were trees planted throughout the park and a stream flowed through the centre. The sound of trickling water was heard throughout the park, there was a water feature right in the centre of the stream
