STORY STARTER
Submitted by RRR
Two people find themselves in an empty room, but do not know where they are. This is completely normal.
Find a creative way to explain this setting and context. You do not have to set this story in the world we know.
Steel is You
Again.
Why? Why am I here?
Again.
Before my eyes—is you.
You always appear when I am here, confined within there walls whose make bears no resemblance to steel, yet steel is all I feel.
It makes my body shiver, my teeth and ears ring. My mind locks at the sight. I huddle within myself as if I am cold inside this room, though the temperature feels just right.
I know the source of this steel.
This steel is you.
Because although I am clueless to where I am at this moment—and perhaps throughout the entirety of my surviving existence—I know you.
But why do you appear?
I am constantly seeing you here.
We have been here for so many times.
Shouldn't this be over?
Why are we here?
You appear and do nothing. I see you and do nothing. We accomplish nil in this room.
So why do we keep appearing here?
Should I ask you, the only other I know?
But you will not reply—you never reply, and you only ask.
Questions, questions, questions.
I'm sick and tired of questions.
What I want is an answer. All I want is an answer.
Why must we remain trapped in here?
Steel, you are my only companion.
Can you answer me, just this once before we repeat this again?