Ugh… my head hurts. I open my eyes to see the ceiling. I am lying down on a floor. I slide myself up to the nearest wall, slouched and in pain.

I don’t…how….?

Going through my head to try to remember what I was doing.

I am a ghoul investigator. I was given a case to hunt down a certain “suspect”. I left my office… blank. Nothing. My memory stops there. I don’t know how I got here…

But what I can assume is that instead of me finding my suspect, the suspect found me.

I look around a bit more. I was sitting up against a door. There were doors evenly spaced out to all directions. I could see upward to higher levels of this complex. I think this is an apartment complex. The whole structure seemed to be shaped as a square with apartments lined up on the line of that square. And in the middle, empty space.

I got up, clutching the right side of my waist, in pain. I dragged myself to the railing to look over the edge towards the middle of the complex. I could not see the ground… then I looked up, I could not see a ceiling or a sky.

I don’t know exactly what is happening, but I have to figure it out. It’s my job.

I begin to walk along the railing until I reached an elevator. Something was odd about it. It looked very new, compared to this complex. It was also huge, about 12 feet wide. Noticing earlier that I couldn’t see any stairs, I pushed the elevator button.

-Ding ding-

The elevator doors opened. Two pairs of eyes met mine. They stared at me. They remained silent. Unknowing of what to do, while holding on to my suspicion, I step into the elevator. The eyes did not follow me. They simply stood in place, didn’t move, didn’t turn, didn’t anything. I walked to the farthest side of the elevator. Those two stood right in front of when the doors were, where I got on. Then the doors slid closed.

This elevator had two doors on opposite sides. The interior of the elevator was a very polished stainless steel, like it was just installed today.

As I stood there, I realized I didn’t click a button or a number on the elevator. I stared at the button panel and blinked long.

Opening my eyes, I was definitely not in the elevator anymore.

I was in a square, dark room. Three stone walls and one with metal bars. A small opening on one of the walls revealed the outside. It was night time, striking a storm. Heavy rainfall and lightning struck.

Lightning struck near, filling the dark room with a quick flash of light. I was not alone. From repeated flashes of light, I noticed two figures in this room with me. More flashes came through. They were both chained to the walls.

Wait… they look familiar…

…

They were the two pairs of eyes that stared at me in that elevator.

Who are they? Why are they here? Why am I here? WHERE IS HERE?!

-END

NOTE: In this dream, there are references to Tokyo Ghoul and Shutter Island.