Darkness settled over the floating city of Alena. It was a cold white metallic jungle of buildings. In complete contrast to the organic one it floated above. The glow of the bright city lights drowned out the stars in the sky that should have been clearly visible from the floating city of Alena. Celeste grunted in disproval, in her hometown of Serenity City, she had looked forward to watching the stars every night. She had spent her whole life in the warm bohemian embrace of Serenity City but Alena City just got more depressing each day that she spent here.

Celeste was standing in a bedroom that was in one of the tallest buildings of Alena City. She was in a spacious apartment in the upper most levels of the building. In her bedroom, the entire wall that she stood in front of was covered floor to ceiling with one way glass, though the view was rather wasted. All you could see from here was a sea of buildings dotted with glows of light shining from the windows creating a warm halo of electric light that made everything else invisible darkness.

Celeste stepped away from the window in annoyance. Her bed hovered off the floor gently rocking up and down. She thought it was over the top to have a bed that rocked you to sleep. Yet all the bedrooms of the apartment had them. At the foot of the bed, suspended from the ceiling, was a large see through glass bubble like chair with a soft cushioned lining on the inside. She positioned herself, sitting in the round chair. This apartment was just to the taste of her parents. Celeste found her parent’s apartment extremely excessive and quite honestly, kind of tacky.

Celeste regretted that she would be staying here with her parents until her Grandmother returned. She regretted even more that she could never have been able to afford renting out her own place in Alena city. Instead she was here, staying with her parents; stuck in this tall building, filled with over the top electronics simulating life in every corner. It was all so artificial. Just as she thought this, the doors to her room smoothly slid open and the most artificial piece of electronic glided in to stop a short way from where she sat in the bubble chair. This piece of technology was a robot with a round head and body. Its face was smooth and white except for two glowing blue dots for eyes. “Miss, It’s time for your daily health check. Please be still while I take a reading,” the robot’s voice was disturbingly human like.

Celeste cringed at the robot’s voice, it was unnatural coming from this piece of hardware. Why on earth human adults needed a robot to know if they were sick or not, she would never understand. “Go away Robot! I’m not in the mood,” She replied. It was rather weird to be talking so directly to a chunk of metal and circuits. “My programmed name is Hudson, Please feel free to use that name,” the robot said politely. Celeste glared at him as he went on, “Miss Sidman, Now is the optimal time to take a reading. If you would please hold out your arm…” As Hudson started to move closer towards Celeste, she raised her voice at him, “I said no Hudson!”

In that moment Hudson froze in place his dotted blue eyes started blinking on and off. “What are you doing?” She asked. Hudson did not move and his eyes blinked faster. “Stop that,” Celeste said pulling her legs to her chest so that her whole body was in the glass bubble chair. Suddenly all the lights in the room went off and a few seconds after, finally Hudson’s lights dimmed into complete darkness.