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"Brian! Snap out of it man!" Nick tried to get Brian's attention.

When he spoke, his voice was flat. "I don't feel well, I'm going to go lay down," Brian excused himself and went to his bunk. He hadn't been lying, but it wasn't the complete truth. He didn't feel that good, but he knew it was nerves. He just wanted to be alone to think.

As Brian's eyes closed and his mind drifted to sleep, he heard talking. He knew there were two voices but he didn't know what they were saying. They spoke in a language he had never heard before, yet part of him understood what they were saying. Brian listened closely and made out a few things.

"Shh... he's on to us!"

"No he's not, he's sleeping! Besides he can't understand us!" the second voice argued.

"If he's part Nyton, he'll know."

Brian pondered what the voice had said, 'Part Nyton? What the hell is that?' He decided to keep listening.

"But...."

"We must go now, he knows!"

There was silence. 'What the hell was that?' Brian's mind screamed. He glanced around and saw nothing. 'What do they mean part Nyton? What's Nyton? They couldn't be talking about me could they?' The questions ran through his brain too quickly for him to decipher. The only thing that registered in his mine was confusion. Soon it became too much for him and he fell into an uneasy sleep.

"Hey Nick, have you ever heard of Nyton?" Brian asked Nick the next day.

"Hmm... is it a video game? It sounds like one of the worlds or something," Nick pondered as he concentrated on the animated characters on the screen.

"No, it's not a video game."

"Oh, I dunno them.... No! Go left, not right! No! Stay out of the water!.... SH*T! I lost again!" Nick fiercely pushed the buttons on the game controller.

"Thanks for all you help Nick." Brian stood up, unamused.

Nick started a new game. "No prob, any time bro."

Brian rolled his eyes and left looking for someone else to talk to. "Hey AJ, have you ever heard of Nyton?"

AJ thought a second. "Is it something from one of Nick's video games?"

Brian let out a frustrated sigh. "It's not a video game. Like, I dunno... have you ever heard of something or someone being part Nyton?"

"Hmm.... Well, um.... You see...." AJ fumbled.

Brian couldn't help but smile. "You have no idea do you?"

"Not a freakin' clue!" AJ replied. "Where did this come from anyway?"

"A dream."

"Wanna tell me about it?"

"Not really."

"Well, if you want to talk you know where I am." AJ shrugged.

"Thanks man." Brian walked off again.

"See, I told you, he's on to us!" the older figure announced in the ancient language. "He heard us last night."

"But how? And how could he understand us?"

The older one sighed, "Must I explain everything twice? He is part Nyton, he knows the language even though he doesn't know that fact. He thinks he's 100% human, that is if the thought ever occurred to him."

"Oh, I get it now. So what's the plan?"

"All we can do now is wait."

Brian sat by himself. Thoughts ran through his head. 'What the hell is Nyton? Why does everyone think it's a video game? Then again, if I didn't know better and Nick asked me what Nyton was I'd probably think it was a video game.'

"Hey Rok," Nick greeted as he turned on the tv to his favorite show, "X-Files."

"Hey," Brian watched the show for a minute. It was the episode where everything was being explained. A thought occurred to him. 'Maybe I'm not completely human.' He shook his head. 'That sounds like something Nick would come up with! Maybe he and I have been watching too much sci-fi. Now I wonder if Mulder was a real person if he would know what Nyton is?' Brian hit his head and mentally scolded himself. 'Stop that! it's probably just nothing.'

That evening, during sound check, Brian began to feel dizzy. The world spun around him. His mind was disoriented, yet alert at the same time. His eyes failed to focus on anything. Time began to slow, and it became thick like mud. Darkness enveloped and he openly accepted it.
 
 

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