Richard Logan

The people's crypto

Some people speculated they were lizard people, shapeshifters or aliens, the unseen evil were humans, but with something missing a certain cold emptiness that you could see in their unfeeling eyes, I avoided their gaze out of some irrational fear that it would curdle my blood or cause my heart to explode. What was missing from these people that made them hardly human? a heart? Perhaps that is where the rumours of lizards began, with nothing to pump blood around their body they must be cold blooded beings, vampires devoid of actual life. What I thought was missing was a conscious a care for their fellow human, stuck in the swings of manipulation pulling the unseen strings of society like children with the world as their toy, no other motivation other than curiosity at what would happen if they pulled a certain thread, a war, a disease, a financial crisis, what couldn’t they manipulate, the weather? Who knows? Not me. Employed on a need-to-know basis, you might ask yourself how I ended up in this room with the superpowers of the world, the unseen elite, pale old men with money in place of their conscience and unquenchable hunger for power over the world and, sociopathic passions for manipulation of society. And that is why I was there, a computer programmer, with basic needs, no hunger for money and a passion for solving the problems society faced. I don’t belong here, I thought I was smart, not smart enough, I was here because I was useful, for my powers of manipulating the world with technology only I never saw it as manipulation, the room had no windows a round table I sat chained to the chair with every horrible scenario filling my head with terror, every second hope was shrivelling away I knew, with almost unfaltering certainty that I wouldn’t leave this room alive, the logical part of my brain knew but something, instinct maybe kept the flame of hope glimmering, how I got here I didn’t know 30 days ago I woke up slowly I hadn’t drunk much more than normal, but a my body was heavy and mind foggy like id drank a bar dry. Oh god the room span like I was inside a ball thrown around in a wild ocean.