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In a galaxy neither too far away nor at a very close proximity either, an emotional caretaker made her living on assisting the Deb Foundations' higher-ups in their everyday tasks. For her hard work of fetching this and fetching that, she recieved the brilliant award namely the Achievement Award of Debs' Amahzing Employees. Thereafter, she was swept by a horde of thirsty hawks, streaked with crimson linings and carrying deadly razor talons, to an unknown island three miles from the galaxy's orbit. She thought she would die. She didn't, not at all. Instead, she opens her eyes hesitantly, only to find darkness staring at her. Pitch black, without the little glimmers she would usually manage to detect before slumbering. A vacuum, no sound, save for the frantic heartbeat of the dissheveled caretaker's atriums. Where was this strange void?

Then, as if to reply, everything was blinding-- light poured from every nook and cranny of her vision and seeped into her eyelids, even when she closed them. Then came the sounds, bustling and chattering, clinking and clacking, overwhelming noises that pierced her eardrums. As she adjusted to her surroundings, her eyes slowly mapped the scene before her as the white mist retreated. Taking a mental note to order tinted glasses if she were ever to survive, the petite wanderer entered her new setting.

She noticed several things until she got the big picture.

One- People, strange people, with two feet and two arms and a speaking edifice that appeared to allow communication among themselves.
Two- Exotic dishes, of which the favorite was the popping kernel of yellow color, were passed around to those people, who apparently also used the speaking edifice to consume energy.
Three, and by far the most astonishing realization- Heartbeats were everywhere. She felt the innumerable rhythm of thump thump thumps as if they were her own.

She had no time to ruminate on this enigma, ony time to react as the tempo accelerated, stacatto beats because no room was left for anything more. The people engulfed her from all sides, touching her with those limbs she had so warily inspected. The weak-hearted caretaker could not stand this nauseating new universe.