“Welcome to New Beginnings.”

The blanched walls suddenly burst forth with color and motion. Various types of green vegetation appeared at her feet. Trees of different shapes and sizes stretched high into the air. The sky above her was a clear majestic blue; the clouds a brilliant white.

“Choose your reality.”

Shea wasn’t sure she was doing the right thing. Life wasn’t the best it had ever been, but it certainly wasn’t the worst. Many years ago her father (Dr. Holmes, the famous epidemiologist of the 2190’s) had told her: ‘Always make the best of what you have, because you never know when it will all be taken away’.

Shea smiled as she pulled the small black device from her pocket. Daddy would be so proud.

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!”

At the instant she pushed the button the walls surrounding her turned black. Thousands of lines of hash-code shot out from below her up the walls and far overhead. After but a moment of time, the green and blue reality reappeared- but Shea was gone.