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It was extremely cold, it could be described almost as absolute zero, feeling the cold Jacob tried to move but no matter how hard he tried he could not move or open his eyes, will he tried to move he realised he's whole body hurt when he tried, and when he stopped moving it still hurt but it was bearable when he did not attempt to move.

“Did I die? No, I can’t be dead, if I am then how can I still think and feel?”

He asked himself this question, even though he knew he would get no answer, he had nothing to do in this empty void, so he waited, it was boring to just to wait so he used his imagination to create world inside his head, and mental game such as division, addition, subtraction and multiplication inside, when he first started it was unbelievably difficult, he’s head was so foggy that he could not focus on what he was doing and end up forgetting the numbers, problem was the the pain that ravaged him, made him unable to focus easily, he would always become lost in the mathematics he was doing in his head getting lost in decimal places, but there was nothing else he could do he could only clench his teeth and try and resist being distracted.

“......”

“It’s been a year and 3 months how long am I going to be here? Am I in a coma I wonder?”

Jacob signed as he played with a dandelion, he stood on a cliff face, the waves crashing into the rocks hundreds of feet below, the smell of the sea was strong almost over bearing, but for Jacob it was better than darkness, he enjoyed the warmths of the sun hitting his skin, this did not warm his body but it did trick him into feeling warm, there was a nice breeze blowing his hair away from his face, as he watched the endless sunset.

“Are you afraid to die?”

He said this to another man this young man was also Jacob but a different him, Jacob called this other him Jax, this person was a creation of Jacobs he could be called an illusion, but this illusion had its own personality that was being powered by Jacobs brain, actually everything here was an illusion created by Jacob, he did this to escape the endless darkness.

He first created this illusion when he was unable to make anymore progress in his mental games, so he decided to try and create a simulation inside his brain, the first version of this illusion was just a endless blue void filled with clouds and one sun overhead this simulations got boring quickly, so he moved on to simulation two, but he was overstretching his mental limits when he created that world, it could be described as even more realistic than this simulation, had to the bang and all of existence, before it went off, his felt as would any, everything was including the timer was, be that his crashed.

So instead of going big he decided to add on slowly to this illusion and moved on to simulation 3 than 4 to 5, 6 so on and so on, at this point in time he was on simulation 867 even though it looked amazing it was relatively simple, and not a very big space this saved his thinking ability, it sizes was not more than 10 ft wide, 10 ft long, and 15 ft tall, even though he was creating this simulations, doing these mental challenges, he’s thinking ability was still limited, still being blocked by and restricted by the fog, the only change to come is he became more adept at controlling his focus.

“No I’m not afraid to die cause what's the point of being afraid of something that is inevitable, it would be as a teenager was worried about getting a pimple, they can’t so why worry.”

Jax replied solemnly. Jacob thought for a second before shaking his head.

“Jax it’s not about worrying about it or not it's a natural instinct to fear death wouldn't matter how you hide it as it approaches you will fear it and try to avoid it.”

“I do not get this logic, why must you stop something that can not be stopped?”

Jax looked visually confused his face almost stupor.

“Natural instinct it's an act of the brain, not something many can stop easily, it's like when your about to be hit your body will try to save it self in anyway possible.”

Jax still looked confused, but his confusion morphed into a blank expression his hand slowly rose as he pointed towards the sky, Jacob turned around his face that was once calm and collected looked at the sky, his expression being one a confusion.

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“Is my brain crashing?”

Jacob said aloud but that would be impossible, he checked his mental state to find no signs of his brain coming close to crashing, with his estimation he was currently using 95% of his brain, but than why was darkness slowly eating away at the sky the once blue skies became black as it was slowly absorbed into the blackness.

Not knowing what was happening he immediately canceled all his mental task except for counting, and like that Jacob was brought back to the everlasting darkness where he started, with nothing occupation him he felt pain once more and the freezing cold of the void.

Being to afraid to start any of the simulation again he simply waited, the only thing occupying his time was the counting and mental challenges.

1 year 11 months he still floated in this darkness not daring to do anything, today was different than any other for the first time in almost 2 years he felts warmth it was for no more than 3 seconds but he felts it, over the next couple of day the warmth lasted a longer amount of time 5 second, 9 seconds, 10 minute, 30 minutes, 3 hours and so on, this warmth was no to warm just being exactly the same as his body temperature, everyday he looked forward to experiencing the warmth.

It had been 30 days since he started to feel the warmth, it was up to 22 hours that he felt it almost a full day he was greatly excited for the next couple of days, he could get permanent warmth getting it for 24 hours, finally one the 2nd year of being in this darkness the warmth never disappeared.

2 years 2 months he began to notice that both the mental fog and the pain was disappearing, he was greatly relieved by this realization he did not want to spend all eternity with those aliments, even though almost a year had passed since the darkness invaded his symilation he did not dare to try it again, he was deathly afraid of what would come if he maybe did his consciousness would disappear for every if the simulation was completely swallowed will he was there, or maybe all the relife he had been experiencing would just disappear in if he opened up a simulation any way it went it was a risk he was not willing to take.

2 years 5 months, all the pain from my body has faded, and the mental fog is completely gone it is so much easier to think at then it has ever been, thanks to the combination of mental exercises and his brain’s ability being limited, it was as if an athlete was forced to run his regular times with an increase of a hundred pounds on his body when he takes off the weights after a year or more, there will be a great improvement in his speed.

Comparing my brain’s thinking ability to before the accident to my current speed I am 63% faster than I was in the past, and compared to when I got here and to my current ability I am 92% faster, if he could shake in shock he would be.

“Wait!”

Jacobs mind turned blank with even greater shock, he was able to move or to be more precise he could control the muscles in his body again and was even able to do simple things like move his fingers, this was the almost the most exciting thing he could have found was he going to be able to move again, his mouth twitched a bit until it started to move very slowly, after a full minute they ceased there movements showing that he had formed a grin.

2 years 8 months Jacob had practiced using his body every day 24 hours a day, at first when he gained control over his body it was a struggle to move it, after a lot of practice he could move his body but extremely slowly it took more than an hour to raise his hands from his waist to above his head, the only thing he could do was practice everyday moving his body, every day it would become a little easier to control his body, he also became a little faster everyday, at this point in time it took him less than 15 seconds to raise his hands.

“This is great I almost have everything I could ever want.”

“The only thing I could wish for is the leave this darkness.”

He began thinking about doing simulations against, but as soon as those thoughts entered his mind he was distracted by a new feeling, around him he felt like there were to things one was a liquid, it liquid was quite warm being the same temperature as him, he pushed his hands out there was a type of resistance from the liquid it don't slow him down at all, but it told him that this liquid was thick, will his hand was pushing forward it suddenly touched a wall, the wall was smooth yet squishy.

“This is very strange how long has this wall been here?”

He was there in a stupor for not releasing that there was a wall for the next week he felt this wall trying to figure out what it was, during this time balls started to appear in the darkness at first he thought they they were a simulation that he had turned on by accident, there were blue and red balls the blue balls passed through him and so did the red balls, though sometimes a blue ball would not pass through him, when this happened he would feel cool, and more relaxed, when a red one did not pass through he felt the same pain he felt back when he first came here, when it first happened he was scared that the pain would never go away, but in 30 seconds the pain relieved it self, the two balls would pass through each other but sometimes would crash into one another, and create a small purple ball this happened barely 47 times a day, he got lucky once the ball came towards him, he clenched his fist hoping to absorb it to see its effects, as it crashed into his skin it slowly seeped into his pores, as it did this he felt energized, as if he had enough strength to do ten thousand squats and more,.

“It’s been two weeks since he started seeing these balls, I have found a new ball it was a golden one, during these two weeks I had found that I could influence the path of some of the balls, I avoided the red balls but practiced with the blues one, also the red balls seem to have decreased in number greatly after I absorbed the first one.”

Jacob tried his best to summon the gold matter. It started to flutter towards him, once it was absorbed he felt his mind become clearer, it became easier to move.

“These balls of matter are amazing just think of the scientific advantages that would happen if we could adapt this to everyday life.”

Thinking of all the possibilities exited Jacob in more ways than one, while imagining endless outcomes his world suddenly shook, he felt as though the liquid around him was draining as it drained the wall that was in front of him started to move towards him, he still could not see but ever since he was able to see those ball’s he gained the ability to sense around him what he found was he was surrounded by walls, and now those walls where moving closer.

“Am I going to be crushed to death for real this time?"

Jacob shook violently in fear of he’s coming demise.