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"They stood in rows, like stalks of wheat in the shimmering light. There was never any wind and yet, from the heights, you could see the beginning of a soft wave indicating a flicker of equilibrium lost and found again.
They were not allowed to lean against each other. Their eyes were fixed to the small opening of a nearby rock. Sometimes, water gushed from that opening and filled a small basin. The Overseers would come by and pick the ones closest to fainting, remove their apparatus and take them for a drink at the edge of the basin.
Their heads were covered with a shawl to protect the delicate instruments from the heat and protect the skin of the shaved patch each one of them found on top of his head on "The Morning After."
They called it "The Morning After" in soft whispers among themselves, because they had been told not to remember the night of the "Great Pain".
How could they forget leaving the old ones, the women, the children and the few animals they owned as soon as the Overseers came to their tents? They were told to follow each other in single file to a large elliptic and shiny Temple which seemed to have sprung suddenly from the ground in the middle of their camp.
On "The Morning After", they woke up slowly, feeling strange and very thirsty. They discovered that they had bandages they were told not to touch. One covered their groin, the other the top of their head. As soon as they could walk out of the Temple, they were given small dark boxes attached to long leather straps.
Every morning, the Overseers adjusted one box on their forehead and one on their arm and tightened the straps. They eventually learned to do it themselves.
They were treated kindly while they wrapped the straps around their heads to secure the box, and at first they helped each other with the other one on their arm.
The Overseers took them to a secluded place and made a signal towards the sky.
In time, they learned to repeat very precisely the few orders given to them each day. The memorization was difficult when the list of orders got lengthier, but they tried hard to remember everything in sequence because of the pain they felt should they forget anything, or let their mind wander past their daily task.
As soon as the Overseers signaled towards the sky, they felt a slight buzzing inside their skull. That was their own signal to begin chanting softly all the orders they had so carefully learned day by day. As long as they concentrated and performed in sequence, nothing unpleasant happened.
They swayed peacefully, muttering together, holding their shawls to protect the apparatus from the heat and the dust.
Once or twice each day, someone fell to the ground and was carried to the big elliptic metal Tent. There, some tall Priests dressed in the purest white linen tunics, listened to the heart of those who had fallen and tinkered with their forehead-box. It was always a moment of terror, when the Priest opened that box. One had to keep the eyes tightly shut because no one, except a Priest, was to open a box and look at its contents.
Any inquisitive attempt meant instant death at the hand of the Overseers.
What was in these boxes?
They didn't dare ask themselves or each other. They thought that the box on their forehead spoke to Someone, perhaps a god, who lived in the sky.
The box on their arm made a soft noise when they fell unconscious to the floor, but it didn't hurt inside the head, like the forehead-box, when part of the lesson was forgotten, or some other thought interfered with the repetition."
