Silver Spoon, upon waking up in an unfamiliar place, jumped up in bed, but did little else as she let her heart rate settle back to normal.

Looking around, she realized she was still in the same place she was in before. ".... So it wasn't a dream." She says before collapsing back into the bed.

Looking at the ceiling, she wonders what's going to happen to her now. She didn't sit around to find out, getting up she began looking around the room some more.

Seeing an extra room, she looks inside to see a bathroom. It was quite basic and not as advanced as the rest of the place, Silver supposed that despite the clear advancement in technologies, bathrooms seem to remain the same no matter where you go, be it the future, or a different dimension.

Walking fully into the bathroom, Silver looked at its facilities. "Oh good, they have showers." She starts before looking at the controls to it. Seeming rather archaic compared to the rest of the building, she was rather thankful for that, given she was used to this type of design.

"It's almost like it was made purposely straightforward." She wonders aloud. One handle was Red, and another Blue, with two large arrows pointing in the direction to turn it on.

"Hmmm." She thinks, debating on using it. Figuring she didn't want to be sweaty after all her running yesterday, she got in.

Thinking about it, she wondered how long it's actually been since she left.

Turning both handles at the same time, she expected the water to either be too hot or too cold. But just as it started to hit her matted fur, she could tell it was the perfect temp.

"Ooooohh, yeah." She cooed as the water started to do its magic. "Shower now, think of time later." She said looking for anything to use, be it soap, or buck, even mane conditioner would be nice.

Spotting what she assumed to be said mane conditioner, she grabbed it before looking at the label.

The language looked to be nothing more than squiggly lines to Silver Spoon but on the other hoof, why keep it in here if it's not for her mane?

Dabbing a good-sized glob into her hoof, she put the bottle down before lathering her mane.

"Aahh." She sighs, thinking about who built this place. "Aliens?" She guessed, not thinking too hard about it before going back to relaxing.

After a few minutes of washing, she decides she's done before turning off the taps at the same time.

Looking for a towel to dry herself, she quickly finds them. Reaching into a small alcove of a shelf, she grabs two, using one for her mane and another for her body, she wraps them around her before walking back into what appears to be her new room for the time being.

Still dripping wet, she very obviously avoids the bed, instead sitting down at the table. However, looking back at the bed, it appears as if it's remade itself, ready to be slept in again. "Neat." and that's all Silver says about that before focusing on something else.

That being nothing. Silver Doesn't really know what to do now. Sure she got a good rest and she took a nice and totally normal and not long shower.

But now?

She doesn't really know what to do, as far as she can tell there are no living people here, and even if there were, they probably won't be able to communicate, given the language barrier.

And she can't just ask one of the golden beings for help... can she?

Deciding that while it's not a fruitless endeavor, it would still most probably prove useless.

While she wanted to go home. She's just not sure if she can be taken home anymore. That monster stole her away from everything, everyone, and then, the golden being completely destroyed that place, so to Silver, there may not be a home to go back to.

And besides, there may as well not be any other place safer than here.

"Hmmm." She thinks out loud before deciding to fully dry herself off before continuing.

Placing the towels over some hooks in the bathroom she began looking for a brush, for a while, she was wondering how she would reach said hooks, until they lowered themselves down to her size.

After brushing her mane back into her favorite style, big thanks to the large mirror in the bathroom, she walked back to the nightstand before retrieving her glasses and putting them on.

Looking around her new room once more, she decides to get a closer look at the vending machine. Doing a double take, she sees pictures of many foods she recognizes. Hayburger, milkshakes, ice cream, and a whole host of other foods and desserts.

Licking her lips a little, she presses the food image of a hayburger. It dispensed the food at the bottom of the machine.

While Silver was pretty sure it was breakfast time, that or the middle of the night, she didn't care, she was hungry all the same.

Looking back at the machine before she leaves, she wonders if... "Drinks?" she asked it. The selection quickly turned to that of drinks. Smiling at the voice-activated food dispensing machine, she looks for something good to drink.

Choosing a drink to have, with pictures alone, was very much a pain. Other than the darker-colored drinks, and anything with actual color in it, it all just looked like water.

Sure, she assumed the first one was water, and she was right, the rest had to be something else, but she really didn't want to test all the drinks.

Plus she also got a weird feeling that she was being billed for the food, but that could just be her nerves.

Having a full belly, soft cozy fur, and a albeit somewhat puffy mane, she was quite happy. But still quite curious. Looking at the screen giving off information on the small desk, she wondered what exactly she was seeing on it. Getting closer yielded some results.

From what Silver can put together, it's mostly just something repeating, over and over constantly, sadly with her unable to read the squiggly line language, she gave up quite early, the lack of pictures only helped with that.

Getting tired of the room she was in, she looked to where she had come from, trotting up to it, she said "Open." and it did. Smiling at her power of speaking at things and them doing said thing, she looked out into the small hallway, while she didn't explore at all originally, there wasn't much to explore. Other than the first large room full of the same screen monitors, all with seemingly something different on it.

There was a long window peering out to see the limitless number of yellow beings, only now does she begin to think that they may be machines of some kind.

"But why would it bring me here?" She asked no one, and so no one replied.

There was a small desk near the front double doors, seeming to be a secretary's desk of some sort, it clearly abandoned by whoever used to be here before.

Other than another door that leads upstairs and downstairs to the infinite catwalks, each floor has a carbon copy of the building she was in.

There was nothing else here.

Author's Note

Holy moly, I won't lie, The story kind of took a turn from where I originally wanted to go with it, but hey, I kind of like it thus far.

(Especially with a title like "Blood in the machine." I mean, like, not even I know what will happen next!!! jk.)

Joking aside, It's honestly kind of dark with the current state of affairs..... hmmm.

Also, do you, like the story so far?