text: [Themes: mystery / thriller]
  
  The morning of the fourth day was like any of the other days. Ellan started walking in the streets and found an arrow sign when he reached the corner. The arrow pointed to the left and so he turned to the direction.
  
  He continued walking. It was in the afternoon when he found another sign. In fact, he almost missed it because it was so small.
  
  He found a note stuck by a knife to the wheel of a van. The note had two words written on it. One on the front.
  
  Dog
  
  And another on the back.
  
  Mouth
  
  Ellan was smart and so he realized what he had to do instantly.
  
  He had to find that dog and get the next clue, which was in it's mouth.
  
  He thought about how he would do it and decided that there were two ways he could do it. He could leave a trap for the dog or he could hunt the dog down and kill the animal with his knife.
  
  > Trap
  Ellan was confident that he could create a trap. He went to a nearby grocery and picked up several things. A shopping cart, a piece of red meat, a long piece of rope and a bone.
  
  He created his trap and placed it on the middle of the road.When it was ready, Ellan stepped away and watched from a distance for the rest of the day but nothing came to his trap.
  
  Soon the skies darkened and Ellan decided to find shelter for the night.He went to sleep hoping that the dog would find the trap.
  
  > The Fifth Day
  Ellan woke up the next morning feeling quite hopeful and he left his shelter hoping that the trap had worked.
  
  True enough, he found the stray black dog inside the shopping cart trap and it was dead. Ellan guessed that maybe the dog had found the trap yesterday just before the fog arrived. The animal must have entered the trap to eat the food when the fog wrapped itself around him and caused his death.
  
  Pleased with his success, Ellan opened the dog's mouth and found a piece of cloth lodged between the animal's teeth.
  
  The red piece of cloth had several words sewn on it.
  
  Ellan this is Allaine. Fountain or Arch?
  
  > Fountain
  Ellan thought that he was supposed to look for a fountain and meet this girl there. But it was better said than done.
  
  That whole fifth day, Ellan walked around the streets searching everywhere for a fountain. He was feeling completely hopeless when he found it. The fountain was located in the middle of an intersection.
  
  Ellan decided to wait at the location for the girl whoever she was. Hours passed but no one came. No one arrived to meet him and a thought came to him.
  
  Maybe i should have went to the arch wherever that was?
  
  > Arch
  Ellan realized that the Arch was the best option. This was mainly because he had seen this arch before when he was walking through the streets.
  
  Trying to remember the location of the Arch, Ellan turned this way and that passing through street after street after street. After three hours of walking, Ellan found the Arch.
  
  He stayed there for the rest of the day but unfortunately no one came. He waited and waited for this Allaine but she never arrived.
  
  > The Sixth Day
  Ellan found shelter for the night.
  
  He found sleep after an hour and a last dream found it's way to him.
  
  He saw himself walking through empty streets with a woman. They were hand in hand. Walking alongside each other, they talked on endlessly passing all the time in the world that they had.
  
  But their time was not meant to last forever. The images shifted showing Ellan who was now all alone. Hope and desperation showed in his eyes.
  
  Passing through the streets, he used a spray paint to make arrow signs here and there. Then he took pieces of paper and wrote on them using a pen. Then he left this objects in several strategic locations.
  
  Then he suddenly stopped; he used the pen to write some words on his arm and entered a nearby alley. Lastly, he took a syringe from his backpack and injected the fluid on his arm. Then Ellan lay on the ground and waited for sleep to come.
  
  When morning finally arrived, Elan woke up from his dream.
  
  > More Waiting
  On that sixth day, Ellan waited and waited angry and impatient. But no one came. As he sat near the Arch, he thought about one thing. His dream.
  
  What if it was true?
  
  What if he himself was the one who did all this?
  
  And what was the syringe for?
  
  And if his dream indeed was true, then why did he have to do all this?
  
  Why did he have to leave those signs?
  
  When the day ended and still no one came, Ellan found another shelter to spend the night in. He slept hoping to find another dream but like that day, nothing came.
  
  > The Seventh Day (3)
  Ellan woke up on the seventh day. He was all alone as always. For the last seven days, ever since he'd woken up without any memory of the past, he'd been searching for a living soul.
  
  Clues had been laid out around him as if someone was asking to be found. Someone out there. Someone who still existed in this god-forsaken empty world.
  
  Now he sat up from the soft mattress he was sleeping on. He sat there for a minute enjoying a quick moment of peace. The last several days were a total nightmare for him, he had went everywhere following a set of clues that someone had left behind for him. He had traveled to all sorts of places but to no avail. He found no one.
  
  He stood up and carried his backpack filled with all his belongings. He started for the door deciding to leave to the room for another day of hopeless searching.
  
  But suddenly there was a knock.
  
  > The Knock (3)
  Ellan ran to open the door.
  
  A pretty young woman with green eyes and a confident smile stood outside.
  
  Ellan quickly spoke, "Are you Allaine?"
  
  The woman nodded and answered, "Yes, i am. . . Ellan, they sent me to come and get you. . . and to see if the experiment worked."
  
  She continued, "Did you do everything? Did the cure work?"
  
  Confused but beginning to understand, Ellan asked, "What? What do you mean?"
  
  The woman answered, "Don't you remember? You see we were traveling to the deep underground safe haven before. When we arrived, you volunteered for an experiment. The scientists gave you a supposed cure and they sent you here back to the city to test it.If it had worked and you used it. You will become impervious to the dangerous fog which when inhaled will make a man insane. If it had worked, you will no longer be poisoned and you will stay sane when you breathe it in."
  
  "The fact that you are still here means that the experiment had worked and that we now have the cure." The woman said, lastly.
  
  Ellan asked again,"But why can't i remember anything?"
  
  Allaine explained, "It's the side effects of their cure. They haven't been able to fix that problem yet."
  
  A moment of silence passed as Ellan processed it all. Then he spoke slowly, "Allaine who are you? Why were together in my memories?"
  
  With a low and soft voice, Allaine answered, "Ellan, only you can answer that. The truth lies deep in your heart for even though your memories have faded, i believe your heart still remembers."
  
  Then she turned and began to walk away. Ellan then searched his heart and found the answer right there.
  
  He ran up to Allaine, caught her hand in his and leaned in to whisper in her ears, "My heart remembers you and nothing else. Now i'll tell you what my heart told me, it told me that you were my one and only."
  
  Allaine smiled and they began their travel back to the safe haven.