It has been almost an year since Aria was hired for drug testing at Azra and so far she managed to keep the job without much stress. It wasn’t hard, she just had to go there four hours a day no matter the time and take some pills, then write down what happens in the next 24 hours. The first few weeks were really bad, she had experienced almost every known side effect starting from nausea, massive headaches, hives and ending with itches all over, but after a month or so she was even healthier than before she came to work for them. Unknowingly, her immune system had been rendered to its maximum potential in resistence to disease and every known virus on the planet. After a couple of months, she had been asked to do some basic training, starting with muscle workout and ending with hand to hand combat – for a better response to the tests they said – until one day she had to learn how to use various weapons.<br/><br/><br/>Aria was always joking with them on how they trained her to be a spy, but none of her collegues – most of them good friends with her by now – didn’t bother to respond to her jokes, seriously or not. Until one day, less than six months after her first day at work, the one who gave her the offer came by and told her everything:  how AZRA was meant for a higher purpose in helping humanity achieve a long forgotten dream – time travelling and how they’ve been searching for a suitable candidate to test-pilot the first time machine known in history.  Aria didn’t bother to listen at first, she was all too caught up in learning whatever they put her to in the first place. It’s not that she didn’t believe them, everything was too strange anyway not to place some doubts in her mind about the true purpose of those tests and their results, but just like everyone else she doubted that the experiment would truly come to a success.<br/><br/><br/>She started doing basic astronaut tests – some involving gravity and the lack of it, others with sleep deprivation (the horror!) and even more general health tests from time to time. So far, the team managed to send one of their collegues into five minutes from now in the future and this was recorded as a major success. It was more than enough to give them high hopes and the team started to work eagerly for the next achievement.  Soon enough, Aria herself moved within the company’s building, sharing the dorm with most of the team’s members who had no family to return to at night.<br/><br/>One faithful morning, after just having to kick the hell out of Dean – the team’s main sofware expert - for snatching her panties (again), Aria came to the conclusion that it was time for a well deserved walk outside the company’s main area. She had always been a shut in and if there was a “best hikikomori” award, she’ll probably get it too, but at the time Aria was really eager for some fresh air (if 39 degrees in the shade counts). Wearing her favourite blue tank top and short jeans,  she was just about to leave the room when the ground beneath her feet started to shake. It was a low level intensity at first, but in the next two minutes it sounded like the earth will crumble.<br/><br/>“EARTHQUAKE ALERT!!!!” her ditzy collegue shouted and both of them stumbled against eachother trying to reach the staircase. The next thing she remembered was placing her right foot on top of the first stair, then a whirlpool of darkness opened right beneath her feet, dragging her inside of it. Endless, pitchblack darkness…only void.<br/>