Please catch up - Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, and Chapter 7.

Recap: W wakes up in a hotel room to find a pistol in her hand, aiming at a man. She is in a state of total retrograde amnesia - she can't remember anything that happened before that point. She tries to find out who she is, but her comprehensive efforts are met with failure. W is a good investigator - but before her amnesia, she was a masterly stealth artist. It's almost as if she did not exist. A ghost, a shadow, a master assassin. With no choice left, she sets out to sequence her DNA. She stealthily infiltrates a research lab with a prototype Rapid DNA Sequencer, and sequences her DNA. Embedded within her DNA is binary code - a sound clip. A rasping voice of an elderly man tells here that she's a synthetic being from a different time and space, sent back to undertake a series of missions. 

Silence in Time - Chapter 8

It has been three weeks since W first listened to the Bong's revelation. Finally, it all makes some sense. W is an engineered human being, from a different space-time continuum. She was sent to our world and our time to be a saboteur, an assassin, and a spy. Alas, she "malfunctioned", though in reality, the retrograde amnesia process is identical to that in natural humans. The voice within her DNA was indeed a failsafe, a message in case of such a malfunction. W's origins were no longer a mystery, but all this did was raise even more questions. 

The first of which, of course, is - who is Bong? Does he have any connection to our here and now? It took three weeks, but W has finally found Bong. 

Bong is a young college drop-out from Buncheon, South Korea. W has infiltrated his residence - a tiny, messy apartment - and draws a gun while Bong sits down to play on his game console. Instinctively, Bong raises his hands. 

"Raising your hands won't help", says W, in a calm voice. Bong, baffled, "Uhh... I have never had a gun pointed at me before. I'm just a broke ass student, what do you want from me?"

"Relax. I just want you to listen to something", W replies, still pointing the gun at Bong. W plays back the sound clip on her phone. 

Hey there. I am Bong. But err... this ain’t about me. You, you are a human being, but one not birthed of a mother; instead created by... whatcha may call, artificial super-intelligence or uhh, super smart machines. But enough about us... though I will say, we are from a different space and time, and you’re the only one of your kind. Yeah, you are pretty much alone.

So, where was I? Ah yeah, you. You are by all means human. Physiologically indistinguishable from any modern human, yet psychologically evolutionarily advanced. Gosh, those are some big words. Anyway, you were...in quotes - sent... with an imprinted memory, to undertake a set of... missions. But I guess since you are listening to this, you’ve probably f*cked up. So, ah, mission's aborted. Yeah, I know you wanna know more, but I think that’s all I gotta say.

Do watchha wanna, but maybe try to make your world a cooler place. Over and out.

Bong is bemused at listening to this, while W's gun continues to be aimed at him. W doesn't say a word. Bong is silent too. He gestures at W, but there's complete quiet. 

Breaking the silence, Bong starts laughing hysterically. "Nice prank! I don't know who you are or what you want Miss, but...."

W interrupts, "You know what this is about. I don't need to tell you."

Bong's mood changes rapidly. Thoughtfully, he contemplates, "Maybe you are stark raving mad, Miss. But let me guess what you're thinking. That I'm the same Bong. I made you in the future and sent you back in time. You're pissed off. You want to kill me so you were never put through this misery."

(to be continued)