Nate was about to try more of the body parts on the shelves, when he noticed a door next to the bed. He had not noticed it at first, since it blended almost perfectly into the wall. Curious as always, Nate moved towards the door and turned the handle. When he opened the door, he stepped into a very dark room, so dark that he could barely make out the edges and corners of the walls, floor, and ceiling. He felt around near the doorway for a light switch, and quickly managed to find one. Once he turned the light on, he was greeted by a sight just as incredible as the room he had entered from.
Unlike the white room, this one was a very long chamber, and was paneled in wood. The walls were divided into sections that alternated between glass cabinets, paneling, and mirrors set into the wood. But it was what was inside the cabinets that truly caught Nate's eye. Behind several of the glass windows was a head, each with nothing else attached to it except for a neck. Each head appeared to be male, and many of them appeared to be identical. They were all alive, and all seemed interested in Nate, as though they had never seen him nor anyone else before. But as Nate quickly noticed, the room was not filled with identical heads. There were cabinets that displayed different heads, all male but not exactly the same "person". As Nate studied the cabinets as they stretched towards the far-away end of the long room, he became more and more interested. The heads usually differed in one or more aspects: shape, size, eye color, hairstyle, hair color, hair length, nose, glasses, eyebrows, facial hair, piercings, tattoos, veins, skin color, lesions, moles, tanning, and so on. The list of variations seemed virtually endless.
It was some time before Nate what the heads' necks were sitting on. The stands looked like the kind that could be seen in a jewelry store to display a pendant or a necklace. Nate did not think much of it, until he remembered what he had seen in that white room: all of those limbs and body parts that were detachable, that felt warm and alive, that he could control when they were attached to his body, and how pictures of his dad with those other parts had showed up on the computer screen. As crazy as it was, Nate could tell that all of this was starting to make sense. But in order to prove his theory, he had to test it.
Nate took another look around the room, trying to find a head that he liked. He soon spotted it, and moved towards its cabinet. It was the head of a twelve-year-old boy, only two years older than him, with black hair. Before Nate did anything else, he looked back towards the doorway to the white room; his dad was still gone, but he wanted to be sure that he wouldn't be discovered. Nate opened the cabinet next to the head; it was empty expect for the stand, which was about to be used. Taking a deep breath, Nate placed his hands on his own neck, and pulled up. With ease, his head and neck came off easily, leaving only an empty space in their absence. Nate was surprised to find that he could see his own head in his hands, despite the fact that it was detached; he assumed it was one of the room's features--that a headless body could still function, move about, and even see as though it had, regardless of whether or not it actually did have one.
Nate then set his original head down in the cabinet, shut the door, and moved towards the black-haired head next door. At the other cabinet, Nate opened the door, reached inside, and gently laid his hands on the head's neck. As he now expected, it was warm and breathing, despite the fact that it had neither a heart nor lungs. He gently picked it up, moved to a mirror, and lifted the head up above his shoulders. He set it down where his original head was, and felt it attach instantly to his flesh. He was now able to move it freely as though it actually was his own.
Nate then spoke--and as he expected, his voice was different as well: "This is awesome!"