Chapter 8

I fell with no grace, and screamed. Even behind glass Lewis covered his ears. I brace my self for the impact but find no hard steel, no rotten flesh, but darkness. Soft darkness. The ground was padded and I saw Lewis sighing and crossing his clipboard.

There are no monsters. Just blackness."Hologram."Lewis said simply and smiled at my anger.

"What am I doing here?! I need to be outside, with Duncan!"

"I told him you would be going on a little vacation, Test subject no. 2579."

"Test subject."I spat the words like poison.

"Right, duel Bort here and I'll survey."

'Bort? Who's Bort?' My thoughts were interrupted by a giant zombie making his way towards me. I quickly started running away, I couldn't stand a chance against a Zombie that big! I quickly formulated a plan, to get out of here in the process! Much like a bull, I'll let it charge towards me and it'll knock itself out, or even better, break throughly the wall. I steady and let Bort charge. My heart was racing and my palms were getting sweaty. And at just the right moment, I leapt out of the way, leading to a tremor that rumble the room. Bort lay, knocked out outside Yoglabs, and It was my chance. I ran. As far away as I could. But it wasn't long before I got caught. Soon after, one of Lewis' henchmen got me as I tried to go into the forest.

Tests continued to be rigorous and my food was distasteful, stale bread with cold soup everyday makes you want to vomit. The tests are vile, when I'm not swigging never tested potions I'm fighting fully armed creatures or staring into the blank eyes of Lewis Xeohos. And to tell the truth, I was okay with all that. The one thing I wished for was Duncan. If he were here, I wouldn't be lonely. If he were here, he'd listen to my complaints. If he were here, I would laugh. Because I love Duncan, and Duncan loves me. After a few days of tests, I couldn't go on. Fatigue and sleep needed to be caught up with. But Lewis disagrees. So his eyes turned red.

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Lewis hasn't really been here recently, he usually disappears and comes back with a few things, claiming he went to a dungeon. We accepted but now Sjin and I were getting suspicious. He brings back impossible things, like blood samples and eggs. Lewis is also much more stressed. So Sjin and I interrogated him on a particularly busy day.

"Lewis. We need to talk."I looked right into his eyes and he looked back.

"Okay. What do you want?"I knew he didn't mean it in a bad way but he sounded agitated.

"Where's Kim?"I get straight to the point.

"Doing great, she sends her best regards."

"What?"I hesitate."But Lewis, how does she communicate with you?"

"Letters."

"But why would she not send me a letter?"

"I..."

"Lied."I finished.

"I need to go-..."Lewis looked at his watch."-Collecting stuff."

"But Lewis-"I started but didn't finish my sentence as he sped off onto the rock.

***

I wonder what death feels like. Nice? If it comes, I will embrace it. I've already. Given up all hope in the fact of getting out. You know, death is really cool. And when you spend 24 hours a day either in rigorous tests or in your simple room, you have time to talk to yourself a lot. Lewis came to the door of my cell, panting and with a red face.

"Test subject no.2579, Kim."

"What?"I moaned.

"This test will be your final or first test."

"What?"

"Just come with me."

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"I'm sorry to say..."Lewis looked at his feet."But Duncan..."

"Spit it out!"I shout and he winces.

"Kim Nanosounds has died due to and unexpected hitch in our system." Lewis breathed."We destroyed her one, master clone."

It took a few seconds to sink in before I punched Lewis in the gut.

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