Inspirational quote: You're gold baby. Solid gold.

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"Get on my back then, Lauriel," Dr Kozak insisted, seriously looking at her.

Then, bringing back to memory that Lauriel couldn't stand up as agent Valentina had threw her so hard, he went down on one knee, where he could feel Lauriel going on his back.

"Ow..." Lauriel cried, on Dr Kozak's back fully now.

"You okay?"

Lauriel didn't reply.

"You're really heavy, by the way," Dr Kozak told her, and as soon as he had walked out of room seventeen, many many people were giving him strange looks as to ask him 'why on earth are you giving a piggy back to a 14 year old kid?'

"Long story," Dr Kozak lied, grinning at everyone, then he walked super quickly, not noticing that Lauriel was sleeping on his back.

Dr Kozak couldn't really think stuff much because as he was a mind reader, if he thought stuff, he got the paranoid feeling that people would be able to read his mind as well, and he didn't really want that.

Although they couldn't actually do that because no one in KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS was a mind reader expect Dr Kozak.

And a few others...

"Jesus I can't move. Why are you so heavy, Lauriel?"

Lauriel didn't say anything, until Dr Kozak had to tap her. She didn't say anything for about ten seconds.

"Nearly there, don't worry," he whispered to her. "Oh my god...."

Nothing else was said after that until Dr Kozak brought Lauriel to the room that she was actually supposed to be in.

He then smacked himself for not being wise and using his teleporter to help him get there instead of just having to walk over 7,000 steps with Lauriel on his back!

He dropped her, where Lauriel woke up. He looked longingly at her as Lauriel rubbed her eyes, becoming more angry every second.

"Room thirty thousand, seven hundred and fifteen?" She shouted. "How many rooms are there?"

"Yep," Dr Kozak nodded. "That's why I didn't want to tell you before when you asked me. And there are approx 50,000 rooms. That's why I invented the teleporters."

"I swear we were on room seventeen?" Lauriel reminded him, where he nodded but fell quiet straight afterwards.

"Yeah. Not anymore. Come on, go inside."

He escorted her inside but Lauriel was too afraid to go.

Then unexpectedly, Lauriel fainted.

"Oh my gosh, Lauriel!" Dr Kozak had managed to catch her just in time. She was still living, fortunately, although she looked more deceased.

"You alright? I am low key worried about you. Agent Valentina shouldn't have done that. You can't take this test, Lauriel."

But Lauriel wasn't taking no for an answer.

"No, Dr Kozak! I have to. If I don't, your sister said that I'd die. And I don't really want that!"

Dr Kozak was fuming right now, mainly because Agent Valentina was making up lies that were against the test rules.

How dare she?

"That's not true. And medical wise, still not true. Seriously. You just fainted. You can't take this test, Lauriel. End of story."

"I'm taking this test, Demetrius." Lauriel hollered at him, leaving Dr Kozak a bit surprised because Lauriel had never ever referred to him by his first name before, let alone anyone else that was her age.

She got up and walked inside room 30,715, then came back outside again.

"I'm scared Dr Kozak."

"Then don't take the test then, Lauriel. Look at you, you look like you've just died and resurrected again."

Lauriel rolled her eyes in disbelief before staring at him spitefully again.

"And don't give me that dirty look. This is for your own good. Don't take the test."

Lauriel didn't listen.
She was about to go in, so she did, until Dr Kozak said something else.

"Kid. Are you crazy? You can't take this test. But okay, if you really want to, I guess that there's nothing stoping you. Although don't think that I'll support you, because I won't. Just don't say to me that I didn't warn you..."

Lauriel didn't listen again. She asked him a few questions at first, such as 'because the room was wrong was the test wrong as well?' but it wasn't, just the group was.

"And are you sure that this is the right room?" She questioned him, looking back at him before she went off.

"Yes. Yes it is, trust me on this one." Was all Dr Kozak told her, removing his sunglasses and rubbing them with his tuxedo shirt. "And I'm sorry I messed up earlier."

"I don't believe you when you say that this is the right room and test," Lauriel replied.

Dr Kozak shot Lauriel a really maleficent look of death.

"Right room and test then..." Lauriel interpreted, about to go in.

Truth be told, Dr Kozak tried to warn her a lot about the risks of taking a test when one was sick but Lauriel wasn't buying it.

She headed inside, leaving an annoyed Dr Kozak to walk away back to his room 7,365 steps down where she saw agent Astera.

"You're late, Lauriel." She reminded her, checking her watch. "Forty seven minutes late, actually."

There was a vexed response to that.

"Dr Kozak took me to the wrong room!" She protested. "And I bet you had something to do with it."

Agent Astera's response was livid as well. Sort of.

"I have no idea what you're ranting about, and I don't have anything to do with this. Stop jumping to conclusions, Lauriel."

Coincidence much? That was exactly the same thing that Dr Kozak had said to her. Lauriel was a hundred percent sure that Agent Astera was lying.

"I don't believe you."

"Well you might as well!" Astera snapped, seriously glaring at Lauriel now. "Because it's true. I had nothing to do with it. Anyway before you make me even more annoyed, Lauriel, you need to start the blooming test."

Lauriel didn't respond, because she was deeply focused on the timer that the fifty girls had left for taking the test.

Four minutes, fourteen seconds.

She was also looking intently at the statistics as well.

Three girls had given up, and gotten beheaded.

Eleven got disqualified.
Nineteen died, and seventeen were still miraculously alive and going.

Lauriel waited until the timer was bang on four minutes until she eventually said something.

"What? Complete eight sections in four minutes? You've got to be kidding me."

"Well, it's your fault for being late," Astera hissed back, pushing her into the first section. "Just stick to the time limit. Off you go."

That would have been strange, the girls taking the test (12 now, 5 died) were all in section seven whilst Lauriel had barely even started section one.

Although as soon as Lauriel was about to go in, Astera tremendously shouted her name for every girl in the room to hear.

"Wait, Lauriel!" Astera shouted, still intently texting someone on her rose gold iPhone 6s Plus.

Lauriel had heard her before she was about to go in, so what she did was to go back to Astera, glaring at her.

"What?" Lauriel wanted to know.

"Dr Kozak just texted me. Read it. I think it's really important."

And so Lauriel did. Agent Astera gave Lauriel her phone so that she could read what Dr Kozak had just texted her, giving her a time limit of just one minute to do so.

Hey loves xx. I need to tell you something. I accidentally took Lauriel to the wrong room (and Anastasia- no one else don't worry haha) so because of that could you please restart the time limit for them? ie if the girls taking the test have let's say, 3 minutes left to complete it, which they do, let Anastasia and Lauriel start from ten minutes again, not three.

Lauriel smiled and was about to return her phone again until Dr Kozak sent Agent Astera another message again which made her smile become a frown instantaneously.

I really wish Anastasia the best of luck in this test. Lauriel? Not so much because she doesn't realise the consequences of taking a test when you're sick!

Rude much, Lauriel muttered to herself. And then, when agent Astera wasn't looking, she brought out her phone, secretly adding Dr Kozak's number to her contacts.

She was only about three numbers in before Agent Astera caught her doing something that was not what she was supposed to be doing.

"And what do you think you're doing?" Astera protested at her, coming close to her and snatching her phone away.

"Halfway through adding Dr Kozak's number on my phone," Lauriel answered, making Astera go mentally ballistic.

"...Did I give you permission to? And did he? You need to ask him first don't you?"

Lauriel just looked at her in return, sulking.

"Please? I'm his long lost daughter."

Astera didn't reply for a while. She just shot a hostile glance at her, Lauriel still sulking, before she finally said yes. Another reason on why Lauriel wanted Dr Kozak's contact so bad was because hello? He was family. They were related.

Lauriel had all of her family member's phone numbers, alive and dead, though there was no point of the dead ones.

Lauriel saved his contact before texting him, and hopefully he would have replied back as soon as possible as well.

-Hello.

Dr Kozak didn't reply for a while, before texting something back.

Dr Kozak:
-WHO IS THIS?
-Sorry. I accidentally left caps lock on by mistake.
-But seriously. Who is this?

Then the rest of the text conversation pretty much went like this:

Lauriel:
Lauriel.

Dr Kozak groaned to himself at the other side of KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS when he read her message, before typing anything else.

Dr Kozak:
Oh hello... How did you get my number?

Lauriel:
Agent Astera.

Dr Kozak:
Right. I should have known. Although why are you texting me? Shouldn't you be "taking the test"?

Lauriel:
You could say that. Although I'm just curious. What happens if you take the test when you're sick?

Dr Kozak didn't reply for a while, leaving Lauriel hanging and annoyed, despite the fact that it said that he had read her message.

Lauriel:
For the last time. Don't leave me hanging. What happens if you take the test and you're sick?

Dr Kozak:
What happens if you take the test when sick? Trust me kid.

Pause.

-You die.

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Moral of chapter: Just because someone says that you can't do something doesn't mean that you have to believe them.