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Rythian blinked a couple of times before the room lit up with an eerie purple light.
“You’re lucky no one is here. Most of them stopped checking on you about a week ago.”

“How long was I asleep?”

”You were regenerating for about three weeks.”

“Rythian felt around for a light switch but only found the cold metal door. He found a small red button next to the door. A low humming static emanated from the small box next to it.

“It’s a speaker. They've been trying in to talk to you for a while.” Rythian rubbed his head, as he walked back over to his bed to think. There was that window that Xephos had opened up above, he could wait for someone to come in and check on him and attempt an escape like that, or- his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a generator starting up near him. The lights all came on at once, blinding him for a minute.

“Gahhh…” He hissed as he covered his eyes with his hands, and that’s when he realized his mask was missing. His heart stopped and he searched around the room for it. Nothing was around, the floor was clean, and everything was dusted. He then realized that he was in different cloths and he had an ankle bracelet on his ankle.

“We cleaned up everyone’s’ rooms once a week. And since you’re new here you needed some... proper attire.” Rythian stepped in front of the mirror. He was in a black shirt and khaki pants, with a pair of black shoes. He turned around and on the back in white letters read:

“Experiment #83925 – Enderborn – Rare Specimen”

“Really? I’m in a prison now?”

“How else do you expect us to keep track of our experiments? They don’t have names, except Bort. Bort is special.” Xephos replied as he typed on a keyboard furiously.

“By the way Rythian, your blood samples came back. 45% human plasma and 50% endermen plasma 5% of unknown plasma. This puts you in the non-human category in our records, and we might have to transfer you to a new ward. But I think we should keep you in this room in my opinion, it’s the perfect size for all of the equipment.” Xephos chuckled lightly away from the microphone. Rythian growled. The metal door creaked open, and a thin pale body limped through. Victoria had a huge smile on her face, along with many deep cuts and some scabs. Her knees buckled and she sat on the floor with tears streaming down her face. Rythian rushed over to her but she pushed her away, instead she held out a bag to him

“Drink!”

“What’s wrong are you ok?” She went to speak but stopped when she saw Xephos glaring at her. She whimpered, shook her head and instead put on a big smile.

“Drink!” She repeated. Rythian looked back up at Xephos before grabbing the bag from her hands. Inside was bottle with a blue liquid that glowed. He pulled it out and examined it. Victoria whimpered and then slinked out the door, locking it behind her. His extended hearing allowed him to hear her scream from outside the door faintly, before it suddenly cut off, leaving Rythian worried and anxious.

“What the hell is this?” Rythian said swishing the liquid around.

“It’s your first test. Drink it please, so my scientists can record the results they will be here any minute.”

“What happens if I don’t?” Rythian said eyeing the liquid. He fell to the floor as a strong shock traveled up his body.

“That’s what will happen.” Rythian picked himself up off the floor and pulled out the cork to the bottle with his sharpened finger nails. He looked up at Xephos before taking a small sip of the liquid.

“Gahhh!” Rythian shrieked. He suddenly threw down the bottle and dropped down onto the floor and vomited.

” I thought you could smell that that was water with a bit of luminescent dye!”

“My senses are not fully functional, I woke up like literally 20 minutes ago.” Rythian croaked as he wiped his mouth. He coughed again and sat there on the floor, trying to relieve the burning feeling in his mouth and on his lips. He took several deep breaths before grabbing one of the blocks from the floor and held it gently. It took a minute for him to realize what he was doing before he shoved the block away and calmed himself.

“You act like an enderman when you’re panicked. This is good, at least we’ll be able to handle you is you freak out.” Rythian stood up and walked to the mirror. The insides of his cheeks were burned and bleeding. He held his face as the thick purple liquid seeped from his mouth. He turned his attention to the scientists that huddled through the door.

”Go ahead; you can kill them this time."