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Echo of the Forgotten
Prologue
It was cold and dark in the cell. The experiment next to her had died two hours ago. The experiment on the other side of her had died three days ago. No one moved. Fear and anguish penetrated the bars of the cell. Darkness surrounded her, threatening to destroy her. The one they called Evelyn. Evelyn meant little bird. Their creator wasn't very creative. She wouldn't respond to Evelyn. Most experiments here wouldn't respond at all.
Light suddenly penetrated the darkness as the door opened. The girl cowered away from the door and the bars of her cell. The white coats carried in a failing experiment. The girl almost cried at the sight of the bloodied mutant. It looked like a mix of a dog and a human. The girl was the only one that was almost human. She was completely human except for her wings and her uncanny ability to heal herself from anything. Well, almost everything. The girl touched the spot where her wings should be. The white coats tore them off almost every week. A tear slipped down the girl's face. An echo of the failing experiment's cries reached her super-sensitive ears. Echo. The name which she had given herself. She remembered the echoes of Dylan's cries as he'd been dragged away. Ever since then she had become a hardened shell.
The white coats ripped open her cell door. Echo allowed herself to be dragged away. She'd do anything to get her wings back. She had to find Dylan, her brother. Echo had sworn to protect him and she would keep that promise. The white coats pushed her through the door and into the light. Her eyes adjusted instantly. They led Echo into a room so white that it could blind a normal person. She saw her wings on an table across the room. The thought of the wings not being attached to her back disgusted her almost as much as the studded collar on her neck. The white coats closed the door and cut open the scars on her back. Echo tried her hardest not to scream. They laid her on her stomach on an operating table. They laid her wings on her back and held them so they would reattach to her back. Echo gasped as tendons grew from her back to the wings. After tedious minutes the wings were back and she could move them herself. Another white coat opened the door.
"Dr. Hans would like to see Evelyn" The white coat said in a monotone. Echo growled at the use of her given name. One of the white coats slapped her.
"Of course, sir." Echo replied and walked out the door with the monotonous white coat. He led her down many hallways and towards a door that led outside. He opened the door and natural air and light hit Echo.
"It's the door just across the courtyard. Two guards will escort you there" The white coat said, ushering Echo outside. Two guards met her outside the door and the white coat walked away. Echo laughed to herself. They seriously thought that two guards would keep her restrained. The courtyard had no other guards or a roof. Echo walked respectfully for almost half the courtyard.
Suddenly, she turned and roundhoused one of the guards. He fell with a grunt and was still. Echo turned to the other guard and punched him the windpipe. The guard gasped for air as Echo kneed him in groin. She turned and pushed off. After a few good flaps of her wings, she went into overdrive. She didn't even flap her wings as she sped over a hundred miles per hour. She heard the echoes of Dr. Han's angry screams. She hoped those would be the last painful echoes she ever heard.