This world isn't exactly what you'd call a home, but for some of us it's nothing more than a cage, keeping us bound to our set path and guiding us from our beginning to our end. However, there is always that one stray, that one life that pulls away from their path and follows another. That stray always breaks from his cage, but he never gets to see the light. He never gets to see anything except for his own blood and pain.
"I guess it's true those who are alone are lost." I whispered tears forming in my eyes as I frowned staring into the cage next to mine, my wings hung out as I tried to see the same reassuring boy I knew, but I knew he wasn't there. They'd came in and taken him out earlier. I didn't understand it honestly, I didn't get why we were here and honestly I wasn't even sure how I knew for a dead center fact that he was my brother. I closed my eyes listening to the others in their cages, it hurt honestly to hear them and to realize that I was going to be them one day. I was going to be moving about in this small cage creating a racket for some other poor kid and then, I'd just die. I chocked back on a sob as I heard the uncomforting echo of footsteps a small light shone into the room, but I didn't look at it, I couldn't. I forced my eyes shut tight hoping they'd walk on hoping that if I slowed my breathing they'd really think I was dead and they'd stupidly open this cell, but they didn't. Instead the footsteps came and went as usual, I didn't want to open my eyes not to the same emptiness that surrounded me and that I felt. "Vesper!" I knew his voice almost as well as I knew myself, but I didn't want to open my eyes and see this place. In all truth I wanted to die, because this world. It's painful.
It was three years, three long years of a nightmare that would never end, when I finally realized this was the path we were meant to follow. I stared at the outside of my cage I was ten now and I still had no clue why I didn't try to leave. I focused on what I saw every day, a strange girl visited, sometimes giving the other experiments some piece of food. I was always glad when she left because after the third time I figured out that she was killing several of them. I had heard talk from the wretched people that work here and as far as I knew we were nothing but disposable, non-functioning tests. At least most of us were, I found more and more they would pull certain ones out of here, my brother and I were two of them. They seemed to be focused on why we never died unlike the others. I didn't really care because I wasn't going to be here much longer. I swore I'd either die or get out and we all knew that my chances of getting out here slim to none. I leaned back in my cage letting my wings fall out, I'd memorized eachc type of person who entered. Whitecoats, erasers, and the occasional two kids who didn't fit with either of those categories. I glanced at my brother who was silently focused on the experiment beside him. I didn't see why he just didn't accept anything I had planned. "Vesper please." Umbra whispered startling me from my thoughts. I glanced at him sighting, "Yeah?" "You should get some sleep. I'll keep watch." "Sleep if for the weak and the dead." "Yeah and living is for the dramatically insane." He mumbled and I rolled my eyes focusing on the cage's bars. "Umbra…..do you think maybe they lied. That we aren't related?" "I honestly hope not." He responded and I glanced at him and shrugged as my gaze fell on a small kid huddled in the cage completely across from mine. His eyes weren't exactly normal if you asked me, they were strange blue with white rims and glows to them. I looked away after a while staring at the ground as a white coat walked in , just like all the others the kid was removed from the room and taken someplace I wasn't willing to think about. That same night they returned with the same kid his eyes looked somewhat duller and he seemed to just focus on nothing imparticular. I listened as the whitecoats left talking about how the kid had something important and how it was something that was in all of the others. Saying they were important, that we weren't anything. We were their tools. I frowned staring at the cages before smiling, "You know Umbra." I whispered laughing slightly as my brother looked at me, "I love humans, so misguided and always seeing patterns in things that aren't there." I said laughing. "Vesper…you're worrying me." Umbra said softly and I shook my head, "One day they'll lose all their precious work and I'll die laughing because they deserved it."