Chapter 3
Now they could see how truly horrid this place was, and how many children had been snatched from their homes. His heart cried for them, but no such tears reached his face. Sasami awoke minutes after, immediately following the growl of Nic's stomach. He felt guilty that he had, in a way, woke her up from her peaceful looking dream. They noticed some of the kids moving in a line like fashion toward another room, waking kids as the passed them telling them to follow. The fell into line and were led to a deplorable dining area where at each seat was a trey of…something that looked like a cross between hot cereal and cold cereal. They bore through it for survival but Nic, being a small child, was content with less than all of it and left some behind. Sasami was not willing to eat more then she had to but still consumed the bowl in time.
They chose to explore their forced surroundings but before they got a chance a man walked into the room from a separate door with three guards beside him. Each had an automatic weapon. Some children froze at their entrance some cursed, most demanded answers. But silence fell one the weapons were raised to firing position.
"This is the most pathetic bunch of prodigies, none of you look to last half as long as the last batch. "The man spat out. Nic noticed the movement of some children behind the men but drew no attention to it, a small girl with silver white hair and a boy with golden brown hair. The moved close to the guards behind their blind spot. Nobody said a word but when one of the guard head began to turn towards them Nic tipped his tray off the table and the crash drew attention to where he was. He quickly picked the tray up and when he put it back on the table the two kids were gone.
"Case and point," the man explained to himself and turned to leave, "they'll be dead by the end of the month." All the children had been silent before then in fear of the guns but now the silence was thicker, as if even their hearts had been placed on mute, they now feared for their lives. Panic and chaos loomed right behind the sound of the locks on the other side of the door. This lasted for hours but Nicias and Sasami remained together and out of the commotion.
They had been relatively silent, until a voice came from behind them.
"thanks" said the voice. They turned in panic toward it to find the two children sitting against the wall.
"I hope it was worth it" Sasami addressed them, as if she had known what was going on.
Nic voiced his confusion, clearly at a loss. And she explained.
"Not everyone came in last night Nic, I've been here a week"
"We a week before her" the silver haired girl explained.
"And we aren't staying" the boy chimed in venomously.
Nic, who eyes no longer hid behind his hair, questioned the statement silently
"We aren't staying; we are getting out of here before we wind up dead. All of us, words being spread, this chaos is a joke, he didn't lie we are all prodigies so it's time we used our heads"
"Or hands" the silver haired girl chimed in. "I'm Kirian" she introduced herself.
"Nicias" he introduced himself
"Zero" the golden haired boys joined the introductions "we need a few more keys and we out, try not to lose your head and I'll see you on the outside" he smiles and the two walk away.
