Even P.O.V.
"Even? Even?"
"Huh? What?"
The scientist was awakened from his daydream to see one of the lab-hands standing next to him.
"Even, if you any more of that substance in the experiment, it will implode," the dark-haired lab-hand said as he leaned over Even's shoulder.
"Thanks, Ienzo," Even said as he tried to put more focus into his experiment. But for some reason, he just couldn't. Even was always focused on nothing but his work, but now something else seemed to occupy space in his brain. Marly. Even couldn't stop thinking about what Marly had said and then how he just left.
"Even, I really think you should take a break," Ienzo said as he watched Even walk over to the counter on the side of the lab.
"Why?" Even asked as he poured a cup of coffee.
"Well, for one thing, you just poured pure indium into your coffee, instead of sugar," Ienzo said as he pointed to the fizzing paper coffee cup.
"Ack!" Even groaned as he tried to pour the reaction into the sink.
Marly P.O.V.
Lea's words still rang in Marly's head.
"Figure it out, ok?"
"Figure what out?" Marly thought. He just sat there, on the same park bench, thinking.
As hours droned on, Marly got deeper and deeper into his thoughts, to the point where he no longer heard anything around him. So, he was surprised when a large hand touched his right shoulder.
"Hey there, are you lost?" said a deep voice.
Marly slowly looked up to see two big, tall men standing before him, one with jet-black hair and side burns, and a spear strapped to his back and another with orange curly hair and an ax in his hand.
"Don't touch me," Marly murmured as he stared at the dark-haired one holding his shoulder.
"What?"
"Don't touch me!" Marly yelled as he tried to throw the man's hand off.
"Oho! Now this one's going to fight?" the dark-haired man said as he backed away and pulled a spear off of his back. "Come at me, I haven't had a good fight in a while."
Just as Marly assumed his defensive position (it kind of becomes a necessity when stuff like this happens a lot), the other man put his hand on his left shoulder and slowly shook his head.
"Fine, Aeleus, I won't kill him. But we were ordered to get samples," the dark-haired man said as he lowered his spear.
Aeleus then raised his ax and pointed towards Marly.
"I'm not sure he's what they were looking for," the dark-haired man said.
"They didn't specify that, Dilan," Aeleus said as he lowered his ax.
"Alright, but if they get angry, I'm going to blame it on you," Dilan sighed.
Then they both came at Marly. All he could do was run.
Even P.O.V.
Yesterday was a total bust, Even didn't get a single thing done that was supposed to be done and not too far in any of his experiments (if anything they seemed to go backwards). Today, however, Even was determined to get all of his work done.
As lunch time came around, Even's attempts at completion of his experiments had failed miserably. He just let out a small sigh and went to the small area designated for eating and bought a small sandwich from the only shop in the entire building. As he sat done and un-wrapped his ham sandwich, his heard his co-workers converse.
"Hey, do you know when they will bring in new any new experimental subjects?"
"I heard that they got some rare rats species to test."
"Boring."
"I did discover, though, that the higher-ups are going to let us use humans soon."
"Where did you hear something like that?"
"I didn't hear it, I saw it. I saw two of the guards bring in a little kid yesterday."
"How little?"
"If I had to guess, I'd say around 13."
Even stopped eating. "It's not. It couldn't be," Even thought as he listened in a bit more carefully.
"Yea, strange fellow too."
"How so?"
"He had bright pink hair."
Even stood up from his chair, thus throwing his seatback a few feet. He stomped over to the scientist that had just spoken, grabbed his shirt collar, and held him close to his face.
"Where did you see this?" he demanded.
"Uh…. Uh…." the man stammered.
"Where?"
"T-the black abandoned building, just outside of town. I-I was having dinner around that area last night, and I happened to see them" the man managed to say.
Even then threw the man to the side and stormed out of the research building.
"You idiot!" Even thought as he ran away from the white building.