#7, Deserted Paths or… Inside
The walk was just as immensely boring as most of the others ones I had been on in the last 24hours and my interest wavered pretty quickly after the initial shock of what I had seen. I kept on bouncing my eyes about over the plain white buildings and wondering what on earth they contained. I was also cursing myself for not the first or last time for ever even thinking about walking through a construction site and vowing to myself that once we were safe again that I would never go through one again no matter what.
We followed along our same dirt path until we came to a smaller one then followed down that one towards one of the smaller one-storey buildings. We walked right on past that one and another three or four others of which I got to have a nice look at. They weren't really all that more interesting than the huge white wall. They had the same pretty much featureless surface except for the fact they had blacked out windows, though I had a pretty good guess that they were only blacked out on our side and you could still see out of them from the inside. They ranged in the amount of doors that were to the sides of them from three on the largest one we passed to none on the smallest one. Though I glanced what I thought was a door down one of its sides as we went past a gap between it and another building. A small pathway swept its way down between the two also so I was pretty sure of myself. We kept to this one path that went in a fairly zig zaggy type of motion until it broke into the side of the main paved pathway with the trees lining both sides. Then we walked along that towards the two-storey building that was standing ahead of us like as if it was just waiting for us.
As we got closer to the building I could see a few movements in the only window that I had seen so far that wasn't blacked out. Mostly flashes of darker shades of white and black against white walls not really much to go by but it was something. I wondered if we were even going into that building and was answered in a fairly short amount of time as we turned down one of the smaller paths again and towards a building that I hadn't noticed earlier. A two storey white building surrounded by one storeys and a three forked pathway leading to its single large door. There was a single small tree standing a few meters from the front door with what I could only guess to be a plaque a foot or so in front of it. We didn't get close enough to it so I could actually read what was on it so I had no clue to where we were going. Not that I had an idea anyway or anything, just less of an idea I guess.
We all stopped in front of the white door where the three of us were shoved together in a kind of corner where a small overhang that sat over the door left a sort of half-wall sticking out of the initial wall. Angela nearly latched onto me and I had to basically pick her off of me and step a little closer to Kite so as to keep some personal space. Kite just looked at the man in white and didn't move. We all watched the man in white and he looked to the four men said something and they left. The one that had been holding Kite gave him a look then looked to the man in white and shrugged his shoulders before following after his companions. I don't think we really knew what to do then but I grabbed Kite's arm just in case, I didn't really want to have him run off and get us in more trouble than he or us needed.
You know the whole time since we had actually seen sunlight properly again after getting out of the black van I had never thought of running. I guess in the back of my mind I knew we wouldn't of got far. And I had even less hope upon seeing where we were now, there would have to be hundreds of people in this place. And the semi-rough treatment I had gotten so far I didn't really believe was the worst they could dish out, from seeing what Kite had looked like after coming back I betted they could of done a lot worse.
I bit my lip as I watched the man in white turn his back on us and tap some buttons on a keypad then turn towards the door without a second glance to us. I had to hold my grip on Kite tighter as he tensed up, I wasn't willing to let him try anything on his own. I didn't want anything happening to him that didn't have a valid reason behind it. Just attacking the man would of done nothing for us. Kite gave me a look that could kill but as he looked at my face he dropped his head down then turned to the man in white again as the door opened in front of him. We all just stood there not knowing what to do until the man looked at us and made a waving motion for us to go inside the door ahead of him.
Me loosening my grip on Kite's arm followed him in and dragged Angela in after us. The man in white quickly followed suit, once he was through the door he pressed his palm to a panel on our side of the door and it immediately shut itself. He didn't give us a second glance as he walked forwards down a corridor and we had to step quickly after him. As much as I would of preferred not to of followed along, I didn't see any point in standing beside a door that I doubt we could open or even to walk around inside a building that as far as we knew had no other way out of. We didn't have our pokemon and we didn't have anything else that could help us so we didn't have much choice in the situation. I'm guessing the man thought that as well since he wasn't really being the most careful in keeping an eye on us. Kite pretty much mumbled and complained the whole time we followed and Angela just kept her hold on my arm and wouldn't utter a sound or do anything basically except follow every step I took. I'd let Kite go but continued to pull at his shirt and push him when he was about to go off track. He didn't agree with this either but I wasn't giving him a chance to do otherwise, even with Angela lagging me.
We turned a corner and stopped suddenly as we looked out into a wide-open room where a large desk was situated dead center of the room with a single chair and computer. A woman in plain white and hair tied up in a bun sat behind the computer typing away as our man in white said stuff to her. We quietly moved up from behind him as he waved a hand behind himself as if to say come here. The three of us stood there a little way off from the man and looked at the lady behind the desk. She was surprisingly tan looking for someone who probably worked inside all day and the thin wire-framed glassed and wisps of hair that had escaped her bun that hung around her face made her look really young. Not much older than one of the Waterflowers from Cerulean Gym, though probably a bit less clueless and bubble-brained than them if she was working in this place.
She paused a moment and looked up to the three of us and I would of jumped back if it weren't for Angela holding onto me still. I don't actually know what had surprised me but something had. She looked at us for less than a minute before mumbling something under her breath then went back to typing again. She said something out loud towards the man then lifted her eyes a moment from the screen and looked at us again as the man replied. Her fingers continued to type even as she looked at us then she said something directed towards us. She shook her head to the side to move some hair out of her eyes and repeated herself. All three of us looked at her blankly and didn't say a thing. She sighed and looked to the man as she stopped typing and said something to him in a little less than patient voice. He answered her with an added mutter under his own breath that cracked a smile on the woman's face for half a second. The man scowled at her and she smiled again to his openly obvious displeasure.
The woman tapped a key on the keyboard a couple of times as Angela whispered to me something that I didn't quiet catch. The woman piped up a second and looked in our direction once more.
"You kids speak English then?"
Mine and Angela's mouths must have dropped open because I found myself shutting it at the same time as she shut hers. Kite answered for us, "Yeah." Real intelligent and all but it's all you really need I guess.
The woman smiled and gave the man a look that I couldn't read then she went back to typing. She stopped for a moment and her eyes swept over the screen and read over something she had just typed, then she went back to what she was doing. Angela mumbled something under her breath like, "How'd she hear me." I didn't bother to reply and neither did anyone else so we just stood and watched for the moment.
"You three have names or you just called Kid1, Kid2 and Kid3?" She asked without looking up. Well someone had some sort of life in them in this place was the first thing to come to mind. Kite didn't seem all that willing to talk much and Angela just wasn't doing much in general so I answered her, "I'm Dew, he's Kite and she's Angela," pointing to each of us in turn. Kite scowled a little as he turned to look at a wall for a while and Angela shuffled a little more behind me as the woman nodded and typed something else into her computer. She mumbled something else under her breath then looked to the man and said something to him that seemed to wake him up from a daze that he had drifted into. He shook his head then mumbled something that must have been his reply then started to walk off again. He stopped immediately as the woman whistled and waved some papers in a manilla folder in the air. The man grumbled and strode back to the woman where he snatched the papers off of her and little more than stomped back to where he had been going. The woman held a smirk to her face as she leaned back in her chair and watched him leave. She swung the seat around a little as she stretched her arms up above her head then stopped as she spotted us still standing there. Kite looked over in her direction as she muttered something in that other language then spoke up to us, "You kids should follow him. Doc Pattern doesn't have much of what you'd call patience and even if he personally can't do nothing to you he can get people to." Her smile seemed a little crook and more forced as she finished up what she said. I don't think the end part was really much intended as a threat, more of a warning. It got us moving though anyway.
We all quickly moved after the direction of which he had gone and didn't take exactly long to catch up as he had stopped only a short way around a corner that we nearly passed. A shrill whistle got our attention and we hurriedly moved back towards him. He was still holding a scowl to his face as he opened up one of four folders and started to read through something that we had no chance of understanding. It seemed from what I could see mostly charts and long words in the same weird language and probably some English but long words have a large tendency of slipping past me. Especially one's I had never heard of before.
We all stood there silently except for the off mumble from the man in white and the shuffle of feet from one of us.
The walk was just as immensely boring as most of the others ones I had been on in the last 24hours and my interest wavered pretty quickly after the initial shock of what I had seen. I kept on bouncing my eyes about over the plain white buildings and wondering what on earth they contained. I was also cursing myself for not the first or last time for ever even thinking about walking through a construction site and vowing to myself that once we were safe again that I would never go through one again no matter what.
We followed along our same dirt path until we came to a smaller one then followed down that one towards one of the smaller one-storey buildings. We walked right on past that one and another three or four others of which I got to have a nice look at. They weren't really all that more interesting than the huge white wall. They had the same pretty much featureless surface except for the fact they had blacked out windows, though I had a pretty good guess that they were only blacked out on our side and you could still see out of them from the inside. They ranged in the amount of doors that were to the sides of them from three on the largest one we passed to none on the smallest one. Though I glanced what I thought was a door down one of its sides as we went past a gap between it and another building. A small pathway swept its way down between the two also so I was pretty sure of myself. We kept to this one path that went in a fairly zig zaggy type of motion until it broke into the side of the main paved pathway with the trees lining both sides. Then we walked along that towards the two-storey building that was standing ahead of us like as if it was just waiting for us.
As we got closer to the building I could see a few movements in the only window that I had seen so far that wasn't blacked out. Mostly flashes of darker shades of white and black against white walls not really much to go by but it was something. I wondered if we were even going into that building and was answered in a fairly short amount of time as we turned down one of the smaller paths again and towards a building that I hadn't noticed earlier. A two storey white building surrounded by one storeys and a three forked pathway leading to its single large door. There was a single small tree standing a few meters from the front door with what I could only guess to be a plaque a foot or so in front of it. We didn't get close enough to it so I could actually read what was on it so I had no clue to where we were going. Not that I had an idea anyway or anything, just less of an idea I guess.
We all stopped in front of the white door where the three of us were shoved together in a kind of corner where a small overhang that sat over the door left a sort of half-wall sticking out of the initial wall. Angela nearly latched onto me and I had to basically pick her off of me and step a little closer to Kite so as to keep some personal space. Kite just looked at the man in white and didn't move. We all watched the man in white and he looked to the four men said something and they left. The one that had been holding Kite gave him a look then looked to the man in white and shrugged his shoulders before following after his companions. I don't think we really knew what to do then but I grabbed Kite's arm just in case, I didn't really want to have him run off and get us in more trouble than he or us needed.
You know the whole time since we had actually seen sunlight properly again after getting out of the black van I had never thought of running. I guess in the back of my mind I knew we wouldn't of got far. And I had even less hope upon seeing where we were now, there would have to be hundreds of people in this place. And the semi-rough treatment I had gotten so far I didn't really believe was the worst they could dish out, from seeing what Kite had looked like after coming back I betted they could of done a lot worse.
I bit my lip as I watched the man in white turn his back on us and tap some buttons on a keypad then turn towards the door without a second glance to us. I had to hold my grip on Kite tighter as he tensed up, I wasn't willing to let him try anything on his own. I didn't want anything happening to him that didn't have a valid reason behind it. Just attacking the man would of done nothing for us. Kite gave me a look that could kill but as he looked at my face he dropped his head down then turned to the man in white again as the door opened in front of him. We all just stood there not knowing what to do until the man looked at us and made a waving motion for us to go inside the door ahead of him.
Me loosening my grip on Kite's arm followed him in and dragged Angela in after us. The man in white quickly followed suit, once he was through the door he pressed his palm to a panel on our side of the door and it immediately shut itself. He didn't give us a second glance as he walked forwards down a corridor and we had to step quickly after him. As much as I would of preferred not to of followed along, I didn't see any point in standing beside a door that I doubt we could open or even to walk around inside a building that as far as we knew had no other way out of. We didn't have our pokemon and we didn't have anything else that could help us so we didn't have much choice in the situation. I'm guessing the man thought that as well since he wasn't really being the most careful in keeping an eye on us. Kite pretty much mumbled and complained the whole time we followed and Angela just kept her hold on my arm and wouldn't utter a sound or do anything basically except follow every step I took. I'd let Kite go but continued to pull at his shirt and push him when he was about to go off track. He didn't agree with this either but I wasn't giving him a chance to do otherwise, even with Angela lagging me.
We turned a corner and stopped suddenly as we looked out into a wide-open room where a large desk was situated dead center of the room with a single chair and computer. A woman in plain white and hair tied up in a bun sat behind the computer typing away as our man in white said stuff to her. We quietly moved up from behind him as he waved a hand behind himself as if to say come here. The three of us stood there a little way off from the man and looked at the lady behind the desk. She was surprisingly tan looking for someone who probably worked inside all day and the thin wire-framed glassed and wisps of hair that had escaped her bun that hung around her face made her look really young. Not much older than one of the Waterflowers from Cerulean Gym, though probably a bit less clueless and bubble-brained than them if she was working in this place.
She paused a moment and looked up to the three of us and I would of jumped back if it weren't for Angela holding onto me still. I don't actually know what had surprised me but something had. She looked at us for less than a minute before mumbling something under her breath then went back to typing again. She said something out loud towards the man then lifted her eyes a moment from the screen and looked at us again as the man replied. Her fingers continued to type even as she looked at us then she said something directed towards us. She shook her head to the side to move some hair out of her eyes and repeated herself. All three of us looked at her blankly and didn't say a thing. She sighed and looked to the man as she stopped typing and said something to him in a little less than patient voice. He answered her with an added mutter under his own breath that cracked a smile on the woman's face for half a second. The man scowled at her and she smiled again to his openly obvious displeasure.
The woman tapped a key on the keyboard a couple of times as Angela whispered to me something that I didn't quiet catch. The woman piped up a second and looked in our direction once more.
"You kids speak English then?"
Mine and Angela's mouths must have dropped open because I found myself shutting it at the same time as she shut hers. Kite answered for us, "Yeah." Real intelligent and all but it's all you really need I guess.
The woman smiled and gave the man a look that I couldn't read then she went back to typing. She stopped for a moment and her eyes swept over the screen and read over something she had just typed, then she went back to what she was doing. Angela mumbled something under her breath like, "How'd she hear me." I didn't bother to reply and neither did anyone else so we just stood and watched for the moment.
"You three have names or you just called Kid1, Kid2 and Kid3?" She asked without looking up. Well someone had some sort of life in them in this place was the first thing to come to mind. Kite didn't seem all that willing to talk much and Angela just wasn't doing much in general so I answered her, "I'm Dew, he's Kite and she's Angela," pointing to each of us in turn. Kite scowled a little as he turned to look at a wall for a while and Angela shuffled a little more behind me as the woman nodded and typed something else into her computer. She mumbled something else under her breath then looked to the man and said something to him that seemed to wake him up from a daze that he had drifted into. He shook his head then mumbled something that must have been his reply then started to walk off again. He stopped immediately as the woman whistled and waved some papers in a manilla folder in the air. The man grumbled and strode back to the woman where he snatched the papers off of her and little more than stomped back to where he had been going. The woman held a smirk to her face as she leaned back in her chair and watched him leave. She swung the seat around a little as she stretched her arms up above her head then stopped as she spotted us still standing there. Kite looked over in her direction as she muttered something in that other language then spoke up to us, "You kids should follow him. Doc Pattern doesn't have much of what you'd call patience and even if he personally can't do nothing to you he can get people to." Her smile seemed a little crook and more forced as she finished up what she said. I don't think the end part was really much intended as a threat, more of a warning. It got us moving though anyway.
We all quickly moved after the direction of which he had gone and didn't take exactly long to catch up as he had stopped only a short way around a corner that we nearly passed. A shrill whistle got our attention and we hurriedly moved back towards him. He was still holding a scowl to his face as he opened up one of four folders and started to read through something that we had no chance of understanding. It seemed from what I could see mostly charts and long words in the same weird language and probably some English but long words have a large tendency of slipping past me. Especially one's I had never heard of before.
We all stood there silently except for the off mumble from the man in white and the shuffle of feet from one of us.