Hello, here's some copyrighted material. LoK characters, world, and such belong to Eidos, not to me.

I DO own, however, Amber Lees.

This is just a crappy little prologue.

And a huge update from me.

The cell was small, but clean. The floor had white tiles and the wall had white plaster, even the small bed had white sheets. But you would be able to tell any of this when the lights were out.

If you did, then you could easily see a figure curled in a fetal position on the small bed. You wouldn't believe that she once Amber Lees, a 24-year-old woman who had owned a small apartment about 30 miles from the underground lab she was currently being held. You wouldn't believe that she worked as a secretary for a dentist's office and that she was still attending the local college and would be graduating that spring.

No, you wouldn't believe any of this, because what you would see was something no longer human. The skin was light slivery blue, almost turquoise, yet lighter, dark large wings, bigger than her body, were mounted on her back. Underneath the blankets, her hands and feet were cloven. Her once rusty color hair was now dark reddish hue, and if she were awake you would see her golden eyes looking at you with dread and fear.

Yes, Amber Lees was here, but not of her own accord. You see; she was starting to fall on hard times. She was caught up in studying for final exams and was getting behind on payments. She needed quick cash to keep from loosing her apartment whose lease was strict on payments. She could have gotten another cheaper apartment somewhere else, but she liked this one too much.

While she was munching on a bagel for breakfast, she saw an ad in the paper for anyone willing to be a test subject for 1,500 dollars. Of course, she went right up to the labs in the college and filled out some forms and let them draw her blood to see if she was compatible for the testing. She was.

The next day, she signed a contract, a contract she should have read first, and then they injected chemicals into her body. Her body had some reaction and thus she was taken to this underground lab. At first she was willing, they promised her more money if she allowed them further testing.

They injected chemicals into her body strand a creature's DNA within hers. The changes didn't start to happen till she was fretting about being kept in the lab so long. The people in white coats promised that she she'll be away from her job for a week, no more. Yet, it had been three weeks and there was no mention of her leaving the lab.

She hated being kept in a little room and have a nurse come in every hour to draw blood or inject potions into her blood stream that made her feel funny. Sometimes she was taken out of her room for tests. Any subject on going home was quickly dismissed or she was promised thoroughly that she would soon go home.

Then she began to notice the bluish sores on her legs and arms. She was terrified that the people in the white coats had given her cancer, but they assured her it was side effects from the tests.

Then she demanded to go home. She screamed, hollered, and threatened to bring charges on them for kidnapping. Then they showed her a contract that she signed before the testing began. It states real small at the bottom that if the willing subject is unable to make decisions based upon his/her welfare, the lab staff would make the decisions for the subject.

Amber said she was capable of making decisions on her own and she decided that she wanted to leave. The staff promised to bring in a doctor to examine her, a doctor of their own.

Thus Amber was trapped within that underground lab, trapped and helpless unable to do anything to prevent the changes in her body and mind.