"Will she be alright here?" a soft voice said. Ernest, asking Niels about her, probably. "I don't know. She had a hard time today, and Alfy freaks her out," Niels told him, just as soft. The wind blew in her direction, which was probably the only reason Sarah could hear it at all. "She knows we'll protect her right? She's one of us now," Ernest said, and Sarah heard only a soft noise of someone turning in his sleeping bag. Then a different voice, and a shadow over her. Niels. He put his sleeping bag next to hers, and gave her a small kiss on her temple. "Sleep well, dear Sarah," he said, as the shadow disappeared, but she could still feel his warmth. With Niels next to her, Sarah felt a lot safer, and it didn't take her long before she fell in a deep sleep.
It started out as a nice dream. A nice room, cream and soft pink. A big soft bed where Sarah woke up. Only she was younger, and when she looked in the mirror she realised she was about twelve. "Where am I?" Sarah wondered, though the younger version of her seemed comfortable in this place. She walked to her closet and took a white lab coat. *Well, apparently I work here, of something,* Sarah thought. She got dressed, and took her lab coat with her. Breakfast was down in the Dining Hall, and Sarah talked with people of various ages, both boys and girls. *Well, that's new. In the Glade Jessie and I are the only two girls,* Sarah thought, but it was clear to her that she didn't dream about the Glade. But it was the familiarity that shocked her most. Sarah knew these people. That was Miss Frost, she was the leader over her small group of students. And all the children at the table, she knew them too. There were eight of them, they were the best of all children here, and were selected to help out the laborants with their experiments. Because they were all very good at biology, at chemistry and human anatomy, they were selected. Sarah, and David, her best friend, were the only two that were allowed in the restricted area, but all eight of them helped out in their own way. It was those eight children that were her only friends, because none of the other children dared to talk to them. And eventually they all left the compound again. But not them. They were the elite, the treasured children of W.I.C.K.E.D., they even outsmarted some of the adults here. Sarah, David, Marie, Neil, Max, Nick, Edwin, and Dayenne. Three girls, five boys, and they were each other family.
"Ready for tomorrow Sarah? I've heard Miss Frost has a special surprise for you," Marie asked her. "Well, no. Not really. But I guess I'll have to be ready anyway. Tomorrow will determine whether or not they will promote me," young Sarah said, smiling so bright that Sarah knew this was what young Sarah wanted, what she had once wanted. But she couldn't remember what… Sarah instantly recognised her friends, but only because younger Sarah knew them. *What did they do to me before the sended me to the Glade?* she wondered, but given how she was about three years younger here, Sarah was sure this wasn't the moment she was about to be shipped off to the Glade. Not yet anyway. "I know, it's just so excited! You could be our new boss Sarah!" Max smiled, and Sarah knew they would except as their superior. If only because she was smarter them all of them, all but David. "David and Sarah, the Leaders of Pathology. I'm sure the two of you can discover so much about the cure. I've heard Miss Frost has fresh bodies brought here for your tests!" Neil said, and he sounded so excited. And so was the younger Sarah. But older Sarah, the one that slowly started to remember, she thought differently. *Bodies? Fresh bodies? What did they make me do?* Sarah was disgusted, but her younger self laughed. "Well, who knows. We all know it doesn't matter. Old, new. The things still work the same. I just hope I'll pass the test," Sarah said. "I'm sure you will," Dayenne said, and Sarah smiled at her. Young Dayenne, she was the youngest of them, only nine years old. Edwin was the eldest, he was fourteen. All of them aged between 14 and 9, but Sarah never knew why. She did know that once you turned 15, you were gone. Either they were promoted, like she and David were about to be promoted, or they were send away to help at another compound. *Which meant they were send to a maze!* Sarah thought, now understanding where all the missing children had went too. They were all sended to a maze, but they weren't here, so were where they.
David and Sarah walked to the office of Miss Frost. The lady took them to a cold laboratorium, where two patients were waiting for them. "David, Sarah, you may proceed," Miss Frost told them. Sarah and David each took their own table, and started working. They had the standard procedures they had to perform, and so Sarah and David did. It took them three hours, and David was done before Sarah could finish up. Miss Frost sended them back to their room, and made them wait. Wait until the next day…
And when she called them at last, both David and Sarah were extremely nervous. They held each other's hand as they walked into the office of Miss Frost. "David, Sarah, well done! You were trained very well, and the both of you will now leader you team! It is with honesty and curiosity that you will lead the six others, and we do expect good results from you! Congrats! You are now the Leaders of the Youth Pathology group." Miss Frost gave them a pin, and older Sarah wondered how they could have been promoted do easily, based on one experiment. *No, not experiment. Autopsy… The bodies were dead…*
That was the moment Sarah woke up, screaming! She had worked with bodies, with dead people. She looked in their bodies to find a cure. And she had a feeling there was more. That was why the Med-jecks triggered something, it was a lot like her old job back at W.I.C.K.E.D.. Only this time, she would save lives, instead of working with dead bodies. She would make a real difference here!
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