When Max told them to be quiet, Angel looked around.
There were many other experiments in the room, but most of them didn't have a clear thought process, and others had no thoughts. One was humming in it's mind, in such a way that made Angel feel like crying to hear the pour thing's thoughts.
"Hurry, Max, we need to go." Iggy whispered.
"Too late." Max murmured, looking up at them, with big brown eyes that were glassed over and bloodshot.
Angel looked up. "Max, no one is coming. I can't hear any of their thoughts." Angel said.
"But... This..." Max moved a little and grabbed her shirt, pulling it to show the top of her back.
There was a black circular thing attached to her back. Below it was a trail of blood that was dry.
"What's that, Max?" Fang asked, quietly.
"What?" Max crooked out. She tried to stay focused, though she was exhausted from being slaved by Itex. After a few anxious minutes, Max--without meaning to--began to fall forward into Fang's chest. When she did so, she also began to lose consciousness.
"Max!" Fang said, noticing her passing out.
Max tensed and jolted up, her brown eyes wide in terror.
"What was that?" Angel asked, her own eye wide in feear, as Max's mind went temporary blank.
Max was completely silent for a moment, then she let out a pained moan. She gripped Fang's shirt, that she wasn't even aware she had grabbed.
Fang watched Max suffer, and it burned a hole in his chest. After seeing those brown eyes ooze tears, Fang couldn't look at Maxany longer. As he looked away, he saw that the thing on her back had a florescent light shining red. "Nudge, come here." he said, softly.
Nudge's head shot up, and she moved over to Fang. "Mmm?" she said, in a questioning tone.
"I want you to ID what this is." Fang said, looking at the thing on Max's back. "Angel, come here as well."
"Yes?" Angel asked, moving closed to Fang and Max.
"Tell me what Nudge is thinking when she's thinking of this."
"Okay." Angel said, softly. She sighed and studied Nudge's expression.
Nudge got onto her knees and looked at the lit up circular thing on Max's back. She touched it, softly, and looked up at Fang.
"It's a teaser. Every time Max begins to fall asleep, it shocks her." Angel said, in a sad tone.
Max looked up at the Flock... her Flock, and then bowed her head. "And I can't get it off....." she murmured, to an extent that only Fang and Iggy could hear.
