"Just stay still," he whispered, raising his hand.
He threw chaos spear at it and the rattling stopped, "Can I move?"
"Yes, it's dead," he said.
She shuddered, "Ew."
"You okay?"
"Yeah. It's just..." she shuddered again, "Snakes."
He hugged her, "It's okay."
She sighed and sat up, "I wonder what's next."
As if in response, she and Shadow were thrown against the wall, and metal straps wrapped around them. She struggled against them, but found it to be of no use, and sighed. Men came in with more needles and she flinched away. The wall opened up and came down to be sort of like a bed and the men set to work. She tried to jerk away from the needles, but they found her anyways, and she fought back tears of pain.
They didn't seem to be doing anything to Shadow, but she couldn't be sure, and someone jabbed one into her arm. She gasped as she saw it fill up with blood and tried to jerk away. They slowly removed it and left. The straps on the table disappeared and Shadow caught her before she could fall. A bunch of small holes were all over her and she was growing weaker by the second.
"They did this last time too," she coughed.
He grimaced, "What did they do to you?"
"I-i can't talk about it," she said weakly.
Her eyes slowly closed and she fell asleep. He held her and waited for whatever was to come next.
She coughed violently and woke up. The whole room was filled with smoke and it felt incredibly hot. Her eyes widened as she saw the orange flames surrounding them and she felt Shadow pull them closer to the middle of the room. She coughed again, this time feeling something come up, and gagged.
She couldn't talk, the smoke was stinging her eyes, and clogging her nose. The little energy that remained in her was slowly draining away. She could tell that it was having affects on Shadow as well, but he was doing much better than she was. As usual, right before she could pass out, the fire was extinguished, and the smoke was gone.
She coughed again and red stained the floor, "Ugh."
A thing of water and two pieces of bread suddenly fell into the room and Shadow quickly got them. He pushed the water into her hands and she cautiously drank. Then he gave her both pieces of bread.
"But, you need to eat too," she muttered.
"You need it more," he said.
She took one, nibbled on it, then devoured it, and the other one. Then she just sat there and looked around the room.
"I hope the others can find us," she whispered.
"They'd better. I don't think you'll last long," he said as she coughed up more blood.
She was incredibly pale and she began to tremble, "I don't feel too good," she admitted.
"Come on," he said, "You need sleep."
She relented and fell asleep almost immediatly.
The man watched all this through the security camera on the wall, "Isn't that sweet? They're in love. Perfect."
"What do we do now sir? I don't think we can keep up the tests," a soldier said, "Her health is decreasing every second and there's not much left."
"I know," he said, "That was the whole point."