The man shouts, but I'm not worried as anyone who passes by won't think it's any different from the usual screams. I then turn my attention to the security camera on the wall just above my head, of which I am out of view. If I'm going to make it any further I can't risk being seen on them, but I know where the Control Room is as I've passed it many times to the testing rooms and I've seen the inside of it a few times when the door was left open.
So I close my eyes and use my gift to find the guard in the Control Room. Brenner trained me to project illusions into minds several feet away, but the Control Room is much further then that and it takes most of my energy to do it. I know I can though and also I can't turn back now, so with that I step in front of the security camera above me, hoping that the guard in the Control Room will only see an empty hallway on their screen.
Not wanting to waste a second, I switch off the radio and wipe the blood from my nose with some cloth I tore off my bed, and then hide it, the keys and the radio under my hospital gown. I proceed down the hallway now projecting the man I locked in the dark room beside me in case I meet anyone along the way, but I make it back to my room undisturbed.
I get to work unlocking the other numbered rooms, but I feel drained as I continue to keep myself invisible on the security cameras. Thinking of the others joining me soon, I force myself through the pain, but as I go down the long hallway, through every single room, I am disappointed when I find the rooms vacant.
In room 11, there is the same bed and desk as every other room, but unlike the others there are two other strange things that stick out: a soft toy of a lion and a stick figure drawing of a child and a man with names written above them, Papa for the man and 11 for the child.
I hate this, I hate this place and I hate what they have done to us. I run out of that room and down the hallway which I know leads to the Rainbow Room. If the others are in there, then we can all leave this place right now.
I try to find if there are guards inside so I can project an illusion, but I can't. There is no one in there. I go inside to make sure, but all I see is what's supposed to be in the room. Tables, chairs, shelves, games, rainbow prints on the walls and floor, and then in the large mirror on the other side of the room I see my reflection staring back at me. I see my anger and my disappointment.
I turn around and leave before I let any doubt set in and begin walking back up the hallway. I stop by room 11 again and then remember how the guards used to take us to a large area to eat sometimes, all of us together except for Eleven.
I try the radio and listen for any message about the others, but I get distracted by a security camera pointed directly at me. I'm still maintaining the illusion, but it's really taking a toll as I feel myself struggling to even walk. Though I'm assured that if I was seen by now I would have heard something about that on the radio, and so I still have time.
No message comes though about the others, but I think I remember the way to the eating area and begin heading down a longer hallway. The hallway starts to look familiar and I think I remember where I need to turn off.
Suddenly a man and a woman enter the hallway, but they are talking and facing the other way. I quickly project the man from the dark room into their minds, making him appear beside me and then begin walking down the hall. I keep my head down, so that if the other man and woman look at me they won't see my nose bleeding.
As I pass them they don't appear to notice anything suspicious, but then as I make the turn off I hear the woman call out.
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Kali (K8LI) : A STRANGER THINGS Story
Mystère / ThrillerKali Prasad was abducted when she was a child, but now she is grown and so have her gifts. Journey back to the time when Kali was referred to as Subject Eight, in this one shot story about the horrors of Hawkins National Laboratory.
