The White Room

Chapter 7

I sit in the training room.

Henry walks up behind me.

"What happened?"

"There was this girl... She arrested me. And now... They've got her."

"I see. You're okay though right?"

"No, I'm not okay. I've been through the white room. I know its deceptions, I know it's every move. I'm fine going in it. It scares me every time of course, but now, I have nothing to lose. I never really did have anything to lose or be scared of. She hasn't been in it. She will be broken because of the right things she tried to do. But I... I will not even change. I can't stand to see people broken from the white room. They scare me. The stories they tell. The white room doesn't hold any power over me. THEY know that others hold me here captured and broken."

Henry nods. He's seen me before. He knows I'm broken beyond all help. THEY use me. I'm number one. There's a reason that girl got me in trouble. Someone who has nothing left can give people anything. Anything.

Haris comes up seeing my downcast look.

He must be confused. I usually look confident and don't look all broken and downcast.

"Ax, what's wrong?" 

"Nothing kid, nothing. We all have bad days. How can a day here not be bad?"

"Are you gonna go to the white room?" He says still concerned.

"Yes, Haris but don't you worry about me. I don't have it half as bad as you guys do."

That was partially a lie and mostly the truth. It was true they had it bad in the fact that they were shown different situations. The white room shows me who I am hurting. Past victims and what happens when I don't listen to them. They hurt others so I keep going. If I don't murder someone they assign me, two die in their place. So I have to do it.

I guess I should say what the white room is. You already know that it is a room of torture. But what is the torture shown? The white room is obviously white, but unlike our rooms, it has nothing in it.

The white room is a simulation of sorts... It shows things in the world like it is real. You can feel  and touch in the white room. None of us really know how they can make the fake simulations look and feel like the real world.

The white room shows five things. Your past, your loved ones, What you most fear, and especially for me and none other people I have hurt and it also shows others going through the white room. The last thing they show is the white room itself. Sitting in a room with nothing in it and nobody else for weeks is especially hard on the person.

Anyways, it is the most torturous thing ever made. The only thing that is possibly good about the white room is that they can't see what is in the visions which is really confusing. How can they simulate a room so complicated and not see the results? So, your secrets can't be shared.

Another good thing is that not all of the visions are true. Except for me, you have to figure out what version is true. They only show me the truth.

I started realizing this when I told the other boys about my encounter with the white room and that I had seen them in it as well.

The boy would say he had been in the white room a while ago and it was particularly bad.

Then I would ask them what they had seen.

Their expressions in the white room would have to do with an emotion they were feeling in the vision they had seen.

I couldn't see what they were seeing I could only see them sad, mad, hopeful, scared, and broken.

It always matched up.

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