A kingdom of lies : 1

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She was everything you wanted your child to be. A loud and confident well performing student who had just finished university! Her name was Lynn. Lynn Calisto, remember that name. She made a staple her herself.
{Lynn}
I have always loved Kingdom. They've done so much for the world and I want nothing more then to be apart of the tams that help make everything the way they are! I got to start an apprenticeship there and I am so lucky for that. I went and got dressed into a nice outfit, black jeans and a plain black tee-shirt. I locked my doors behind me as I hastily left, eagerly awaiting my arrival and new job at kingdom corporation. The biggest company in the world.

You see, after the 'first light' a mysterious liquid-like substance spawned. This is Radienite. Now it powers our buildings and pretty much everything else. It even gave some people powers, these people are regarded as 'Radients'. Radients gained their power from exposure to radienite which caused them to do weird things. One girl can heal while another can fly through the air! One boy was gifted with fire abilities and another blasted by something gifted with unnatural abilities. These people caused the venice incident, in which venice mysteriously lifted into the air. I don't think that they really did it though.

I got to kingdom and I saw a scientist at the door waiting for me.
"Hello!" He chirped. "Are you Lynn?". I giggled.
"Yep. Hi!"
"Nice to meet you lynn! My names Dr **********!"
"Nice to meet you too!"
"Follow me this way please!" I followed behind the scientist, his shoes clicking against the tile floor of the facility. The facility had a dark outside but was very white on the inside, the light was blinding against these polished tiles. I got to an office with gray carpet which was a nice change from the chalky shingles. The walls were decorated with diplomas and achievements that this man held.
"Take a seat." He gestured towards the plush leather chair on the other side of a polished timber desk. I took a seat and he sat in the larger chair on the other side of the desk.

"Now... as a part of your internship here..." he began, "We would like to use you as a test subject. You won't be doing anything dangerous mind you, but it would be fantastic to have another being to test some hypotheses on." I felt my eyes light up at the idea.
"I would love too!" I shook his hand then he handed me a piece of paper. This was a contract for the time I would spend as a science assistant at Kingdom corporation. The contract extends over a six month period and I would get paid nine-thousand dollars for each experiment completed. I lightly read over the contents and signed the paper eagerly. That day I started my new job. Over the course of a few months I did some experiments to test the use of radenite in certain products. Like I used a certain shampoo and grew my hair out to see if the rate of hair growth was affected by the shampoo. I did a week of flexibility training and then we tried to see if I could do some poses better than I could before. Harmless stuff!

I was regarded as the best assistant in the region and was shown off to the high board. I had certificates and was given honors in the programme I was enlisted in. But I now see that all of this was a ruse. Near the end of my contract the scientists started to do regular CT scans on my brian to see how the experiments were doing. I trusted them so I didn't really care... I wish I cared... then they started to monitor what I ate and consumed. Then the big experiment came.

The point of this little experiment was to see if my daily activity affects how my brain behaves. The most efficient way to do this was to build me a replica apartment and have me live there for a week, of course I agreed. I walked into work that monday with a suitcase full of clothes. They would provide me with other stuff like food and toiletries. The big glass doors slid open and I was met with a scientist.

"Oh good! SN-239! You're here!" she called.

"Uh yea? Y-you can just call me 'Lynn' by the way."

"Yes, yes, Lynn... My bad!" she smiled, "Follow me this way I'll take you to the simulation room." I followed her and then she put me in a room. The room was special because one of the walls was one way glass, so the other scientists could see me. I just couldn't see them. I lived and recorded everything I did in a day. I even made my own schedule.

"08:00 Wake up

08:30 run on the treadmill

09:00 have breakfast

09:10 do work

10:00 have a snack

10:30 have a nap

12:30 have lunch

12:40 continue work

13:00 have a snack

17:00 go for CT scan

18:00 have dinner

20:00 go to bed. "

I followed this till Wednesday... when everything went bad.

I went for my CT scan as usual but when I went to lie down on the bed it was different. The bed had restraints on them, and this was obviously concerning.

"Why are their restraints?" I asked the scientists, jotting things down. Without looking up from the clipboard they answered.

"Oh yea its just the scenes we're exposing you too can be a bit dangerous and trigger bad reactions. It's just so you don't hurt yourself." They said,

"Oh alright."

LIARS

I sat down on the bed and they strapped me in. Then I went to sleep. I woke up and I was still in the room but the bed was right up and my feet were against a platform keeping my body from hurting. I looked around and saw the scientist.

"Hey, I'm awake now. You can untie me." I said, but all I got in response was the cold shoulder.

"Haha... very funny" I laughed, "Please untie me..." After that a band of scientists got together and started to wheel me out of the room. "Where are you taking me?" but again... no response. "Please say something..." silence... "Anything?!" I started to hyperventilate as they pushed me through a door and led me to a dark room with green glowing tubes all around the room. A station the size of the bed was in the middle of the room with worker benches that had nursing equipment on them. They rolled the bed I was on towards a brace. They mounted me on this brace and left me.

"Talk to me please..." I cried, hanging my head in defeat. Another random scientist came up to me with a needle and stabbed it into my arm. I screamed for him to get away from me but by the time I had registered what was going on I had already started to pass out because of the fast acting drug.

I woke up later. The room was full of scientists taking notes and there were two around me. The one on my left had a large needle with glowing green radientie. The liquid was a sage green glowing liquid running up my left arm and I could feel my body getting tingly. The person on my right was tattooing the right side of my neck.

"Who are you guys?" I asked, but they just continued what they were doing.

"Can you stop that?" I pleaded.

"Please just answer me..." I once again begged. I felt tears stream down my cheeks and I just gave into imminent slumber once more.

I woke up once again and found another person, this time injecting radienite into my right arm. The right side of my body felt tingly and I once again just started to cry. I looked up and saw wires running over the roof and the only source of light in the room was the glowing radiant in tubes that outlined the room.

"What's going to happen to me?" but that was it. That was the last time Lynn said anything.

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