Faceless

Chapter 22: Rebellion

It finally happened.

I met Thea at a time we'd arranged and she had all the necessary chemicals.

"I said it was for a personal experiment. I've made sure nobody can trace it back to me. Good luck!" and then she walked away, nothing else was said.

I took the chemicals to the music room. That room was carpeted and pretty out of the way. A little while ago I'd convinced 006 to join me even though she was very dismissive of the idea the plan would work. "We'll get tortured" she reminded. 

"Is a life here really worth living?"

"Yes if it's to avoid that fate"

"I don't think so. I'm tired of seeing people die in my vision, I think I'm getting used to pain at this point. Besides, you're acting like it's certain we'll get caught!"

"It almost is". I couldn't be bothered to press further.

I poured all the chemicals together. A small fire grew on the carpet and we made out quick escape.

It took only minutes for the fire to spread across the whole school, engulfing everything in its way. We celebrated too early, we thought that once firefighters got here we'd get a chance to communicate, or the people on top would burn to death, or at least if there was no school there could be no corruption.

But none of that happened, instead we got the worst case scenario. The fire was controlled, but not by local firefighters, it turned out that they already had emergency services that were under their control on-call and they were able to deal with it without the outside world being any the wiser. Our plan failed.

And we were idiotic enough to set the fire in a room with a camera assuming it would be destroyed. Fairy tales always ended with a happy ending, this was not a fairy tale. It was too gory to be one. Yet.

Turns out 006 was right, we did get caught, and now we were to suffer a fate worse than death. We decided to keep Thea out of it though, we decided telepathically that she had nothing to do with this, we decided to at least cut the losses.