𝙻𝚄𝚅 𝙻𝟶𝟶𝙺𝚂 𝙿𝚁𝟹𝚃𝚃𝚈 𝟶𝙽 𝚄

𝟸𝟻.𝚎𝚛𝚛𝟶𝚛.𝟸𝟻

Lia did return back some hours later, she claimed she was fine and she seemed the same. She told Yuna, her wallmate, that they really did just run a variety of scans and tests. It was nothing too scary but she also doubts that it ends there. It could be a prolonged study.

She misses Alaric.

When they came in to get Yuna next, she went peacefully, trusting Lia's words. It seems like they don't intend to harm them. That's if they don't violently fight back like Yeji did...

But when Yuna returned and they tried taking Ryujin next, Ryujin refused.

"What are you doing??" Chaeryeong said as her other wallmate, she doesn't want Ryujin getting hurt like Yeji.

"Yuna's back but Yeji isn't? Where is she?" Ryujin questioned the guards. She did notice that the ones who took Lia and Yeji were the same, while the ones who took Yuna and her are different.

"There's nothing to be afraid of, follow us, Ryujin." One of the guards spoke, they were all covered in head to toe with their uniforms, so she could barely tell who was talking. The only thing that would give it away is their body language as they spoke.

"I will not go until I have an answer. Tell me where she is." Ryujin stood her ground.

The guards looked at one another, one shrugged which influenced the other to also be careless.

"Her nose is broken, she's getting extra treatment for that."

"He broke her fucking nose?" Ryujin repeated in disgust, swiping her arm away when a guard tried grabbing her.

"And cracked the other's rib. Now let's go, we've asked nicely and answered your questions. Let's move it."

"I wanna see her."

"Not gonna happen. You'll see her when she's back in her cell."

They both grabbed her this time, pulling her out of the room to be tested like the others. Her stomach churned, she saw droplets of blood along the path they took, she knew it was from her lover. The droplets went into a different room than her, the room had a machine that looked like an MRI machine.

"Where's Yeji exactly?" Ryujin asked, this time to everyone in the room and the observation room.

"She'll be back in her cell, in the meantime, you'll have to lay down on the white pad there, Ryujin. Dr. Cobalt is going to ask you questions through the intercom and you just speak normally to answer. The mics in the room will pick up your voice just fine."

"I wanna see Yeji first."

"You're not–"

"I wanna see her!"

Everyone seemed to either audibly or visibly sigh at Ryujin's refusal to comply.

"Just let her see the subject. We don't have time for any more disobedience. I would just tell you to use the needle on her, but then she can't answer the questions and we already have to wait until Yeji can answer the ones we have for her." Ryujin heard, it was a rather familiar voice. If she was still bolts and screws, her software would have told her immediately who the voice belonged to. But as a human, she had to look through the observation room glass.

The woman was pale, had black hair back in a low bun, her face was round yet oval and she wore a dark grey suit. Seo Soojin stood in the observation room with other people vital to this operation.

"You..." Ryujin spat, remembering everything that woman has done to them. And no, it didn't start with putting her wife up to kidnapping them. It started the very day she yanked on Yeji's hair because she doubted the override worked. The fact that she used pain as a test to see if Yeji felt as if there weren't so many other harmless ways to tell.