Shining Truth

Chapter Five: A Chat

We were in the cafeteria, again. This is when we planned our escape, they gave us things to entertain ourselves in our cells and we made a system of symbols. We would show each other what we had drawn and pass messages that way. Like a dress meant we had been probed with needles, because needles are used to stitch dresses. I learned who the others were, Skye had the doge shirt, Paige had on a grey shirt, Emily had brown hair and was a brute, I already knew Elizabeth, and then there was Abby, she had the white glasses. The 'physicians' allowed us to bathe and dress in different clothes. The clothes were hideous and we only wore them when we had to wash our normal clothes. I didn't want them to think, they had more control over us. I didn't want to exist for them. I still hated wearing a dress constantly, though.
We sat at the tables in what we called the "lunch room" talking, trying to distract ourselves from the reality we were living. The food wasn't bad. It was like cafeteria food. Cheap, but not terrible. I sat eating my tomato soup and grilled cheese. It would take a lot to plan an escape, and we were taking a lot.
Over the course of a few days, we started to develop abilities which was kept on tab by the scientists. We had decidedly named them so. Abby began to bend light to hide herself. Skye began to see things, I said it was in the future. I was yet to be proven wrong. She told me not to touch a fork because it was going to bounce and land in my hair. It did, I had knocked the edge of it with my hand and it flew into the air, and landed in my hair. Emily began to control wind, I felt like her abilities could, and would, go further. Paige could change what objects looked like and were. I hadn't discovered mine yet. The scientists gave us a pill everyday to prevent the effects of what they had done. I kept wondering, though, what was it all for?
They soon started to have us go outside, under heavy surveillance of course. There were guards around every corner. I doubted we could escape this way. We would be outnumbered by about fifty.
They made us run, jump, test our skills. I learned what they had done to my eyes. The blue-green had become a shade of purple, and I could see better in the dark. I still didn't know what they had done to me. I felt out of my skin. Maybe I was the control group in some manner.
"Hey, Yui, pass me a napkin," Emily said. I handed her some napkins, and finished my sandwich. I rubbed my hands together to get off the crumbs. My soup was already finished, so I sat there talking. I was relaxed. It had been a long time.
The men in black clothing came to take us to our cells. I knew we were prisoners, but we didn't have a plan yet, but we would. I walked obediently to my room, and sat down on the cushioned floor. Once they left the room I continued my little map of the place, fashioned to look like a crossword. Pleased with my work, I fell asleep. We would get out of here soon enough.