My Pet Human {UNDER SERIOUS EDITING}

Chapter Sixteen: 'Escape'

Colton sat in the corner of the pterodactyl house, as unresponsive as ever, with his legs crossed beneath him and his eyes wide open. He could hear Charlene snoring loudly beside him, her head buried in amongst one of the fluffy pillows Ben had furnished his new home with. Genesis Eve had left the house less than ten minutes ago to his knowledge, but he could hear her too, sobbing at the windowsill. The moon shone brightly over her hunched form. Colton's ears still stung from Ben's loud voice, despite the fact that night had already fallen and the two Laquanians, Ben and Malroy, were asleep in his bed. But the young human's mind was still trying to piece together what exactly had happened that day.

For starters, the voice in his head had taken over his body for a fleeting moment, and had uttered a word that was now lost to him in a sea of blocked memories. Sodium Krypt-- As hard as he tried, the rest of it wouldn't come to him. Still, it sounded important when the voice had said it, and it was the one thing that had gotten the message through to Charlene that he'd been... drugged?

Had he been drugged by the Laquanians in his past? Now that all the action was over, he realised just how odd it sounded, to have been injected with some kind of serum-- Sodium Krypt-something-- which induced his obedience. It made no sense; why would the masters even have a system of manual obedience training if they could simply inject humans like him in a heartbeat and take away their memories? If it was all true, then it would explain why Colton had so little knowledge of where he'd come from, other than the basic procedures at the Institute. The world is confusing... He thought to himself for the hundredth time that day.

That's one thing we can agree on.

He hesitated. The voice in his head had said nothing since his fainting episode; he'd begun to wonder whether trying to show him those strange words had destroyed it altogether. He noticed that it sounded weaker, at the very least- as if the pain that had seared through his skull earlier had effected it more than Colton himself.

Who are you? He tried thinking again, hoping it would reply this time.

It didn't answer.

Instead, Colton snapped his head up to see Genesis Eve walking back into the pterodactyl house. She glanced over at him cautiously, her eyebrow raised as though surprised to see him still awake. He said nothing as she sat down on the sock Ben had left him from the night before, but couldn't help but take in her white/blonde hair and those sharp, grey eyes. When she finally met his own green ones, they narrowed.

"You're not like the others, are you?" She asked.

Colton opened his mouth to speak, but as usual, the words clogged up in his throat. With an internal sigh he opted for a more neutral response. An obedient response. "I don't know."

Eve leaned in closer, so that her voice was barely a whisper. "I can sense it, you know." She reached out to touch his chest, his heart beating faster at the contact.

"Pardon?"

"Adam." She said softly. "His blood... it's flowing in your veins."

Bewildered, Colton shook his head. "I don't understand..."

"Of course you don't." She sighed. "If you're the test subject, you won't understand anything. He made it that way."

"Who made it that way?" Colton blurted before his lips could clamp shut once again.

Eve shot him a pointed look. "You probably won't remember by tomorrow, if I tell you."

"Please." He whispered, wincing when the same pain as before shot through his brain, jarring him.