The Shrink Program

Chapter 171

It was probably inappropriate.

To suddenly realise, mid chaos, that my little brother is going to kill me.

That's what walking in silence does to a person. Allows the full weight of what they have done to hit them like a ton of bricks.

Though I'm usually pretty optimistic about these sorts of things...

But no.

Devin is going to kill me.

For everything I had put him and the rest of my family through, I would die a slow, painful death.

And just like that... I suddenly didn't mind the idea of being stuck down here, to live out the rest of my days as a starved lab monster.

I would settle down, find a nice lab monster husband, have lab monster babies and grandbabies, watching them grow until the day I peacefully passed away, dozing in my rocking chair.

Yea.

That would be nice.

"Are we there yet." I near screeched, clutching my head in distress."I'm being driven mad by hunger."

"Don't make me turn this car around," Alex growled from up ahead.

It had taken a long while, and at one point, he had barely been able to move from the pain... But true to Vain's prediction, Alex had recovered his strength the further we travelled.

Eventually, he had asked to be put down with a polite wack to the head.

Needless to say, Vain felt far less charitable after that, thus ended Alex's free ride.

Good for him.

Still clutching my head, I raised an eyebrow at the little smartass.

"What car-?"

"You heard him, Maddison," Vain said. "We'll get there when we get there. Be patient. More importantly, be quiet."

Ganging up on me, eh?

I crossed my arms with a pout.

"But Nigel's annoying me. "

Both Vain and Alex looked at Nigel to judge the truth of this statement.

"I'm afraid Breathing is just something you will have to learn to tolerate Maddison."

Pffft. Says who?

I looked back up at the boy carrying my cage. Nigel blinked back at me, smiling apologetically for thwarting my lies with his innocence.

Damn.

"... I'm bored."

As Vain sighed, Alex took a turn.

With an unnatural leap, the small child cleared the first damaged steps of a new set of stairs.

The red-head turned back with a smug look, as us non-superhumans were faced with the challenge of getting over the pulverised mess of concrete.

Except me, of course. I got to ride in the cage, like a princess.

A captured princess, but still, pretty sure I count as royalty.

Though I wasn't the only one.

Smiling like the cat with the canary, Alex offered a hand down to help Vain over the broken rubble.

It was easy to understand why he had made the gesture. The chunk taken out of the stairway was sizeable... And Vain wasn't the most athletic of sorts.