They walked slowly forward. Dead and yet alive. Fire raged across the horizon and a young woman with short cropped hair stood, staring out at the damage that her comrades, and herself, had just caused. The pink in her hair glimmered and reflected the orange flames and the wind made both her hair and the flames dance.
A long string of drool fell from her slightly agape mouth and a giggle splurged from her lips. "Fire." The word erupting like it had never been spoken before and she let another laugh escape.
A couple of the other adults began to have the same reaction. All of them making funny sounds and commenting about the flames. Screaming emanated from the valley below the cliff where the group of four stood, pigeon toed, knees bent and fists clenched.
There was this cold breeze, a thunder so loud that a couple of the adults covered their ears and cursed the sky; lightening threatened to strike.
The woman with the short hair looked up and smiled at the sky. She waved her hand above her head and a small flame bounced around her hand in a slow circle. Bounce, Bounce, Bounce-bounce, Bounce. It was so beautiful.
A man with dark hair and a cold icy stare wiped snot from his nose loudly with an exaggerated swipe of his arm. Waddling over to the woman and resting his forehead against her back.
Unlike most bloodied and bruised bodies, these adults had clean, smooth skin and were wearing camouflage and army helmets. Each had a number burned onto their foreheads and on their wrists. 12, 21, 13, 31.
More screams from the valley below, more fire balls fall from the hands of the patients standing outside of a pristine white hospital, ten stories tall, wider than someone might want to measure.
A doctor stood at the gate, watching, writing, shaking his head, "Another experiment down the drain..." he turned away and motioned to the team of paramedics on standby.
They rushed past him, through the gate, and began grabbing the patients. Some were injected with this clear thick fluid while others were simply tasered or handcuffed. The strong men and women dragged the patients through the gate and into an ambulance.
"Ready, sir," called a tall large paramedic with chiseled features and blue sea eyes.
The journal in the doctor's hand suddenly feels heavy as he watches another five patients disappear. He failed again.
"Yes. Bring in the next five."
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Sanity
Mystery / ThrillerA psychiatric hospital with a need for test subjects has adopted a large pool of human lab rats that will under go the torturous experimentation that is needed for the doctors to understand memories and how to preserve them. Janice Wheeler, with the...
