A Burning Heart

Chapter 3

    I marched down the hallway to the lab, i was sure that Tylin would be running test results after his previous "interview" with Akane. After last night, when she explained to me what had happened, Id been thinking about what to say to my collegue. What was I supposed to say anyway? "Hey dude, i heard youd een interogetting the insane test subject we captured the other day. Could you btry and be a little less hrsh with it?" I was going to sound crazy, maybe I should just let it be. If I dont tell anyone, no onw will know.
But, I couldnt do that. I already knew that I couldnt. I had never seen a test subject cry before. Maybe yell, or cry in pain. But she actully cried, and felt deep emotional pain.The way her face turned red and her voice croaked mid-sentene. Her tears welled up in her eyes as she tried to hold them back.
My body felt numb, I was nly dully aware of my feet hiting the tiled floor og the corridoor. Before i knew it, I was in front of the door to the lab. Any other tme I wold have been overjoyed to use this room. Now I was just scared,less scared for my self and more scared for the people around me. Tylin could think I was starting to feel ssorry for her, and fire me. Which would me out of a job and me and Opal would be out on the streets again. Dr.Lokai might think Akane brainwashed me, and would preform all kinds of experiments on the both of us to find out. On top of everything else, this was wrong. Hunters werennt supposed to feel bad or pity the creatures they were studying, it was unheard of.
So now I stand deciding weather or not to open the door and tell Tylin off, or walk away and pretend none of this ever hppened.

No, I'd decided what I was going to do about this and I wasnt about to turn back now. The door knob felt cold against my hand, but before I could pull the aluminium door open it swung towards me from the other side.

"Great! You're just the person I wanted to see! Come on, come, lets go." Tylin yanked me I into the white room, and excitedly booted up the main computer. He turned to me and ran a hand threw his bleached hair. Th computer whirred on as Tylin spoke to me.

"Okay, so I was running some tests on the new subject last night and I found some very interesting results." He was clicking at the computer, when I remembered why I even came here in the first place.

"Wait, Ty, hold on a sec. I was actul going to ask you about-" Tylin brought his hands in the air to silence me.

"Whatever it is, it can wait. Now just look at the diagnostics." He gestured excitedly to the screen. I give up fighting him and studied the results.

They seemed...normal.

"Dude I know your like, super excited, but this looks perfectly normal to me, just normal, backs mental health results." He didn't seem discouraged though, if anything, he was even more excited.

"Exactly."

Then it clicked. I'd forgotten the main reason we ran these tests, to check the mental state of any subject. Usually, subjects were unstable, most of them couldn't even talk. But her results were normal, she was perfectly stable. Hell, she was probably ore stable then I was.

"How is she stable?" I spoke without thinking, and it startled both of us. Tylin cleared his throat.

"I don't know, I was thinking about running some more test later this afternoon, you could help if you want."

No, no now this is even more wrong. She's practically human seeing all this data, and now Tylin wants to do more tests, but after mental testing comes...

"Physical Testing.." Tylin looked overjoyed as he spoke.

"Yes! That's what I was thinking, I want to see what her limits are. How much damage she can take, what shes resistant too, or-"

"No! Tylin, you cant do that!" I quickly shut my mouth after realising what I'd said. It grew awkwardly quiet. Tylin' face grew a stony expression.

"And why cant I?" It was more of a statement than a question.

"You just cant, look at the test results. Those are the same results you'd get from testing a human. She thinks like us Ty. You don't understand shes-"

"You're right, I don't understand. What are you even talking about Xavier?" I shuffled in place, keeping my gaze level with the floor.

"I-I don't know." I swallowed hard and made towards the door. I heard Tylin scoff and return to his typing. 

I heard the metal door slam behind me.  The air in the hallway felt cold. I started the long walk back to the lobby.