The Trials (The First Book in the Life Button Series)

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I took a breath of fresh air. The air on the other side of that wall! That's right, I got out of that Land Siren's lair. But I don't see that third test anywhere. It's as if he's vanished from thin air.

Well...I also don't know how the Rhyming Man could've gotten over the wall without going through the Land Siren place. That doesn't make sense now that I think about it. Maybe that means that either he got over using the Governments or he followed me in. Strange. Or maybe he didn't even come through at all.

"Hello there miss. Sorry for the rude introduction earlier."

Ah...there he is. That same confident voice and that same scraggy ruffian boy. "That is fine. All though I do not call it an introduction."

How good it feels to talk to someone who is....looks normal. I don't know if he is normal at all. Maybe he is another Land Siren. But Land Sirens portray what you wish for the most at the moment. I don't wish for a man to marry at all. In fact, I don't plan on becoming married to anyone...or anything. "You are my third test."

"That I am. That is a test of trust. In me. In your Government. If I told you now that killing me would ultimately destroy you, would you believe me?"

"I'd say that you didn't lie to me about the second test. And that you don't seem to be rhyming since I got through. I must be wary and I'm not sure if I do. But you seem to carry no weapons, no poisons and nothing of harm. I think I'd let you live...for now. Unless you betrayed me to death." I think what I'm saying makes sense. If it does, I'm happy. If it doesn't, I'm not sure.

"Well said. Smartest girl out of the two I've ever spoken with. You kind of remind me of her. Same intelligence.
Same-OW!" He grabs his hand, as if burned.

I stare at him curiously, "Are you alright?"

"I'm not allowed by the Governments to reveal too much about the last woman in here. If I do, if I speak her name, if I say her hair color, I'd surely be shocked to death." His baby blue eye look up into mine. "We wouldn't want that, now would we?"

"Depends if you are friend or foe?"

"Friend." He smiles, showing off a perfect set of white shiny teeth.

"Ally...for now." I say, suspicious of his intentions.

He laughs a rich golden laugh. Then I notice that his other eye is a dark forest green. "You have different colored eyes. It's...different."

"Yes I do, one of the reasons I was put in this dump. Sure, it feeds me and keeps me feeling okay. But I hate being so bored. Another reason is the reason I keep my hood up."

"Take your hood down." I say softly, wondering what this boy could have under his hood that was so bad that he could be sentenced here. For life.

"Fine, but you mustn't laugh. It looks very odd." He takes a deep breath and starts to lower his hood. I gasp at his...well I don't know if that is hair. It looks like hair. But it is purple.

I tentatively walk over, looking closer. "My mother did this to me. They killed her for it. She said she wanted me to be different, to be free. I was like you. I was a brown headed freak. And she changed me. She changed me to even more of a freak. She meant to change it to blonde but it didn't work. It changed me. And it killed her. Governments probably took her here, made her go through this, and killed her that way. Then, as punishment, I was put here. In this place. For something that I couldn't and didn't have control over." His sad face looks at mine. "But you understand what that is like, don't you Smart Girl?"
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How did he know who she was? I wonder...did they tell him before they let her in? Or did he know her before.

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