Hallodean Assassins

Her World

Colors, they were absent. A life filled with endless sound, smell, texture, tastes but never light, never color. My ears teemed with all the sounds from every nook and cranny in the vicinity, I felt the vibrations of the floor and the walls. But color, it evaded me.

I could never understand the concept. I had been born in this state. Chenin had tried to describe seeing and hue to me when we were younger.

"It's like you close your eyes and then you open them." he made wild vibrant expressions with his hands.

"And then you just... see something other than black." he sounded confused.

"But I open my eyes and I don't see" I had tried to rub sight into them for the umpteenth time in my life.

My mother who had been watching us while we sat on the living room floor, laughed at my action.

We all did.

Black I have always understood black. They always said it was the color I was always "seeing". A vague nothingness my brain created to replace what it could not perceive.

But they are wrong about one thing, sighted people. My life of "Einengrau" was not as monotonous as they thought it to be. There are times when my world is punctuated by brief splashes of....

Brief splashes.

Just random occurrences of some thing other than darkness but I guess you wouldn't understand. You are reading this.

She was talking to me.

"My name is Ms. Carey and I am the orderly for your dorm." I heard the woman say as she dragged me towards what I assumed was the dorm she spoke of.

"How many other girls are in the dorm?" I asked as politely as I could.

"There are four other young ladies there, who are just like you" she remarked in a much lighter tone and her vice grip had softened remarkably but I didn't mention it.

"What do you mean just like me?" we had started to go up a winding spiral winding staircase.

"Well it seems we will just have to see, huh?" Ms. Carey remarked, I found myself smiling.

We came to a stop at the top of the step.

"Here we are." she said.

She took a hold of my right hand and brought it up to touch a doorknob. I felt it slowly get warmer them back to its former temperature, the process took about five seconds. I heard a click and then the door swung open.

I stepped in before Ms. Carey and did what I did best, I listened.

All four girls were sitting on a bed in the corner of the room, speaking in hushed tones. they all spun around suddenly when the door opened.

They were too soft, the sounds were not reflecting off them as they would from a solid objects. They were wearing casual clothing.

All the girls had stopped talking now and were now staring intently on me. It's just a thing you feel.

Ms. Carey stepped in and locked the door behind her which closed with an audible click. She came and stood beside me.

"Tetra, Arias, Cedile, Garcia, this is the new addition to your little family, Moira Hallodean." she heard very clearly as the girl farthest from her released a gasp and quickly covered it.

She had made the sound at the mention of Moira's name.

"Moira is visually impaired and has a twin brother in Dorm Epsilon, there's more but I think she would like to speak for herself, I'll leave you to it." she nudged me gently in the back. She opened the door and stepped out.

She heard the click of the door closing.

One of the girls quickly sprang from the bed and raced towards me. For a second I considered crossing her in the face in self-defense. But decided against it.

She grasped my arm and started to lead me towards the bed that the other girls sat on.

"My name is Garcia Hyatt and am the perfect person to kick start your enrollment at MetaGear."

"Meet the girls." she softly suggested. I heard the pent up excitement in three girls. The fourth was feeling fear.

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