Curse Carrier Book 1 Of The Curse Carriers Series

Chapter 44: Rehabilitation

Utau POV

It was three weeks before Utau was able to find out where Kami had been taken. She had heard of the failed attempt at Kiri collecting his curse but then he had vanished. Shin had just recently found out where he was when Curse told him. According to him even she had a hard time of it.

"He is being kept in an isolation cell on floor four. It is on the same end as the experimentation rooms." He tells her.

"So how is he doing?" Utau asks.

Shin shakes his head, "Not well. He is not eating or responding to external stimuli at all except to scream at it. If anyone tries to forcefully interact with him he begins to panic." He explains.

"Do they know what's triggering the panic attacks?" Utau asks.

"It could just be a reaction to being touched. But his reaction is more violent for some people than others. He will not talk so they cannot ask him what he is thinking." He answers.

"Maybe seeing familiar faces like you or Curse will make him feel better. Do you know when they'll let him have visitors?" Utau says.

"He is not allowed to have visitors. Especially not me or Curse. You can ask but you will most likely be turned away." He tells her.

"I still want to try." She says. After class she heads for floor four. There she gets directions from a passing nurse and heads for the far end of the hall. It begins to feel harder to breathe as she recalls the last time she was here. She remembers Kami's earth shattering scream of torment. She had felt to helpless and guilty. She had promised she would get Kami out of there and she had not only failed but made it far worse. The guilt will probably never stop gnawing at her.

She stops in front of a numbered door. It's locked with a pin pad lock. A few doors down she sees one of Samael's hired goons taking a smoke break near a ventilation shaft. She walks up to him and he gives her an annoyed look. "Can you tell me the pin to get in room 846?" She asks him.

He glances at the door she indicated. "Fraid not. Orders directly from the top. No one goes in or out without level A clearance or higher." He drawls with an accent that sounds familiar but Utau doesn't know where from.

"I'm Utau. The Curse Carrier commander." She tells him.

"You only have level C clearance. Can't let you in." He sounds bored with her and goes back to puffing on his cigarette.

Utau begins to feel annoyed. "I have permission from Samael's daughter to see the person being kept in room 846." She lies.

The man looks back at her skeptically. "You got proof?"

"I don't. But if you really need it I can go and get a signed note. That will just make her irritated though and she will complain to Samael about his men not being trained properly. That will just get you in trouble in the long run." She bluffs. It seems to work as the man looks worried and thoughtful.

"Alright but only for five minutes." He agrees and walks up to the door. He has Utau stand back so he can punch in the key pad numbers without Utau seeing. With her sharp Curse Carrier sight though she easily sees he hits the numbers 7484748329. She quietly recites the numbers over and over to memorize them. The doors pops open and he stands aside. Utau walks past him like she has every right to be there.

The white room is smaller than a dorm room. There's a bed and a toilet but nothing else. Kami isn't on the bed but crouched against the wall in a spot he can't be seen from the door. When Utau looks up against the wall looking down on the room is a black spherical security camera. Kami doesn't move as she walks slowly up to him. She kneels down cautiously so she doesn't spook him. He's looking straight ahead and she's in his field of vision but that doesn't mean he's aware she's there.