Alpha Alden ✔️

Chapter Four

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~Kezi

Once I had swallowed the pill with a gulp of the crisp water they offered, they all gather their things to leave.

"Wait, where are you going?" I question.

I'm sitting here, having swallowed a pill with unknown abilities followed by a threat, about to be completely left on my lonesome. Who knows what it will do to me. I don't even know if their intentions are true to their words. I might be allergic to a component of it too. I just want Avia. I wonder if they would even let me contact her.

"Well we have other subjects to administer with their dosages," Sermon says, as her workers – as I assume – file out the door, taking everything they had with them. "We shall leave you in peace."

A moment of panic arises in me. I don't want to be left alone. As much as I don't trust him, it's about the devil I know. If something happens, they may be the only ones to hold any kind of antidote.

"I have nothing to do in here," I note.

"There are books, paper and pens to your left," Sermon mutters, motioning beside me. On a small desk, I notice she is correct. A rather thin book on Wisdom Pack culture, and a few scattered pieces of paper with three different coloured pens. "We an hour of recreation with other subjects later in the afternoon."

There are other people here? How many? I had known there were more travelers, but it is disheartening to know they have been caught also.

"That is, if you react to the drugs how we predict," Sermon says, as heaves the door open.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I question frantically.. "What could happen to me if it reacts badly."

"Have a good day, subject #062."

And with that, she walks out the door, closing it tightly behind her.

I sit back in the chair. It's uncomfortable and hard in all the wrong places. I sigh. This was the fate I have been fearing for a long time. My stomach is empty, and I can almost feel the pill dissolve within me. My fingers quiver nervously for the potential effects of this. They could have administered that to kill me. Who knows what's outside that door.

Sliding off the chair, I wander around the room. There's nothing but an empty bench and a damp bathtub. I notice there's some kind of clip on the tap, keeping it locked.

A small window allows me to see a portion of what is happening outside the one door in this room. There's another door similar to mine directly in front. To my left and right, I spy a long alleyway. The door is locked.

Naturally.

I wonder where Alpha Alden is. I'm assuming in another building somewhere, gloating about his success. He finally caught me. I make a dramatic show of clapping toward a small camera I caught wind of in the corner of the room.

On the bench, I spy a note. Picking it up, I notice it's pertaining to the pill I just took.

Pill A ... Title: Juniper