Elyse shouts something at me, her voice reaching my ears a moment too late. The Warden slams his stun gun into the side of my neck and pulls the trigger. The volts course through my body and every muscle fights them.
My body spasms. I know it only take a few seconds for me to fall to the floor, but it feels like I fall for hours. The Warden is kicking me. He kicks me in the sides and the legs. Gets a good one to my chest that knocks the wind out of me. I don't know why he stops, if someone told him to or what. The only things I can hear are the heavy sound of my heart pumping blood through my body and the whooshing sound it makes as it moves through my veins.
The sound clears just in time for me to hear Elyse screaming like they're killing her. My heart pounds. My whole body is limp. I can't move any of my limbs. There's nothing I can do for her now. I've failed.
The door behind me opens up and Rhys stands over me, frowning. He reaches down and shoves his hands under my arms. I'm pulled through the doorway, my boots knocking against the wall when he turns too soon. The hallway is silent. My vision blurs as I'm pulled back towards my room. I lose consciousness before we even make it down the first hallway.
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General FictionI have been Numb my entire life... Elyse has lived in the Compound, a facility that houses children deemed Numb, almost her entire life and it's been mostly uneventful. But lately something is starting to cause her peers to become unstable, violent...
