What May Seem

10/13/22

When I decided to start recording my thoughts about everything, I had no idea it would be this nerve wracking! Of course, if I want to maintain the fragile sliver of sanity I have left...if I want to keep from slipping through the cracks and crevices of the elaborate framework that is my mind there is no other option. We are sworn to secrecy over our project so there is no telling what The Company will do if they do find my journal.

They prepared us for this project before they even told us what it we were undertaking. Week after week, test after test but I can tell you it still didn't prepare me for the day I entered the lab of The Company. The very first time I set eyes on the darkness that The Company had found.

He sat in a glass box, kind of like a display case and cell all wrapped into one. His hands were bound and he faced the ground and never looked up. The creatures appearance most definitely was a sight to behold though. Ebony skin that seemed more like shadows in your darkest dream than an epidermal covering brought ones attention directly onto him. Later, during my experiments, I would be able to observe his face which was bisected into a top and bottom half. The top was closest to human though narrow and a bit skeletal in quality. They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul but after looking into the eyes of this being, I'd have to say that those very eyes had a soul of their own. Doe like innocence mixed with the look of an old soul who has seen many die before him shown in those mysterious orbs. Where human pupils are found, dark indigo spashes that moved and swirled were a captivating sight. Nothing has filled my veins with more icy dread than those eyes. The bottom half of his face was smooth and bony, adding to the serpent expression set off by the slits of his nostrils. Tall, dark, and slender the creature instilled fear in me not quelled a bit by the fact that I still didn't know what it was capable of. Terror unbeknownst to my curious scientific mind has been awakened. I desperately wish that the primal animal that it is would stop tearing at my being.