Project XZ3

Chapter 5

Room 93. Who knows what this room will bring. I grab the wheel and lock it off. Nothing. No smoke, no smell no nothing. So far so good. I peer in the room. Sitting in the far corner of the room is a girl. She has long black straight hair just reaching the floor, she is wearing black rags. But the thing that is the most disturbing is her eyes. There are no eyelids and the eyes are just black. I cannot help but stare.

"Hello" she says quietly.

"Hello" I say gobsmacked.

"It took you a while to come down here"

"Yeah... it did" how could she have known that? "How...."

"I can see through walls. I can see everything around me"

"That's good"

"There aren't very many alive people here, I keep checking around me"

"Oh... okay... erm... do you want to... leave now?"

"Yes" she gets up and walks over to me, as if she knew where is walking. "To save time... I can tell you that there are three alive people here, and none of them can move very far"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean to say... that they don't have any legs"

"Right... but... I'm still saving them; Polly is still able to move"

"That's fine" a slightly awkward silence...

"If you could lead the way"

"Yes" and she walks ahead. I look at the others, I follow the.... somewhat blind girl and the others follow me. We walk down the corridor, and stop at a door on the right. Room 80.

"What is your name?" I ask. Which is the only thing that comes into my mind.

"I don't have a name" she says.

"What about.... Beth?" again, the first name that comes into my head.

"I like that name"

"Good" I turn to the... limbless man on Polly's back. "What about you?"

"I don't have a name either" he says.

"Oh... what about Ben?"

"I like that"

"Good" I look back at the door. I am now with, Beth, Ben, Polly and Billy. We are a very interesting group of people. I grab the wheel of the door and lock it off. I know that I am expecting a limbless person. I pull the door open and look in. On the floor at the back of the room is a limbless person in a black rag. Its head looks so normal, with a pretty face, it is a woman's face. She has short blonde hair and has arms, arms with bulging muscles. For some reason, I am not at all shocked by this. I put my head down and shed a tear, I feel so sorry for these people. Beth walks in.

"Hello, we're not going to hurt you" Beth says and kneels down at her. She looks at Beth, and then at the others behind me. "There are others here like you, don't be afraid" she smiles and Beth and shuffles forward a bit. "That's right, come and join us, we're going to get out of this place"

"I'd like that" she smiles at Beth again.

"What's your name?"

"I don't know" so many angry thoughts in my head. Why are these people like this? Who has done this to us? Why are we here? This is just... so wrong.

"What about... Emily?"

"I like that name"

"It's a pretty name, like you are"

"Thank you"

"Come on then, we'll have to move" I let the others out, and shut the door behind us. I follow Beth down the corridor, and we reach door number 65.