XXV - The Breeding II

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*trigger warning:

+ confinement + forced medication +

*the full warning and list of triggers to be found in part 2

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The monsters had come back four days later and had injected them once again. Once again Nathalie had squeezed the liquid out of herself with all her force and against all the pain. By now she had gotten to know some of the other girls and young women in the boxes around her. There was Kathrine on her right and Helen to her left. Beside Helen was Amanda but she was rather quiet. To Kathrine's other side there was a young girl by the name of Emma. On the other side of the food table a girl called Louise was tethered right opposite Nathalie and to her left there were Emely and Larissa, to her right Samira, Sam for short, and Mary.

Louise was sure that the key to remain sane was to keep talking and thus she had formed an alliance between the girls and women closest to her. By now they were a tight-knit group. They watched out for each-other. At any given point two of them, one on either side of the table, would stay awake and be on the lookout for the monsters. They couldn't do anything to prevent the monsters from doing whatever they wanted to do to them but it was much better to be awake when they came and not to awake when they were manhandling you already. They would talk for hours at a time, telling each other stories from their previous life, or making up tales to keep each other entertained. They started teaching each other the languages they were fluid in to keep their companions from sinking down into depression and to keep each other clean as much as possible. They had figured out that once a day some device came along and take away the faeces. It was also the only real possibility to measure the passage of time since nothing ever changed, not even the lights.

The monsters came back regularly and inspected their bodies. At some point it seemed to Nathalie that they had figured out that she squeezed out the liquid she was injected with as soon as they were gone. They injected her with a larger amount of fluid and set it deeper under her skin. She could not squeeze it out again.

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