Marielle_Paxley
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- Parts 3
I opened my eyes for the first time in a place I didn't recognize.
The only thing that greeted me was the harsh white light pouring from a lamp on the ceiling, burning against my eyes. Everything around me was unfamiliar-cold metal walls cables hanging from above and experimental capsules filled with cloudy liquid. The sharp chill in the air brushed against my bare skin, sending shivers through my body. As the mechanical hum of machines echoed throughout the room all I could do was stare blankly at my surroundings.
I felt lost
Yet at the same time I was so empty that I couldn't even fully understand what it meant to be lost.
What was the sky?
When I saw it for the first time I couldn't make sense of it. It looked like an endless expanse stretching beyond imagination. Deep, silent and bottomless. Like an unknown abyss capable of swallowing anyone who gazed into it for too long.
Trees birds cats dogs and humans.
They all lived in the same world breathing the same air and carrying on with their lives. They laughed cried feared loved.
They lived. What about us?
Could my brother and I ever become a part of this world? Could we live in a safe home sit around a warm table and sleep without fear? A life filled with love.
Who wouldn't want that?
"Will we ever be like them, brother?" I once asked quietly "They won't separate us from each other, right?" Because sometimes, even hope can be painful.
After all we were the ones considered failures from the very beginning...
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Marissa and Chuuya are two siblings who were born and raised inside a laboratory. They were never treated like human beings; they were seen as nothing more than experimental subjects. Freedom, family, and a normal life were merely meaningless words they had only heard from afar.
Refusing to let others decide their fate, they shatter their chains one night and escape. Leaving behind the only world they have ever known-the laboratory-they step into the unknown, determined to claim their own future.