Traitor Trickster

Human rights are reserved for humans, right? Maybe wearing one's skin isn't enough to merge into the mortal world.
Many of us, variants if you prefer to regard us nicely, otherwise monsters, are born with otherworldly specialties. And those born without it considered us curses to the land while we saw it as superpowers.
They call us monsters yet they're the ones hunting us.
Till it was me they're hunting down, they locked me in a facility with horrific scientists. The other variants are my allies, the facility, our enemy.
The leader of the facility is just another one of us, but he's standing on the opposite side, battling against us.
Everyone can lie, but no one can deceive a psychic.
Standing before him, you can't hide anything. Your thoughts, your schemes, the psychic hears it all.
I, like every other variant locked in this place, dreamed of escaping.
Continuous outrageous breakouts just to get recaptured? I need a disparate way, a more intriguing method to sneak myself out of here.
Kaysen Hayes, leader of the facility, his job is to keep us all contained. Anyone who dares to escape will come to face him, and he never fails to trick us, put us into defeat.
A few variants earned their alliance with the facility, like tamed animals, they'll come to help whenever there's a breakout. When I saw one of those variants, traitorous ideas sprung to my mind.
But I need not wait long till the offer comes to me in person.
How long until he runs out of tricks? How long does loyalty last?
Tricks don't last forever, and so does loyalty.

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