Kidnapping wasn't an uncommon practice in the city, in fact, outside of the few kidnappings that occurred on a whim, most were government sponsored, though the populous were quite unaware of that fact, a secret the government liked and needed to keep to themselves. This occasion, Thia's kidnapping, was one of those occasions.
Overpopulation being a problem as it was no one would question a young fox-eared girl disappearing suddenly. The city was a dangerous place, and the residents knew it. It was unfortunate, but that was life.
Getting up to pace would prove to be a fruitless endeavor at first. Thia would stand only to find that the space available for her strides were severely limited. The room was not a cage, but it was dark, the only light coming from the dim sort of luminescent artificial light streaming in from a tiny skylight hole above. The walls, though dark, were made out easily enough when her eyes would adjust. Smooth, likely white or cream colored. The room had a small bed in the middle but no other furnishings. Curiously, in every corner of the room there was a tall steel pole running from floor to ceiling that looked as if it had been concreted into the ground, its use was unclear.
She was left alone in relative silence for the time being, no light, no sound, no single sign of life anywhere to be found.
******
"She woke"
The voice was raspy, it came from a man sitting at a large terminal. He was a wearing a bright white lab coat, sported a cigarette in his left hand and had a long streak of grey through his hair. He was human, but there was something odd about him, he was older, probably around 50 years of age, but dark and mischievous eyes confounded the observer as to his true age. He had a much more youthful appearance in his eyes than his body appeared. Aside from youth there was a hint of something else, a glint of perhaps a bit of madness in his eyes that permeated out from his very soul.
But as he spoke the room reacted. A team of men and women behind him stood up and come near to look at the camera screens to view their newest subject, #3.
She had been allowed to keep her clothing and looked as if she had just been picked up off the street the night before. However, the drugs had just let up...in reality she had been out for five days, having a multitude of tests ran on her in order to check her compatibility for experimentation.
She was a fine subject, as far as they are concerned.
"When do we begin?" Came the voice of a female, the man's assistant, she had a bit of hesitation in her voice, and a bit of excitement.
"Soon....we watch first, let us see how she reacts."
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