Lost Inconsistencies

Part 13

Darkness is the most terrifying when you don't know if you will get the chance to see the light once more.

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Lost Inconsistency Project / Enter Day 174:

Test subject C no longer sleeps in a normal human rhythm. He sleeps for a couple of hours here and there, likely never getting to the stages of deep sleep. There is no schedule for him except the sporadic one from the strength of the injection. We have also noticed that test subject C can tell when attacks are approaching. We are still unsure of how this occurs.

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I know that you probably guessed that I lived through this. I mean, giving the fact that I'm writing this, I think you could've safely bet that I would've lived back at the beginning of this story.

I made it out of the darkness, once again wondering what day it was. At that point, I could've been unconscious for years and completely believed it when someone told me.

I was sure of only two things. I was alive. And I was not where I once was.

I was back in Kade's lab.

Kade walked dramatically up to me, preparing to give me another injection. He was talking, but I was no longer listening. Or hearing anything for that matter.

This is how weird reality can be. It can be more simple than a dramatic fight scene or a full out staff rebellion. Life itself is much more simple than that.

Using the limited energy that I had left, I reached out and picked up a needle off of the work table next to the chair I was sitting in.

I stabbed him, right in the sweet spot in his neck where Calypso had trained me to. I blurrily watched Kade fall into a lump on the floor. I didn't feel anything. I felt no regret or remorse. He was no longer my family when he erased my mind all that time ago.

I began to nod off again, but not before I heard a distant scream.

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And then I woke up in another new place. Not that I cared. Waking up at all was a luxury. I was in a bed. A very comfortable bed.

Except I was in so much pain. My body was trying to tear me apart.

I screamed for a while.

Then I heard that distant scream again, even though I knew that I was far away from the testing rooms of the facility. And, strangely enough, I recognized the scream. I knew it was Calypso. They had injected her again.

I had no idea when this happened or why it happened, but I knew that it had.

She was in pain, and at that moment, I realized that the worst pain you will ever experience is not yours, but the helpless feeling you get when someone you love is in pain that you can't take away. The pain that is drawn from another's agony that you wish you could tackle for them.

I felt that pain much harder than any pain I'd ever felt.

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So, I woke up again. For the billionth time written down in this book. I saw a lady enter my blurry vision. She looked very kind. She didn't ask me to listen to what she had to say and she didn't say any form of hello. She said, "I'm your aunt. I was married to Kade."

I didn't do anything. I just sort of watched her. I wanted to tell her that I was sorry for killing her husband, but that wasn't true, so I said nothing at all. She continued on talking.

"I want to say thank you, Owen, for everything that you've done. You and your friend saved the world. I tried so many times to stop your uncle, but there was nothing I could say to stop him. You finally stopped him. Thank you."

She smiled slightly.

I could tell that she was sad about her husband, but she was also happy for the end of the war as most of the world would be. And the later was definitely the greater feeling.

As for me, I was confused. I was the nephew of the most evil person and most kind person in the universe. And they were married.

Not sure how that happened.

I tried thanking my aunt for her kind words. After all, she could've yelled at me or let me die for killing her husband. But I couldn't.

I opened my mouth, and silence came out.

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Lost Inconsistency Project / Enter Day 95:

Test subject A is taking the injection process very well. Her mental reaction to the pain seems to be different from test subject C's reaction. She tries to fight more often, looking much more hopeful than him. Both A and C are progressing as they should be.