Chapter 2

96 Had woken up once again in the strange basket being carried to the room that he thought of as pain. He didn't remember when it was that the voice had begun to tell him things, explaining to him what things like pain were. The voice only came after the light faded, and even then it was mostly to taunt him for dying so easily. He couldn't bring himself to hate the voice however, since if did provide him with information. the voice had only appeared after the first time he had starved to death, he was surprised when he was able to understand it since all of the other voices sounded like jiberish to him.

After starving he had decided to find a solution to the food problem, the voice had explained as much to him, but at the same time he was still fearful of the many dangers of the room, something that the voice had constantly mocked him about. He looked for a solution for several cycles before he noticed traces of a small animal, so he waited quietly and watched. Eventually a small rodent scurried across the room with a small bag hanging in its mouth. 96 paid close attention to the creatures patterns and slowly crept forward, unfortunately he crawled into the way of the falling flag stone and once again was crushed. "you really should be more careful you know that makes 70 times you've died now, you should really take better care of yourself" it was the voice again 96 merely sighed he had about the first day down to a science but he had been to excited by something new that he had forgotten the dangers of the room.

He needed something that would enable him to speed up the process of dying, since most of the time his deaths were slow and painful, "you could always take one of the weapons from the pain room" he blinked twice, he knew that ment the sharp thing that had been driven into his arm every time he went to the pain room, that would be easy enough since the man in the white coat would take some time for him to take the other basket to its room, and he was always preoccupied, if he was careful he wouldn't need to repeat to much.

No matter how much he tried to keep his cool his eyes would always fill with horror upon seeing the man in the white coat who the voice referred to as George. He thought with slight satisfaction that the man looked uncomfortable as he injected him with the strange blue liquid that made his veins feel like they were on fire and freezing all at the same time. The pain almost made him lose consciousness, and he had several times before, and that had resulted in some unknown deaths, he fought back the urge to drift off and succeed. He waited until 'George' had left, and then he crawled out of the basket reaching for one of the needles, it was sharper than he had expected and he cut his finger and quickly bit down on it to stop the bleeding. The needle was a bit large for him but he planned to fix that later, he quickly crawled back into the basket.

The needle had some residue in it as he later found out. Which gave him ample opportunity to try out an idea that he had gotten after seeing the rodent, food could wait for the time being, if this idea worked he might not have to worry about it.