Chapter 3

"Hello there, and welcome the CHW."

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The young girl looked up at the woman above her. She had light blond hair with a streak of gray through it. She was about the height of the child's mother, maybe a few inches shorter. The woman's hand was in her pocket while the other was stretched out to the child.

The young child was confused at the gesture, and just continued to stare at the emotionless woman. They stared at each other for what felt like forever. The woman blinked.

The woman crouched down to the child's height, and asked for her name.

This time it was the kid who blinked.

"Do you even speak english...? *sigh* I suppose it doesn't really matter anyways." The woman scratched her head then grabbed the kids hand.

She dragged her to the door. It was a heavy metal steel one, multiple security cameras could be seen surrounding it.

The woman placed her hand on a dark blue scanner. Beep. After she removed her hand multiple clicks could be heard behind the door. It slowly creaked open to reveal a long hallway. Another person was behind the door.

A person completely clad in black. She couldn't even see the person's face. The woman and the mysterious person exchanged a few words before the woman grabbed onto the girls hand again, leading down the long hallway.

After walking for a few minutes the girl begun getting lost in the maze of twists and turns that the 2 took. She was pretty sure that they went down a flight of stairs once as well.

The woman kept muttering under her breathe, and sent swift glances to the kid who was waking along side her. They had been walking for a while, and it felt as though they were no longer above ground.

Few minutes later~

They had finally stopped in front a a door. There was a keypad on the right side of the door and the woman quickly punched in the number and opened the door.

There were multiple others in the room. Ages ranging from 4-15, and all genders were present. The woman pushed the 6 year old girl in the room.

The room had multiple bunks on either side of the room. Multiple children were laying on the beds. There were no windows, and there was only other door on the other side of the room, across for the doorway the girl had just been standing in.

"Stay." The woman commanded, then turned to the other children. "This one's number 53. Make sure to show her to her bunk." After that she turned around and exited the room. As the door shut a click could be heard, showing that the door was once again locked.

The children stared at each other for a good while before one of them finally came up to the newcomer.

"Hey, my name's 37. You're 53 right?" The boy in front of the girl had almost white hair, and dark brown eyes. He seemed about a year older than the young girl, however they were the same height.

No response.

"Not much of a talker huh? Ok let me show you to your bunk." The boy began walking towards a lower bunk on the far right of the room.

He turned around to see that the girl had not moved an inch, and was still standing in the place she had been in before.

"Omg, c'mon!" The boy gestured for her to come that way. The girl understood the gesture, as it had been common at home when her mother called for her.

She began walking over. As she walked she took more time to observe her surroundings. There were 15 sets of bunk beds on each side of the room, leaving a total of 60 beds in there. The door at the end of the room did not have a padlock on it, making it rather confusing as too what was behind there. All of the other children in the room had the white gown on, that went just past their knees.

The girl slowly approached the boy who was towards the end of the room, by the unlocked door. The boy who called himself "37" pointed at her bed and said,

"That one is yours, take the clothes on it and go to through that door." He jabbed his finger at the unlocked door behind him.

More staring.

"Ughh, fine whatever." 37 groaned and picked up the clothes shoving them into her arms. He then continued to push her to the door and pushed her inside.

"Change into that." He stated before turning away, leaving the girl completely alone.

The girl sat in the room for a minute or two before she finally understood what she was supposed to be doing. She picked up the white clothes and began to change. The clothes felt strange on her body. The gown was light and very clean, opposed to the dirty, heavy heavy rags she was wearing before.

After getting changed she took a moment to observe her surroundings. The walls were the same as the walls in the other room, a greyish white. There were sinks lining the wall on the right, and stalls lining the left.

The girl took to a second to go and investigate the stalls. She walked over to the closest stall and peered inside. The white porcelain seat reminded her slightly of the chairs back home.

She ducked her head out of the stall and went back to the door. She pushed it open and walked back into the room with the bunks. The kids in there were laying on the beds, a few were talking to each other, but it was mostly quiet.

The door at the front of the room clicked again. All of the children's heads turned in that direction, as the woman from before entered the room.

"53, come out with me." The woman commanded, looking directly at the young girl.

'... 53?' the young child thought.

However the girl understood it was directed to her, and approached the woman. Again her wrist was grabbed, and she was getting rather tired of that tight feeling snaking around her wrists.

Again outside of the room, through what felt like thousands of turns. The girl who was now known as '53' was being pretty much dragged along through all of this madness. The girl tried to keep track of where they were going that to her that felt pretty much impossible.

Another long walk later~

Finally they reached their destination... another locked door. Once again the woman put her hand up to the scanner on the right side of the door. It beeped and then slowly slid open to reveal a white room.

The was a bed looking thing on one side and counters on another. There was a hand washing station and lots of equipment present. Again, no windows could be seen, and the only door in there was the one that the two had just entered through.

"#53, welcome to the lab."