Friendly Cellmate

I slowly opened my eyes, I could no longer smell that strange odor that made my head feel dizzy and light, the pain was the second thing that returned after the view, a cell, like the ones you can see in a documentary about Alcatraz.

The first thing that came to my head was my reaction to the terrible house of the doctor and everything that followed, it seems like I was really deceived.

It was very dark I couldn't see almost anything that was more than two meters from me, using my arms I dragged myself towards the bars, total darkness, I couldn't see anything in front of them, I was starting to get really anxious until a cracked voice spoke.

"It's us-ele-ss ki-ddo" I turned in the direction of the voice, on the left wall a small window with bars could be seen, there, a kid that seemed to have around twelve years looked at me, his face was horribly disfigured, full of cuts that were accurately sewn closed, the left part of his face seemed to be of another kid, it was loosely attached to his real face, his blood vessels could be seen partly infected, looking closely it seemed to descend every time a little more, his right eye looked non-human it had an unnatural color, a bright yellow, his iris was slit like the one of a snake, it was too big for his eyesocket, I feared it would come out from one moment to another.

His hair were grey, quite long for a kid, they were completely covered by dust and dirt, he had also a couple of canines on the upper part of his mouth, when he opened his mouth to talk his tongue came out, it was as long as my arm and it was split at the end.

I dragged myself toward him, even if he was quite disgusting I still had to get some informations, I got at the base of the window and asked "Hey what do you mean by useless? " he looked at me with pity before answering "It seems you don't know in what kind of hell you ended up, do you know about the recent disappearances of the border villages? That 'Doctor' took you too, isn't that right?".

Hearing the doctor I decided to ask the question that puzzled me more "Do you know who the hell that doctor is?" He looked at me on the ground before sighing "I'm not really sure, none of us are" confused I looked around the dark didn't help, but if I focused I could hear someone breathe the kid talked again "They aren't really talkative, some of them have been here in the dark for years, I've been taken only a couple of months ago and they turned me into this monster" after that he slowly slit on the ground, his back against the wall that divided us.

"So what now?" I asked hoping in an easy answer that could help me escape that hole, he left out a little exhausted laugh "Now we wait, wait for the experiments to start, everything is better than waiting here with the rats, goodnight newcomer, brace yourself for tomorrow" I heard as he walked towards his bed, lying down on it.

I dragged myself toward my bed, it was better than the one in my home, but it was as cold as steel, I laied there looking up, I slowly closed my eyes, I was hungry as hell, but there wasn't any food at all in the room, and I wasn't crazy enough to eat the rats that ran in my cell, at least I met a somewhat friendly cellmate, he didn't gave me all the answers, but at least I have somewhat of a start now.