[Sl'askia]

Chapter 2

It had been a few weeks since I had first heard about ‘the first’ and I still haven’t been able to figure out who it was. But right now there seemed to be something else going on. Lately the sligs have been talking adamantly about an experiment the masters were going to perform. This news of course had all of us worried. We didn’t know what they had planned. Then one day a pair of sligs came in, one of them holding a strange metal stick. It wasn’t a shock stick, for it was open on one end and seemed hollow. I could feel the tension in the room, we weren’t sure what was going to happen.
“Which ones did they want?” one of the sligs asked.
“Um…” the other slig flipped a page on his clipboard, “Beta and Delta”
I jerked my head up when I heard my name, and backed into a corner, frightened.
“Alright then.” The slig with the stick said as he raised it and pointed it at me. I whined in fright, unable to run or hide. The stick suddenly made a loud noise and a felt a sharp pain in my arm. I looked and saw what I recognized as a dart sticking out of my arm. I suddenly felt very tired and laid down. I looked up as they did the same with Delta, who howled angrily at them. I saw no more after that….

Sometime later, I was awakened by someone nudging me gently. I opened my eyes and saw to my surprise Delta standing over me, smiling.
“Looks like I woke up before you for once.” He chuckled and he helped me stand up.
“Where are we?” I asked. We were in some sort of large room, there were no windows and only one door, which obviously only opened from the outside due to a lack of a doorknob. The floor was lined with some sort of soft material, a pleasant change from the cold hard metal floor of our cells.
“Beats me…but does it matter? We are finally together…no bars separating us.” He said as he embraced me. I stiffened a moment, still unsure.
“Perhaps now,” I said, “but for how long?”
“Don’t know, so let’s make the most of it shall we?” he said as he kissed me. I melted into his arms, enjoying it. I knew he was right…we had to make the most out of whatever time we had. And I wasn’t about to deny him anything…