because when I first started posting this, i was kind of stuck on the other fic i was writing 'Shriek'. I started posting this one so the readers would have something to read while I worked on the other one. Plus some readers don't like extremely long posts as it is a strain on their eyes.
Anyway...here is the next chap. Only one more after this one.
Chapter 6
I have never felt so alone…all I did was just laid there in my cell, depressed. Delta wouldn’t even look at me anymore, which made me feel even worse. The master thought I was sick or something and had taken me in for several examinations, though each time they found nothing physically wrong with me. I was so depressed that they didn’t even need to sedate me when they came to examine me. I only vaguely remember all the hallways and doors they took me through during those times. They finally placed me in a separate cell in a room away from the others, so they could keep an eye on me. It was several days before I even bothered to really look around at my new surroundings.
I was in a decent sized cell, there were regular walls on three sides and the door was the familiar cell bars. The floor had a soft lining on it, similar to the lining of the room me and Delta were in one time. I looked out and a saw an examination table in the middle of the room beyond my cell. There were a series of odd-looking pictures on the walls. My view was suddenly blocked when one of the masters came in front of my cell.
“Well missy, we don’t know why you are acting this way.” The master said as he opened the door to my cell, “Come on out, lets have another look at you.”
I was hesitant at first, but stepped out. This was the first time they had ever let me or anyone else come out of our cells under our own power. I was a little weary as I walked around the room, looking around. The master let me, he was watching me the whole time. They never let us have this kind of freedom before, and it worried me somewhat. I came across a series of pictures on one of the walls, ones I couldn’t see before. They were of us, all of us. Some were of us as hatchlings, others as adults. There were a couple of hatchling pictures that I didn’t recognize at first…until I realized this hatchling had yellow eyes. It was of Spider when he was a hatchling. I stared at it a moment, then looked at more of the others. I saw a couple more of Spider, this time when he was full-grown. Again I lingered next to those before I moved on. At the end was a couple of pictures of Delta. I whined and couldn’t the tears from coming. Oh how I now wished I had never ever heard of Spider. It hurt so much the Delta no longer cared for me.
“Pity…” I heard the master say, “It would appear that you have achieved an amount of knowledge and emotion, something we can not permit.”
I looked up at the master, suddenly frightened. The master turned to a nearby slig and told him something I couldn’t hear. The slig nodded and disappeared a moment, when he returned he had one of those strange sticks. I whaled in fright backing away.
“Just be still, this is fer yer own good.” The slig said as he pointed it at me. I panicked and bolted, heading for the doors. I heard a loud noise…and felt a sharp pain in my arm….
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