Lazarus White (Guard – 0329)
the world is a vampire
sent to drain
secret destroyers hold you up to the flames
someone will say What is Lost can never be saved
Lazarus opened his eyes. He lay fully clothed on his bunk, hands webbed together on his chest, and stared into the ceiling. He had been having some trouble sleeping lately, though many victims of the various experiments undergone in these facilities did. Lazarus had usually been a light sleeper, though with the chronic headaches that kept him up longer than he'd intended the night previous, he slept the night through. Another effect of the experimentations was that the subjects often suffered from bad dreams. A side effect of his personal experimentations, though, meant that he didn't. Lazarus White didn't dream of anything any more.
A few moments passed as his good eye adjusted to the light, and then he woke up proper with a start. He was late.
He left the room in a hurry; he wasn't the most experienced guard in the facility by any means, but he at least knew that the general etiquette was not to sleep on the job.
With a familiar ‘ding’, the elevator doors opened up. With mild distaste that he didn't allow to show on his face, Lazarus White slipped past the waiting Lilith Gray before she stepped into the elevator, then past an unknown face holding her cat, and on his way to Cell Block 7.
Lilith certainly wasn't the easiest of personalities to get along with. By hook or by crook, though, neither was Lazarus. No, that wasn't what made him uneasy. Lilith was, in fact, one of the few guardmates that stood as a serious threat to him; her ‘aromatherapy’ as she calls it was not something he could block with a shield, nor was it a psychic power that he would be immune to. Worse still, she had the potential to release it and infect him before he was even aware of what was going on. Worst of all, she seemed the type that was quick to anger, and while he doubted she might release deadly gas on a whim, there seemed little point in trying very hard to find out.
All in all, Lazarus thought as he approached the cell block, good reason to make myself scarce unless completely necessary.
Eyeing the block and all of its visitors before he entered, Lazarus took note of the on-duty scientist, and yet another unfamiliar face – one that, at a glance, seemed even more blind than him.
He availed of the provided seat, then propped his chin up on his knitted-together fingers, elbows on knees. He kept his gaze on ‘Seer’ without knowing her name, and measured her up as a possible threat. She seemed to be peering into 0334's cell, despite her eyes being closed. Telepathically? Lazarus doubted she would even be able to see him, so.
Most thoughts of immediate danger gone from his head, he relaxed a little. He peered into the cell closest to him, and began to doubt that manybody else even realised he was actually late. They seemed to have been getting along just fine without him, in any case.
despite all your rage, you are still just a Rat in a cage