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The fog envelopes you. It cuts you off from your partner. It whispers things to you, and while you can't hear what it being said, you know it's talking about you. The darkness is whispering your every secret, and murmuring your deepest fears right into your ear.

Suddenly, the fog parts, and you are inches from the wall. You catch the faint scent of copper, and then you notice the words just above your line of vision, in dark, dripping red:

FREEDOM

There is an arrow, and you follow it until you're on your knees in front of the wall, looking at a space on the wall that is darker than the rest. You realize, perhaps a little belatedly, that it's a missing brick.

[ ROOM B6 ]

The room lit up again, blindingly so. He squinted his red eyes, lifted a clawed hand to shield his face and then....

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He stood at the side of the bed with a clipboard, eyes skimming over the words, when suddenly the door slammed open. He turned, a smile already on his lips, though it was one that did not reach his eyes in the slightest.

"Ah, Gregory! So glad you are joining me." He moved to the side, allowing room for the two figures to move Mathias's brother to the bed, strapping him down tight as the other wolpertinger struggled against his restraints and screamed at them to stop.

The door closed as the two who had brought Mathias's brother vacated, the latch making a satisfying click that meant that he was now all alone in the room.

With Gregory.

Mathias moved up to the side of the bed and continued to smile as he looked down at his brother, who had stopped his struggles, who was now trembling just slightly, though was also leveling Mathias with a cold glare.

"Am so happy to be seeing you again, Gregory. Are happy to see me?" He reached down, his thumb brushing against one of those balefully glaring eyes, forcing it closed, pushing down on it, adding pressure slowly as though he never meant to stop.

"Ffft, am guessing not!" He suddenly released him, taking a step back as his smile slipped away, and he watched the other wolpertinger with a steady gaze.

"Hope not minding that I lied to be getting you here. Is not like you have not lied to me. But you are remembering that, are you not, Gregory? How you told me all vould be okay. You had overheard that I father vould be removing me from pack soon, and you told me. You told me you had plan. You told me you did not vant me to go." He let his hand slide down until it settled around his brothers neck, squeezing, his claws digging into the side of his brother's throat.

"Plan vas for us to fight, for me to be vinning, and for parents to see that I vas strong enough. Could stay, could grow, could become stronger given time. Vas all I needed, just time." He was squeezing harder now, and he realized that his brother was turning a little bit blue in the face, his eyes bulging just slightly, and so he released him again.

And that was when the protests began. The apologies, and the excuses for why. Why he had done it. He'd had no choice.

"No choice. Nah. Of course that is case. Instead of plan, vhen it vas time for me to land final blow, you attacked me, and vhen I vas down, vith your teeth at mein neck, then the rest vere allowed to join in. Brothers and sisters all attacking, but it vas you who made it so. You who's laughter I could be hearing vhen all over, and a vas left on ground, unconscious, bleeding, near dissipation but not quite. Vas left, and vhen awakening, pack vas gone."

He let out a sigh then, a claw trailing down along his brothers bare chest, digging in harder, digging deep, drawing blood.

He smiled again, and smiled more when he did it again, and again, leaving bloody patterns across his brothers skin, marring that perfection, that body that was so much bigger then Mathais's, so much stronger, so much more.

And the more his brother pleaded for him to stop, the more he enjoyed every moment of it.

All too soon, however, the time was up. Turning his back on his brother, he hung the clipboard back on the wall.

"Be seeing you soon, Gregory. Hope are enjoying stay." He said, one last cold smile directed behind him towards the bed before he headed towards the door, opened it, and headed back out into the hallway.

"There are a lot of options here, it's up to what you like best." The Fracs said after a moment of consideration. "There's an equipment room upstairs with all sort of weapons, if you don't want to use your bare hands." It mused, then, after tilting its head, continued: "There's also something that might help you in room one-oh-one, inside a ripped chair ~ You don't have to be strong, you just have to be smart, and I know you can be, when you try." It turned and crawled carefully on top of Amphi's prone body, laying down on top of her stomach wound, legs curled underneath it.

"I'll watch over her while you're gone."

There was something there at his fingertips, the trembling reach brushing against something, a snort, and he could feel wet against his finger tips.

A low growl was the only warning before the penetrating SHRIEK and the terrible bite, just a warning, he knew that somehow but it did damage a plenty.

He felt dizzy and sick from the pain. He pulled his hand back, clutching the bloodied mess to his chest and feeling the tears falling from his eyes. He was a coward, he crumbled at the pain and he lost what dignity he had to that pain…
Shaking he turned back, retreating from the sound of snuffling for fear, fear that it had only been a trap and that he had accomplished nothing for his troubles.

[HP 10/30]
Invantory B2 key, B5 key.

I…I'm here… I'm here… there was a… there was a loose brick, i…it said freedom but." He swayed on his feet, glancing at you and holding out the mauled hand.

"But there was something there too… I… It bit me, I…. I have to get out of this room I'm sorry."

[ ROOM B5 ]

He had no idea what had just happened, only that Pachua was back and bloody and insisting they leave. Frankly, he was fine with that.

"Yes, let's go. I have some bandaids... somewhere." He started back toward the door. "We can see how bad your injuries are more easily in the hall."

"I'll be here~" It promised, maintaining its guard over Amphi as Llyr stood to leave. "Good Luck~!"

[ HALLWAY ]




He took the bandaids gratefully, applying them with shaky hands to the injuries where he could, it was hard to make them stick so he only managed to stick one or two of them to the injuries.

"i'm sorry…I'm sorry, I hoped to find something useful… now I'll just…. I'd just…" he shook his head. "I can't let teddy see me like this." He said desperately. "Or Llyr… their already, they aren't taking this well, I can't."