The Days I Spent In The Woods

prologue

Silence. It's all that surrounds me, it's all that I am. A cool metal slate is all that supports me, encircled by a ring of cold, harsh rods that seem to shoot up around me. I am caged. I am nothing. I am prey. Weak from the endless torture I endure day by day. I make a small attempt to sit up in my enclosure, but to no avail. Collapsed on the smooth floor. I lie in wait. For them to come.

As I lay there, voices come from the distance.

"Have you heard the deal about subject 32948?" That's me, the caretakers are here.

"No, why? What's going on with it?"

"Oh, they are just gonna ship her off to another lab in Russia. They want to use her for the war." Its a chance, a chance to escape this hell and a chance to be free, a chance to start over and have my own freedom! I snap back to reality as the door slowly creeps open.

"Hey Bernadette, it's time for your medicine" Medicine. A gentler term to call my poison. The taller one starts to approach my cage with a needle long enough to scare anyone to death. But for me it's just a daily dose of toxins to shut my body down. The short handler stares at the needle, eyes widen in shock.

"Oh god, what is that stuff?" The tall man just laughs as he opens my cage door.

"Your still way too inexperienced with this one man."

"Yeah but anyone would know that this stuff is made for killing." Now it was the other man's turn to be in shocked.

"Haven't you read any of your paperwork on subject 32948? She's immortal you idiot. This stuff is just what we use as a sedative for her." Immortal. A word that gets thrown around me often. The newcomers are always in shock of the fact that something so extraordinary could even exist on the planet, in an earthly form. A real four winged angel.

I snap my eyes over to see my door open. Its time.