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The boy turned over and looked at Luda upside-down. "Am I? I don't know. You made me! Why am I here, Luda?"

He lifted the doll to his ear.

"Dolly says I'm your innocence, whatever that means," He giggled. "She's your smarts and I'm your innocence and you're the rest of you!"

Luda closed his eyes again.

"Thank God." He sighed. "The last one said it was because I was lonely...what an idiot."

"Now you have me and Dooollllly~!" Glace cheered, rolling around and around above him. "Yaaaay!"

He rolled around above Luda for a little while, before finally stopping and leaning in close, hovering only inches above the other.

"Why don't you like your brother, Luda?"

"Why do you care?" Luda replied. "I don't, so you shouldn't...right?"

"Dolly says I am curious because you're secretly curious," Glace informed, pushing the doll into Luda's face. "I want to know why you don't care because you want to know why you do care!"

"I don't." Luda replied before he rolled over on his side and covered his head with his pillow.

There was a long moment of silence before he sighed and took the pillow off his head again- looking up at the boy above him.

"What do I call you?" He asked.

"Dolly says my name is Glace," Glace informed. "I wonder why my name is Glace!"

He twirled off the bed and moved to the floor, sitting cross-legged, though still hovering about an inch off of it.

"Because I...I don't know why I named you that." Luda sighed. "Your name has no known significance to me."

"Dolly says she thought it sounded pretty," Glace giggled.

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Kayen had fallen asleep on the bed in Domino's arms after some serious coaxing. It was the firs time in a while he'd gotten actual sleep, not collar-induced unconsciousness.

And so it was rough to be awoken by guards storming into the room upon finding out he was not in his own. The machines latched on to his arms and pulled him from the bed, starting to drag him away.

"Let go of me!" He shrieked in a panic, kicking wildly and trying to pull with his arms. "Let go, let go, let go!"

He squeezed his eyes tight, shoving out with his mind, willing everything to just stop. Domino felt the pulse of energy pass through him and heard the display next to his bed crack.

The bots fell down, completely fried. The electrical system to the door fried as well and one by one they could hear the doors of the nearby rooms flying open.

"...Kayen what have you done?" Domino stared out as he saw several of the rooms across the hall slid open.

Kids started stepping out into the hall cautiously- looking around. It seemed like anything electronic in the whole corridor had been roasted in Kayen's frantic struggling. Domino hurried off his bed and helped the Albinic boy up- holding him close...protectively, as he looked around.

"Oy!" Chess cheered and hurried over. "Open door special- first come, first served. If we hurry up, we can bust outta here."

"Leave?" Domino frowned at his twin brother. "Are you insane? Don't answer that."

"I didn't mean to..." Kayen breathed, rather pathetically.

He glanced over at Chess. "Leave...? What..." His eyes widened and he looked up at Domino. "What if we did? Domino... we could be free of this place-! No more tests, no more torture... you know we're ready to kill Silvers, we can go out there on our own and fend for ourselves-!"

Down the hall, Aireio slipped out of her room and peered across into Red's. "Psst, Red! You awake?!"

The bed in Red's room was still with the form of her friend lying in it still.

"Kayen..." Domino blinked down at the boy in his quiet way. "You mean...outside? To battle Silvers?"

"I want to prove to Voskov that I'm worth it!" Kayen giggled, gleefully. "That I can do it, that I don't need any more training! I'm ready!"

"Red!" Aireio hissed, moving over to the door. "Get up!"

Red rolled over. Aireio blinked at his sweat, tortured looking face as he groaned and turned in his sleep.

Glass...and some kinda fluid...that's what he was encased in- looking out through that oxygen mask at the men in white coats as they took notes and spoke to each other...observing him like an animal in the zoo...

Domino stared down at Kayen blankly before he nodded.

"I'm with you." He said.

"D'aww!" Chess cooed.

"You're coming too!" Kayen snapped at Chess, before he made for the door.

"Red!" LiSen cried as he stumbled over, trying to shake his friend awake. "Red, wake up!"

"N-no!" Red twisted and shot up. "Out!"

He breathed a few times before he blinked and looked around- realizing he was in his room.

"Like I'd let you two ditch me in this boring ass place." Chess laughed- hurrying after Domino and Kayen.