Grace - Corridor to room - Hybrid/Eagle
Grace was still blushing when the awkward conversation ended with the snake hybrid. She fervently wished she could be like the others and chatter away like a normal person...well, sort of person. He had been very kind to her, though she still hadn't even gotten his name. Grace didn't think she would have the courage to talk to him after today to ask, anyway.
"Let's go," one guard said as she passed him, on her way back to her room. "I'll lock you in tonight."
Maybe it was from the days excitement or maybe it was because Grace actually mustered up the courage to talk to someone today, but she let a question bubble out of her mouth before she thought twice about it.
"Uhm, s-sir?" she said, nervously. "Why is it t-that you l-lock us up?"
The guard laughed without a trace a humor. "To protect you and those around you. You hybrids are not normal. Either you or another hybrid could, at any moment, go into another experiments room and kill the other."
Grace shivered, hated to be referred to as an experiment...something that wasn't entirely human. Didn't he realize how much she tried to be normal? Still running off the days high, she bravely stopped in the corridor causing him to turn around and face her.
"Yes, I-I know that's what they say," she said with more confidence. Grace was pleased to see her nervous stutter wasn't as prominent. "However, if I asked you not to lock my doors for the night, but to lock other Hybrids would you still lock it?"
The guard looked, really looked at her, almost as if he were sizing her up. He raised an eyebrow in a silent gesture for her to continue.
"You see, in order to make us feel less like prisoners I think it will be beneficial for each of us to go a night without our doors locked. Especially considering that you see us more as animals than people, to which I won't even talk much about so I won't lose my head, it doesn't make sense to make an animal live caged up. It'll make us fight all the more."
The guard was silent for a long time. "Are you finished?"
Grace stood up a little straighter, smoothing her feather like hair, and nodded. The guard smiled wickedly and laughed loudly. Then turned on her as quick as a flash. He pinned her arms to her sides and forced her against the cold stone walls. Grace tried not to let fear show on her face, but no guard had ever handled her like this. As if she were nothing more than a rag doll.
"Listen here you little brat," he hissed, spit hitting her in the face. "You are not human. You are a prisoner here, and I don't care what the scientists say. You are to be locked up to never see the sun again. You are wrong. You don't belong anywhere in this world and I don't want to hear any more of this nonsense. Some people think you could be...useful. But do you know what I think? You are a mistake that needs to be taken care of. So stop acting like you matter to anyone or that you deserve anything the anyone here. Do you understand me?"
Grace remained silent. It was the only thing she could do because she has shaking like a leaf. Her eyes, wide with shock and terror, was giving away just how scared she was. She wouldn't, no couldn't, let him have her pride too.
"Are you stupid or something?" The guard asked incredulously. "I said, do you UNDERSTAND ME!"
Her head hit against the wall with a sharp crack and red dots danced before her eyes. She ripped her arms from his grasp, thankful that all the years of flying left her biceps relatively strong, and shoved him. Grace heard him gasp and clutch his arm. She smelled it before she saw the red drip from his arm and splash on the ground.
Grace looked at her hands in horror. Amid the fear and confusion, her hands had turned into talons. She looked from her hands to the guard before her. She was still shaking but she couldn't feel anything.
"I-I'm so s-s-s-orry!" she exclaimed. "I-I didn't m-m-mean-"
The guard snatched her up by her arm and half carried her to her room. He threw her inside and slammed the door, the lock clicking into place shortly after.
"I'd be very careful," she heard his voice call to from behind the door. "Because this isn't the last you have heard of this...and don't think I'll let Dr. Sebastian deal with this, you little bitch."
Grace slowly walked to her bed and sat down. She touched her arm gently, and saw an ugly blue-green bruise was already started to form. Even through her terror Grace realized one thing from her encounter. She wasn't safe here. No hybrid was safe here.
Grace swallowed carefully and took out her hidden blueprint of the building. She was going to need a lot of help, but it was definitely doable. Grace hid her plans underneath her mattress and laid down, not bothering to walk over to the door slot where dinner was served.
All she could think of was escaping. Finally getting out into the wide open skies. She was going to do it, and she was going to do it soon. All she needed was a little bit of luck and a lot of help.
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