Snippet #2109226

Kalex sat straight up, legs tucked close to her body as she held on to them with a stone hard grip. She had to stay awake. It had been three days since she had last fallen asleep. Why? She had to remember, even if it was for only a few days. Her pathetic excuse for clothing, an off-white patient's robe with small pink dots, let her know two things:
1. If she fell asleep she'd forget everything.
2. Don't trust anyone.

The past three days had proved these points, scientists repeatedly had entered her cell to explain her present situation, at first they tried to make it seem like a doctors visit, she had extreme amnesia and they were trying to help her fix it. Quickly she realized that was not the case as they proceeded to shock her with what felt like cattle prods to get a reaction from her mind and would force her to fall into deep trances as she touched objects that contained dreadful memories. They had proved the 1st advice from her memories by constantly reminding her if she went to sleep it would all go away, more recently they had stopped reminding her.

She had learned she wasn't the only one here, there were other screams of pain and whispers of conversation. Kalex had yet to be tested on today but perhaps they were more interested in watching her drive herself insane under the stress of not sleeping. Her eyes were droopy with dark circles and there was a purplish bruise forming on her left arm where she had pinched herself repeatedly to prevent sleep. Scientists had passed by and they led a group of the other subjects past her to continue some testing. One of the scientists remained and was taunting a girl, he had a gun out, Kalex hated how casually he held that gun.

"Stop..." She meekly squeaked out, it didn't matter if he heard or not she needed the release of that word, the slight objection to his torture of another human. Her emotions broke apart and she started crying, the lack of sleep was messing with her mind.