【ɗιαƖσgυє cσƖσя:#4c4373 ♙ тнσυgнт cσƖσя #77718d】Anna watched as the female doctor ushered the group of sponsors about of the room. She was all plastic smiles and robotic pleasantries and the men buzzed on excitedly about the program and the progress that had been made with the stardust children. It sickened Anna that this was even happening, that their abilities were being put on show to blanket a facility of abuse and that they were shackled into doing so with threats. Her and her siblings shouldn’t have to have been subjected to such treatment. None of them deserved any of what this facility subjected them too, and Anna knew everyone was owed the type of life she had experienced before they had captured her.
The female doctor was in her face before she even realized what was happening. The woman seemed to be enraged, and as Anna watched her she could see the nick in her ear where one of the daggers Anna has shot hit the doctor. As the pride swelled in her chest Anna was especially careful to keep her expression still and unreadable. The woman raised her hand and smacked it with all her strength against Annalise’s cheek. The strike was so hard it threw the girl off balance and she hit the floor hard, pain rocketing up her biceps as the floor connected with her elbow and forearm.
“You were told not act out.” The woman spat at her before yanking the blonde back to her feet by a large chunk of hair. As the doctor forced Anna to look at her the blonde girl kept her expression still and apathetic, the last thing she wanted was to give the doctor the satisfaction of seeing her in pain. The woman began talking again, dragging her towards the exit as she did so. “We don’t have time to punish all of you though, too much to do today, so that little one will be taking all of your scoldings.”
The statement was something Anna knew would happen, the doctor had warned her ahead of time that any improper actions would lead directly to the punishment of her younger sibling, yet the anger swelled in her gut like the climax of a symphony. She didn’t say anything though, her mind reeling with the possibilities of what they might subject Alice to. The electric shock they had been using on Anna was the main thing that came to mind, unbearably painful and crippling she couldn’t imagine what it would do to the little girl. Anna kept her mouth shut, fear of worsening Alice’s punishments, fresh and raw in her mind, kept the blonde girl tamed.
When she was led into the convention room the girl was more than confused. She had thought that after the sponsors had left that she was done performing for these people, but the large room was already filling with the people who would be pouring their money into the torture of children. Anna’s lip curled in disgust, the doctor had finally let go of her hair and was herding her towards the backstage area behind the curtain. With no idea what to expect Anna followed, her steps uneven as she tried to keep her balance in her tall shoes, the heels digging into her feet and pulling on tendons that made her ache.
Behind the curtain were five separate sections, seemingly one for each of them, but the thought left her as quickly as it came when she spotted Grey back there too. She rushed forward, nearly tripping in the ridiculous shoes as she did so to reach her brother’s side. He didn’t look well, that much was certain, and as she reached him she called his name out.
“Grey! What’s wrong? Are you ok? Have you seen the others?” She reached out and pulled him into a hug, he seemed nearly as out of it as Ryuu had when he first entered the cafeteria. The blonde girl couldn’t believe that they had the nerve to drug him this heavily when they expected them to perform in front of all these people. Grey was in no condition to do anything, his mind didn’t seem focused as all and he almost looked sick. The girl placed a hand over Grey’s forehead, and he did feel warmer than a person should, but with her heart racing and this whole situation she couldn’t tell if there was any real fever or not.
She glanced frantically around the backstage area, there were an unsurprising amount of people around them, and those that were didn’t seem to keen to give the two any extra attention. The idea to escape struck Anna hard in that moment, nearly no staff around and a room full of sponsors would prove ideal for escape, if only Grey could pull himself together. Surely their other siblings were being led to this room too, if they could all get together then it might have just been possible to get out of here.