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by PATRIOT on Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:21 am
He lay in the small, practically sheetrock, bed in his cell. He stared up at the ceiling as he had been doing for the entire day. He listened to the sparse stirrings of the other patients throughout the day, as he himself had awoken far before the others. It was more than likely the cause of years of being put to sleep, being drugged, being poisoned, or tranquilized that made the effects of anesthesia seem less and less with every operation. It was as if his body was building an immunity, which was not necessarily a good thing. His eyes traveled slowly to the IV sticking in his arm. He thought about removing it and springing an exit, but if his previous attempts were any indication of what his chances were now, it was likely they would just kill him if he tried again. As his mint green eyes traveled back up to the ceiling, he once again began trying to recall how time had gotten away from him. On the way back from the operation table a few days ago, he had seen a calendar hanging on a nearby wall inside the confines of some sort of office. It had been more than a year since he could remember being free, but by his own calculation, he only had memory of being in the current facility for maybe a month and a half. He wondered where his clothes were. They hadn't even left him the rosary he traditionally wore across his breast. Then again, given the current state of things, he wasn't sure why he expected his supposed religious affiliation to be taken into consideration. It wasn't even that, he just liked having it around. It gave him comfort. It made him feel like he was in his mother's arms again.
His thoughts drifted back to the rumblings in the other cells. Listening to people move about seemed to be his new past time, as it was a talent he didn't have a few mere weeks ago. In fact, before this last couple of weeks, he remembered his hearing being almost completely shot. His new ears, cloaked in black fur and resembling a fox's, seemed to be the source of this second-chance at being fully functional. For that, he was somewhat grateful, which was more than he could say for the obnoxiously bushy tail that had been growing for a couple of weeks now as well. When moving about, he had been trying to find new ways to make it seem more subtle. By now, he had grown used to merely curling it up behind him when he stood erect, but he wondered if perhaps he could hide it in his pants without it being too obvious.
A sudden chuckle from a nearby cell snapped him out of these arbitrary thoughts, and back into the present. It made him realize that since he had arrived there, he hadn't even attempted communication with any of the other patients. In passing, he had seen a few of them in the hallways, and some had even attempted to start conversations with him, but it was his disposition to be habitually anti-social. It was the way he was... "raised." But he grew tired of this place, and the boredom was beginning to get to him. He decided to try something that perhaps wasn't very smart, but he figured he had little to lose from it. He stood up and slid his hospital gown over his slim, but muscular body. He pressed himself as close to the left wall as possible, and near to the cell door, and listened to make sure that someone was stirring next door. Then, looking around, he began to knock on the wall, attempting to perhaps get the attention of the patient next door, and he muttered a seemingly pointless, "Can anyone hear me?"
His voice caught him off-guard. It was raspy and coarse, though not too deep. He hadn't heard himself speak in what seemed like forever. When no one immediately replied to his request, he shrugged and said to himself, "Well... not like it matters anyway... I could sure use a cigarette."
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