A doctor sat at a table writing down notes on a piece of paper; his handwriting seemed rushed and messy. He seemed to be leaving a message in his writings. He leaned on his right leg slightly as he wrote, a caliper clamped to the leg and supporting the weak muscle. He was a reasonably young man, but because of an accident, he was left walking with the aid of a wooden cane.
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A body dressed in ebony garbs was on a table behind him, illuminated by bright fluorescent floodlights. They shone down with a flickering buzz. Under the body's clothing, it was covered in bloody bandages from head to toe, in what appeared to be a plastic surgery gone awry. X's painted in thick vermilion ink over where the eyes lay.
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To the left of the body, a heart monitor's line had a steady and consistent straight line. Heavyweight leather straps hold the body, and cables protrude from the table, reaching to the ceiling with no discernable cause.
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The metallic sound of a switch rang through the room from a distant dark corner as sapphire bolts of electricity surrounded the corpse. The bolts shattered its silence with a scream of human likeliness.
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The body sprang to life disquietly, thrashing around. The hide straps strained to keep it from lunging off the table. Each movement seemed to make the muscles bulge in unnatural ways.
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The body slowly fell into silence, no longer trying to escape the pain. Its bandaged hands visibly pulsed, and the veins protruding could be seen despite the layers of bandages.
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A man in thick-framed glasses ambled toward the body with a creaking caliper and tapping cane. "After all these years, finally, I have managed to reattach a soul to a body. However, as expected, this-" he paused, thinking a minute as he leaned on his cane for support.
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"-Anomaly has no control of its strength. A few days in freezing water should fix that."
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The man pressed a button, activating a mechanical claw that lifted the table and the aberration and lowered them into a water tank as the young doctor watched with little emotion.
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The oddity strapped to the table struggled but eventually went silent, letting a single air bubble float quietly from its mouth and pop on the water's surface.
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The man padded to the tank, each step accompanied by the caliper's groans. He stared at the body within. "You don't know this, but you are our last hope. A flickering candle in the dark." He sighed, touching his hand to the glass, and the body jerked in response. Despite being fully submerged, it was still very aware of everything as its nerve endings slowly died.
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"If only we had more time."
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The man turned a dial on the wall next to him, and a large clock started to count down from one hundred twenty hours. He sighed, thinking to himself, "Only thirty-two and this is how it ends."
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The man opened a small locket, looking down at the happy little girl smiling from the picture within. He pulled a revolver out of his lab coat pocket and loaded six bullets despite knowing he would only need one. He glanced at the tank and smiled before putting the gun to his temple with a shaky hand.
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A tear fell from his eye as he pulled the trigger, his body falling to the ground and sending the gun sliding across the floor. The blood pooled around his body. The only sounds in the room came from the clock's persistent ticking.
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Tick tick tick tic...
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