Grizeo’s cell mate is surprisingly just the blue haired boy who seems to find lips and orifices useless. He does not talk. Despite Grizeo’s prying and nosy advances. It would have been advantageous for Grizeo if he had known what kind of experiments he can expect. Starting every experiment with physical assessments and the surgery of implanting the cell to his very real tacet discord. Fortunately, it is Dr. Bolg who does the operation and manages to trick everyone although, now Grizeo has a scary scar on his face. One that his cell mate finds interesting and being stared at. “Do I look ugly?”
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Blue haired boy, whom he had come to call “Coy”, stares deeply to Grizeo’s soul before shaking his head. He then taps on Grizeo’s thighs, his first ever interaction after a week of living in this prison. Cozy enough for him but boring that his legs might end up curling dead like a fried octopus’s tentacle. Blue boy always taps Grizeo’s thighs when he is asking for tacetite. Somehow the scientists and the guards are not giving him anymore. And he could only get by stealing until he was caught yesterday and the scientists made him lose control as punishment. Nobody was injured but, he was so out of control that he damaged a quarter of the facility. Dr. Bolg had to step in and fire a tranquilizer. To which it had ruined the boy’s chest with a pulsating purple tumor.
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It is disgusting to look at, and pitiful. “Three tacetites” Grizeo says and gives him three, “Everyday, but only if you do more than just poke.” Why is he even here, taking care and playing with this boy. He should be searching for Lim but that thought rests heavily on Dr. Bolg’s shoulder when, during the latest experiment, Dr. Bolg said that he found a way to summon a Lament. But they need to test it first so now, Grizeo has to play this waiting game, and teasing the boy while he is at it. For a terribly drawn-out month, he feels as if his fingers and muscles have grown dull. Sometimes the scientists would go ask him errands but never going out the base. The gym area is not cutting him anymore and he wants a fight. A real fight, not with brawlers where he can easily one shot anyone—even the soldiers. And in a paintball shooting game, well he always wins.
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Aside from all the entertainment, he has Coy to look after. Somehow and he does not know how, he is taking care of Coy’s communication problem. Acting as his voice if he wants a certain food or toy. Scrubbing his back and bathing together with him. And gambling, Coy is surprisingly a good gambler. Luck seems to be always on his side. But as the days pass, the more Coy looks tired, and the more Grizeo gets simulations and experimented on his tacet mark. Unlike Coy who struggles to control his abilities, Grizeo easily impresses everyone. All thanks to Dr. Bolg’s lies.
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But still, he wants his guns. His babies, his appendage to be of use again. Sounds weird but since the guns are also prohibited, he got himself fake plunger guns. As the name states, it shoots out tiny plungers that stick to the target. When Coy suddenly gets all touchy and says his first words “Take care of me”, Grizeo cannot help feeling warm in his cheeks and on the chest where blue boy rests on top of him.
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“Get off” Grizeo says before shooting a plunger straight in between the forehead, harassing the blue boy with a machine gun of plungers before the soldiers come in and confiscate them. Only for them to return it thirty minutes after Grizeo fell asleep with the blue boy on top of him—both bored to death.
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Blaring
Blaring
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The red alarms are blaring. Either a natural disaster is happening or a large chunk of the base is destroyed, Grizeo has only see the alarms red once. And that was when blue boy was rampaging. Blue boy is gone along with the soldiers outside the cell. Left alone in his wake with the stupid high-pitched alarm and dizzying spinning reds. He brings his exhausted feet up. Somehow exhausted when he did nothing intensive for over a month.
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“Griz!” Dr. Bolg comes up and quickly opens the cell, “We did it!”
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“Did what?” Scratching his eyes awake, “What is happening here?”
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“The Lament! We made one, but it is incomplete. It does not have the white resonance chords that you can touch and transfer to another world but we called down a Lament!”
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“A Lament without the chords…?”
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“I know, I know. That’s just a disaster! But we did not know. And this is the result. Absolute catastrophe, but we are so close. So so so close! Hurry, we should get out of here before this whole base blows down on our heads.
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Grizeo looks around, clearly seeing that Coy is not around. “Where is he? We should bring him”
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“Who are you talking about?”
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“Coy, the blue boy with me in this cell, Name’s Coy? Is he still in the lab?”
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“No…” Bolg raises his eyebrows, “Why are you looking for him when he started all this?”
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“What!?”
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Bolg’s eyes grow wide as he immediately realizes his mistake. “I know that you have spent much time with him… But are you going to start looking for him just as you go look for your twin? He’s already a lost cause. The Tacet took him.”
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“Where is he?” gritting his teeth, and grabbing the doctor’s collar, “And why didn’t you tell me you are testing a Lament on him.”
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“Why do you care!? He’s just someone who failed. Failed to resonate with a tacet mark, failed in his experiments, and always start going feral at everything.”
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“You didn’t even give him enough tacetite”
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“Because there wasn’t enough. Our best chance to get rid of him is testing the Lament. And oh, did it work well just failed with the mark and chords.”
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Grizeo hauls the doctor crashing to the bed as he runs out. The doctor calling out to him but his voice fades as he steps into the commons where everything is burning. Flames burning, and some of the vendors try to save their stalls with an extinguisher but it is futile. The trees above their heads crashing down on them. Jeremy barely gets out alive as Grizeo saved him just in time from a falling branch. But his mother could not.
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“Get out of here” Grizeo says, but Jeremy’s legs are shaking like hell and he is clinging to his arm like a baby. “Hey, stop wussing.”
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“But…mother…she’s dead”
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“And you will too but later!” Grizeo burns his eyes ablaze as he bazooka throws Jeremy against the soft cushioned walls of a hallway. He sprints for the hallway leading to the military armory. Swiping the soldier card that he stole on day one as he looks around for any weapons he can use. Better with the Uzis but they only keep rifles. Not a single pistol. No choice but to grab two rifles and one rocket launcher. The extra rifle and rocket launcher his back and one that he can carry. All before a soldier comes in to grab their own firearms.
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The hallways leading outside is impossible with the toppled down beams and burning walls. Going through the laboratories are even more dangerous with a smoke of chemicals and explosions. Then, Dr. Bolg is once again hot on his feet, asking Grizeo to stop whatever he is going to do. But it is too late, blazing his tacet mark to spark, the rocket launcher fires a heavy blast that obliterates an entire wall. Opening the lab for the wasteland outside, and the etheric sea that floods the sky.
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“GRIZ! PLEASE CONSIDER THAT WE CAN FIND LIM IF YOU GO WITH ME”
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“THEN GO AHEAD YOURSELF! I’LL CATCH UP LATER”
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“T-THEN, YOU AREN’T ANGRY??”
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Grizeo looks over his shoulder, showing the doctor his electrifying tacet mark and flaming ember eyes. “VERY” growling hellishly before leaping out of the hole, zapping himself with lightning towards the center of a dust storm below.
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