I woke up in the dark. Still, I could see the bars of my dog crate, since I have amazing night vision.
Hi, I'm Maximum, and I'm a human that lives in this place called the School. Well, I'm not exactly human, just mostly human. I'm a recombinant life form, part human, part bird, so I have wings and hollow bones and all sorts of cool things. At least they would be cool if I didn't have to get tortured here.
There are others like me, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. We're kept in dog crates until one of the Whitecoats take us and perform tests. The only thing I hated more than staying here in this dog crate were the tests.
The door of my room opened and light shined through. A Whitecoat stepped in and put another recombinant in a dog crate, and walked out. It was Fang, my friend, and he was shaking from what they did to him.
"Not cool," Angel, the youngest one here, whispered. "They shouldn't do that to us." She was probably talking about what happened to Fang. Angel could read minds.
"I didn't know you were awake," I said, extending my hand into Angel's crate.
"Hi Max," she replied. Angel's blond hair looked ravaged ever since the Whitecoats began testing how little food they could feed her. I don't think she had eaten for a week by then.
"Hungry Max. Can you convince them to give me some food?" Angel croaked. I stroked her hair.
"I'll try the best I can, sweetie," I soothed. The Whitecoats watched us eat, so it wasn't all that easy to sneak food.
"Can you hide it?" Angel asked, giving me the answer to my dilemma.
"Okay," I said as the door opened again, the Whitecoat Jeb stepping in.
"Quiet, little ones," he said, unlocking all our crates. I wondered what he was going to do to us as a group. "Come on, follow me."
We crawled out of our cages and walked out the door. Angel held on to my hand.
"He's leading us outside," she whispered. Angel looked hopeful, something I had only ever seen expressed by Whitecoats.
"Where?" I asked. I'd never been outside before. I didn't know what dangers lurked outside.
Angel spoke one word. "Home."
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