Caitlyn had explored the empty hospital halls on her own, having lost Dovev somehow and unable to find any others. She turned a hall, and found herself in a small bathroom with a large metal tub in the middle. Caitlyn was about to turn, when at the door were two large nurses who grabbed her and forced her into the tub. Despite fighting as hard as
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And she has woken up here, in the tunnels. And she wasn't wearing her hospital gown - too dark to see much, but her habituated fingers recognized a sweatshirt - a new one, given the fuzzy interior, and jeans. Sneakers, too. Socks...
And she hears singing. At least it's a woman's voice - she'd rather meet a strange woman than a strange man, down here in what likely might be a sewer. The darkness doesn't scare her, the world has been a dark place for most of her life. But things in the dark are worth consideration.
"Um, hello?" She calls out nervously.
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So does the train.
The platform comes into view, fortunately it has stairs from the tracks up to the white-tiled station.
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"That was one way to get here quickly." A soft chuckle escapes her lips, but really she is frightened about how close they came to dying.
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"Whoa...thanks for that. How - how did you..." She shakes her head. "Okay, I don't know if I'm comfortable with how weird my life has become in the last hour or so..."
She studies a large faded poster in the station while she tries to calm down, but the poster itself makes her nervous, for no decent reason. It features a smiling woman with many brightly-colored bags of designer clothes, with a tagline of "Meet me at The Shop!"
"I'm sorry. I never told you my name, did I? I'm Savannah. Savannah Grey, but Savvy will do. And um, thanks for saving my life back there, such as it is."
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Glancing up, as the remainder of the train that had been chasing them rolled by the platform, Caitlyn tried to orient herself. She still felt lost.
"I am Caitlyn." The name is starting to feel wrong, somehow. "And you are welcome. At least we lost the rats. And that train."
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"Caitlyn...something really strange is going on. I can't remember my parents' names or what they look like, suddenly. It's not like I've forgotten though...it's like I never knew! Oh God..." and she sits down heavily on a grimy bench, next to a random radio tuned to a random station.
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The radio crackles. A familiar voice for Caitlyn comes from the station, "Whatssa matter Harls? Feeling lost? Heheheheheheh."
She turns white and tries not to freak out, or to scare Savannah. "I do not like this place."
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Savannah notices Caitlyn's reaction to the radio, and fiddles with the dial herself. The first voice she hears is somehow familiar, and she goes as white as Caitlyn.
"Please face the wall with your hands on your head. Do not turn around." says a somewhat pleasant computerized voice.
A pause, and then a sharp burst of static, and Savannah whimpers sharply, curling up on the bench in reflex.
""...ry that again, you wo....like that yo...ittle bitc..." growls an angry voice. With another cry, Savannah grabs up the radio and hurls it onto the tracks, as if it were something frightening and disgusting. The radio comes to rest against the electric third rail, sparks, and dies.
((will be gone for a few hours, be back this evening!))
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"The radio can not harm us anymore. We have to figure out if we move forward or stay in this spot."
She has a faint whisper of a memory of a lulluby she once sung to her daughter. Except, Caitlyn doesn't have a daughter. But the song is still there, in her heart, and so she softly hums it.
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"Let's get out of here, it's too strange. We'll catch the next train, even if we don't have tickets, we can at least try to get on..."
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It runs over the radio on the tracks and it comes to a stop. However, when the doors open, a pale man in a black coat is standing there. "Another two with problems we will have to fix."
The presence of the man does not make Caitlyn very happy. "Savannah... we have to get out of here. Now!"
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Getting out of here, however, seems tricky. But there's always the track, again. Savannah rushes to the side and jumps down off the platform and onto the tracks behind the train, hoping that it can't travel in reverse. She hits the ground hard, but is on her feet in a flash and high-tailing it towards who-knows what, ignoring the rats and puddles of muck.
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"You have been poor test subjects, we will just have to start again." The Stranger is stronger than he appears too. And soon he and Caitlyn have switched positions, with him holding her up against the wall.
"I am not a test subject!" Caitlyn lifts her legs to kick him in the stomach. Causing him to gasp slightly for air. Moving towards the train, she glances around for Savannah, and calls out to her. "Savannah! The tracks are not a safe place, take my hand and we will board this train to nowhwere."
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"Who was that and - Test subject? That...I'm - WAS, was one before...I think. Oh God, I have so many memories and I can't figure out if they're real. I have...I somehow have two fathers, that doesn't even make sense!"
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"My memories are not clear either... But I am sure we can get through this."
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