Sunlight Chapter 4, Page 1: And that’s how it went. I would wake up, be given something to eat and then taken to a room and given a task. I would pass out from exhaustion or lack of oxygen or something of the sort and then wake up in the white room to do it all over again. It could have happened for days, weeks or months, even years. I felt my body hardening and adjusting to the torment, but I never escaped being pushed to my absolute limit. My new resilience just meant more torture. I had stopped arguing. There was no point. Instead I took to putting all my emotions into a burning need to not let them break me. I couldn’t let them do to me what that completely black room had, I couldn’t lose myself again. I wouldn’t give them that satisfaction. I grew used to the silence and the white of the walls, so when loud crashing noises woke me up instead of the odd presence of one of the people in the full body suits I almost jumped out of my skin. My eyes were trained on the space where the door usually was, and my entire body was rigid with tension. I didn’t know if this was another test or if something was just seriously wrong. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to find out. The door swung open to reveal a guy who looked fairly young, early twenties maybe? He looked wary and grim, like he wasn’t sure how this was going to go down. “Can you understand me?” He asked. “Who are you?” I said back, secretly revelling in the sound of another human voice. I didn’t count Him as a human being. I had seen nothing that would tell me that he was anything but a soulless automaton.
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