5th of Cylus
In My Room All Painted White
He didn't know that a white room could be so dark.
But then, it must have been the season of Cylus, as only a stray beam of moonlight shone through the window, showing h I'm indeed that the walls were some shade of
white
. His eyes searched through the room, scanning, looking. It looked like he'd been cleaned up. Eating the tomato
, he decided, was a very bad idea, given his violent reaction to it. Hadn't Kuvarakh made him immune to poisons? Woe..."Steven." Said a voice, flatly as if in correction to the thoughts running through his head. "Your name is Steven. I'm going to tell her you've been thinking incorrect thoughts."
Woe looked through the darkness, and his eyes fell on another child that shared the room with him. She wore a heavy robe, and had blonde hair, dark rings around her eyes and sickly pale skin. She stared expressionless at him. "Who are you? And tell who? Is Mother here?"
"Steven, you are Steven. Tell me who you are, and I'll tell you who I am." She tilted her head, eyes half-lidded as she regarded the boy. "The other has gone away now, you're a
new
boy.""My name is.... Steven." he muttered, not quite believing himself. "What's your name?"
"I'm Ethyl. But I don't believe you." The corners of her lips turned into a frown, as she wrapped her arms around her knees. "You don't know who you are. But you will, Nurse and her good little shots will help."
"Where are we?" He looked up at the window, which filtered dirty moonlight into their cell. Illustrating the lines of white padded linen on the walls. There were scuff marks where children before him had clawed at the fabric, trying to
escape?
"Day camp for good boys and girls." Ethyl broke a small smile, but it wasn't very convincing. "Don't you want to be
good
?""I..." Then before he could continue speaking, he heard a tapping at the glass of their window. He saw Crow poking its gaze around the bend, trying to tap at the glass. "Do you see her? It's Crow, she want's to come in!"
"Crow is not real!" Ethyl said, sudden anger in her voice. "You are seeing things again, Steven."
"I hear her tapping against the window! She's real!"
"It's worse than Nurse says. You need to be good! Stop it!" Ethyl covered her ears, trying to drown out the sound of Steven's voice.
Steven got up on his feet, and raced to the window, to try and see if he could somehow open it, or find a latch to let
Crow
in so that he could show Ethyl that she was real. "It's my big sister! She's come to rescue me!"Steven tried the corners of the window, looking for anyplace where it might open up, or even vent a little, to try and find some leverage through which it could be opened entirely.
Just then, he felt a jab at his neck. After he fell to his back, on the padded floor of the cell. Moments later, he saw Ethyl staring down at him, shaking her head. "You are a broken
boy
. Nurse is coming to fix
you"
