When I started to awake, the first thing I noticed was the fact that I felt something pulse behind my eyeballs after whatever happened earlier. It felt so familiar like... oh wait, it's pain. Oh how much I didn't miss you. That was one of the best parts about being immortal! No pain!
Well, it does suck when you accidentally put your hand on a hot stove and you realize it is on fire five minutes later when the smoke burns your nostrils. Things definitely heat up after that.
But my head, ugh. Someone must have thought it would be fun if they sat ontop of my skull while trying to crush it with their gluts. I opened my eyes which felt like boulders. I snapped them shut when dull lights burned them and I hissed. I let them be for a moment so the fiery pain would cool. Once I was certain the pain had lessened to the point where I could open it without much trouble, I hesitantly opened one eye to test the waters.
I hissed again when the lights smashed into my eyeball and I heaved my hand over my eye to dampened the brightness. When my eye adjusted, I opened the other and repeated the process. The lights above seemed to shine through glass or somekind of plastic, I wasn't sure. I then threw my upper body into a upright position to see others who were just waking up.
This wasn't right. I recognized none of these people.
I needed to figure out what was going on and after a quick scan, we were all in a cell made out of the same material as the ceiling. No way to escape either. Bummer. Behind a wall, though, were a group of humans of what I could only presume to be scientist of the possible mad variety who noticed our awakening. What they said didn't help either.
Apparently we were test subjects for whatever reason.
I frowned and narrowed my eyes.
Fuck. That.
I was not a guinea pig to be experimented upon. My hands instinctively went straight for my weapons,
Eaql Kul tal and
Rooh Sluagh , while my mind dazedly spit out a plan... wait, wouldn't they have taken my weapons?
I didn't feel the handles so that would be a yes. I patted myself down with the fear that they also took my clothes and armor, completely ignoring that the others still had their clothes on. When the fabric met my hands and the breastplate chilled my skin, I let out a breath of relief. At least I was allowed to keep my dignity and though the armor could only protect so much, it was still better than having none at all.
I huffed. Oh joyous headaches.
After I allowed my rage to shimmer down and the angry clouds to lift from my mind, it began processing the information it had absorbed.
A blinding light sucked me into a void where my old friend pain kneed me in the stomach, threw me into a plastic box full of people I don't know being observed by possibly mad scientists who are running a experiment of some kind, and not only took away our weapons, but given what 'William' implied, our powers as well.
It was best to play along for now,
I'll test my abilities later when they aren't looking
I looked around the crowd and naturally there were varying reactions. I saw two people who just started a conversation with each other and decided that it would be best to begin seeing potential, amicable people and potential, annoying people.
I walked over to them, cracking a smile to show I was a chilled and friendly man who was not going to use them as meatshields.