The black-haired girl had found herself backing away from the crowd into a corner. For some reason, she found her sticking close to Junior. She wasn't sure as to why, probably because it was the first person she had saw upon regaining consciousness, but she had the slightest amount of trust placed in him.
This was madness . . .
She had her arms on her shoulders still and looked around the room. Long, white hallways. It was like a bizarre episode of a sci-fi show out of the 90s. It was freezing . . the girl could see her breath, even from inside. It briefly made her curious what the weather was like outside. Where they were. But she wasn't going to start asking questions, there were already so many to begin with. For starters, who were they? Who was she?
She blinked, her teeth chattering rapidly. She looked around at the others, having learned some of their names. Like Zed, for example. Clearly, a nickname. She lowered her knife; she should give herself a nickname as well. "Judas . .", her quiet, serious voice was suddenly thrown into the loop of voices, ". . I'm Judas. The girl found herself looking down at her extremely frail, pale arms. Where had she gotten that name from? She wasn't going to ask that, either.
That's when she noticed the boy at the end of the hall. Short, pale. Looked around Junior's age. He had black-hair and a shy look in his eyes, one that was coated with surprise. He was also holding a canteen in his hand, "And I don't have water," she pointed in the boy's direction, "But he might."
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The black-haired boy awoke with a jolt, he had previously been whimpering and biting his lip, as indicated by the blood on it now. He drowsily looked around the room, his back was sore and his eyes hurt. He was also hungry and thirsty are per usual. And to make matters worse, he was still alone. Alexander and all of the other kids were all still under, in their comas.
All of the silence made Raven wish he wasn't the first one awake. It was scary and lonely by himself and he missed his older brother on top of that. He shook his head, removing the thoughts of negativity from his mind before standing up. Across the room was his brother on a cot, there were metal bars around his arms . . as if they were restricting him from moving. Raven remembered the first time he had saw those, he got so pissed that he laced them with a layer of solid ice. That was the day he discovered that he had ice powers, too.
The dream he had last night was strange. Strange, but it made him hopeful. As he left the room, he found himself mulling over it again: the others had woken up, they managed to meet up in one of these hallways and exchanged names. He couldn't hear any of them, but he did hear one ask for water. He wasn't sure why, but he found himself wandering around the halls. It was like a maze in this . . facility. Most of the doors were stuck, some were frozen solid. The walls were also covered in ice, but that was mainly thanks to Raven, though the doors on the other hand, had nothing to do with him.
He had found a small kitchen area on his second day after wandering lost for hours. Since then, he had it memorized in the back of his mind. When he arrived there, he managed to find something metal to store the water in. While he let the sink run, he wondered why the pipes hadn't frozen yet. He also found himself wondering how the others would react to the cold. He imagined it was almost subzero in here.
The cold doesn't really bother me anyway.
Then he shut off the sink and continued on his way.
That is how he ended up here. Right across from the crowd he saw earlier from his dream . . holding the canteen of water. When the girl pointed to him, he couldn't help but let out a sharp gasp. "You're . . you're all awake." Was all he could manage to sputter out.