Cinia turned her attention to the boy who asked why she had no arms. She didn't mind answering this question. She atleast knew why she didn't have arms. "I was born without them!" Cinia said with a smile. She then started to look around the room hoping to find some kind of game or something. "Well can any one think of their favorite color atleast?" Cinia asked them all. "Mine is green." Cinia added. She felt that atleast they would know something about each other other than name and age.

"So, the armless girl's name is Cinia. Three. Four more."
"She's quite happy for someone who's probably been kidnapped, had her memories wiped, and placed here against her will. Actually, no, she almost looks like she wanted to be here."
"Obviously. Not just to me, but probably to everyone else as well."
"So, Alex and Cinia, they just introduced themselves, will you?"

Sasha sighed.

"I guess. If what Echo said is true and we all are the best of friends once, interacting with them shouldn't be dangerous even though it really feels like it."

She was about to introduce herself until Alex interjected about Cinia's lack of arms. Sasha shot him a glare.

"Oh yeah, why doesn't she have arms?"
"The most obvious answer is a birth defect. Tied for the second-most obvious answer is either an accident, or a required amputation. Either way, one does not simply just ask a person who you have just acquainted with about their...deformities. Though, judging by how cheery the girl is, she should be able to shrug it off."
"He does seem to regret his interjection though, so he is a normal functioning human being with feelings."

"I'm Sasha..." She finally said slowly, her face looking a bit nervous.

"Why so slow?"
"Can't you see? I'm trying to make an optimal first impression here."
"Don't you see? Alex and Cinia seem to be rather amiable from the looks of it. Relax a little."

Even with her mind trying to reassure itself, Sasha still feels rather nervous.

"As for where we are?...I don't know. God only knows— or rather Echo...Though Cinia has a point, this place is rather clean...considering how just about everything here is white."

"I wonder, could I have talked about something better?"
"Not necessarily better, but I know something."

"I'm 16. How about you guys?"

"There, that should get something going."

Noel looked to Cinia and then looked upward in thought "Favorite color..." she brings up a hand to her face and curls a finger under her chin "Not sure honestly..." she then looks down at the red hoodie she's wearing and lightly tugged it between two fingers. Noel looks back up, "Red I guess." Noel then looks to the newer girl, introduced as Sasha, and listened to her speak. Another name bites the dust. This name learning process should be done soon. At least it better be, or something. And then she heard the name: Echo. Ahhh. So that's the lady behind the speakers. Finally got her name. Moving on. This Sasha girl seemed really nervous for some reason, as if trying hard for something possibly. Noel slid her hands down her jean pockets and responded to her, "Seventeen. Oh, and I'm.." Noel took an approximate two second pause, as if blanking out. She just had to think quick for a bit as she looked to the wall and then back, "..Noel by the way," she finished her sentence.

Sam walks over to the right bottom bunk, touching it and claiming it as his own while the others spoke and the nameless blue haired girl vanished through the doorway into the other room. "My name is Sam. I'll take this bunk if it's cool. I'm 18 and my favorite colour is auburn or dark red." His sentences were short, answering the obvious questions as if that was all they would have to say to know each other, and slumped to the floor with his back against his bunk, watching the others again. He lifted his gaze to the armless girl, her sweater sleeves flopping about as she smiled, obviously cheerful even though it was difficult to muster any level of happiness without really knowing what was going to happen to them. "Cinia if you don't mind my asking; what did Echo do to you while you were gone? I hope it was nothing painful.”

@Cuccoruler

Cinia turned to look at Sam and smiled at him, she didn't want to reveal anything that could harm herself she she figured it was best to just be really really vague. "She did stuff!" Cinia said with a smile. "Oh and I call a top bunk!" Cinia added as headed over to a bunk that was up. How she would get up there without arms would be revealed later when she would use her new powers to float herself up. But for now she thought it best not to show off.

"Noel and Sam. Five. Two more."
"Well, we'll know them soon enough."
"Good point."
"Tap your bed."
"What."
"You called your bed, sure, but then everyone else touched their beds when they called it, so I'm guessing you should too."
"Did Cinia just call a top bunk...even though she has no arms to scale that ladder?"
"She said she wasn't born with them, I'm pretty sure, she knows how to climb a ladder with legs alone. Judging by the...uh...conversation I just heard, Echo did...something to Cinia as well."
"Judging by my perception of Echo, it's not good. Though, I'd pray to God that it's not that bad."

Sasha walked up to the bed under the stairs and touched it.

"Calling this bed again...just in case."

"So, what's your favourite colour?"
"A pretty irrelevant answer if you ask me. Besides, I wouldn't know. I don't know anything anything about myself other than 'my name is Sasha Farliasas and I'm 16 years old.'"
"And you know that—"
"That is not completely confirmed. You know that."
"Would you at least think that it could be real?"
"Already at the back burner."
"So, favourite colour? I suggest red, just because."
"But Noel and Sam already picked red. I don't think it's a good idea to roll with red."
"Fine. Try blue, or perhaps green , or orange. Actually no, this is more complicated than I thought, why do people ask about their favourite colours anyway?"
"Exactly, it's completely trivial."
"Well, since you are clearly bored of the question, what do you think we should say?"
"I got it. Ask them their expectations in this facility."
"What. Let me reinstate to you that, we were here, we had our memories wiped, we were in this facility together and expected to forge a strong friendship with seven other people, you already know what they'll say, so what's the point of asking?"
"Well, if Echo said that we are supposed to make a strong bond, asking what everyone else thinks of the facility makes a decent starting point before Echo unleashes whatever horror she has in store for us in which we would all probably be forced to bond together either to rebel or to at least get out of this situation with all of our sanity as intact as possible. Plus, in theory, it makes a pretty interesting conversation."
"Alright, go for it."

Sasha turned to face the others.

"Since we are all in this facility together, most likely against our will, our memories wiped, and now we're told that we're supposed to bond together as the best of friends like we allegedly once were, what do you think is in store for us in this facility? For me, I think our experience will be...bittersweet. It seems, judging by the quality of beds that I'm seeing here, it seems that we're going to have decent care at least, though something tells me that something bad is going to happen. I don't know what or when, but somewhere along the line, I have a slight hunch that something unpleasant is going to happen somewhere in this facility, and we are left to deal with it. That's my take on it anyway, what's yours?"

@Tabitha
The young woman jumped down from the bunk marked with her name, narrowly missing the man who had sat down on the floor as she straightened up and walked toward the door without a word; they knew her name now thanks to that woman and she wasn't much a fan of that at all. In fact just before she stepped through the door she glanced back over her shoulder, carefully looking at all of them for a moment and watching the armless girl in paricular, looking for some sort of difference and she didn't see anything before she stepped through the door and it closed behind her. The rom before her was neat and white, with littler variation of the shades of grey that lined the chairs, cubbies and wires that spouted from the walls. They were sensors, clearly and she thought something was going to happen, she was part of an experiment so it was only normal for her to be pulled aside as the experimental group while the others remained the control. She walked the length of the room, looking at everything she around her she was certain to retain all of the small details while the woman spoke. She didn't know where the camera was that allowed Echo to see her, but Vanessa knew she could hear her.

"I swear, that if this brings any form of harm to my person; I will hunt you down, and I will kill you. Nothing and no one will stand in the way of that. Do you understand?"

Vanessa could easily have played the villain and in many cases she had before even if she didn't remember it then, it was coming to her rather easily in the way she threatened the woman, cold and clearly without mercy. Without another word she pulled out a chair and sat down, attaching the sensors with a practiced hand that was still regardless of the pain. Watching the robot enter the room she carefully touched the chocolate, feeling it between her fingers before she smelled it and tasted it. It was good, but there was nothing that could make her eat more of it considering that she was sitting in a while room with no one else in it, being watched by some sadistic scientist so obviously there was something up with the chocolate.

@ViolentViolet Echo in her room laughed. It was out of reach of the microphone, so no one could hear her. "I'm just a sad little scientist talking to herself, aren't I? I wish you all knew. What was going on outside and what your lives were like, but I can't. It would ruin the process," she said to herself. I have to be the bad guy. But if it helps others, then the bad guy I will have to be.

For the most part, Echo wasn't really even watching Vanessa anymore. She was just thinking to herself of how mad she must be to have done what she had done, and is continuing to do.

She looked back to the screen and spoke to Vanessa. "If you want, you can go back. I really don't mind. This was just for you. I'm almost positive that Vistra would be happy to claim your prize," she told her. Echo saw that Vanessa was still skeptic of what she had given her.

It suddenly hit Echo then. A thought. An idea while they were talking in the bedroom. They wouldn't accept what niceness she had to offer unless they were given a bit a torture. At first it seemed like a terrible idea. Like when one considers a thought then immediately thinks oh no no, take that back that was absolutely terrible and you should have never thought of anything even like that! But as it sunk in, it made sense to her. They'd want a break if they were tortured, and they'd do whatever it took to get one. Sure,it was a real bad guy move. But it'd be a quicker way to get the results she needed.
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Vistra thought. "Hmm, yeah. I guess you have a point. I wonder what's going on with Vanessa...," she said at first to the girl who had chosen the bed under hers, then in general.

Noel crossed her arms and slowly paced again, but this time towards the bottom left bed before slowly taking a seat on it as she listened to the girls speak. Noel was already pissed as it is at this so-called facility. Actually, she's probably been pissed this whole time ever since she woke up. However Noel wasn't expressing this. It would be best not to at least, otherwise she'd be giving off a bad first impression. Noel hopes she's doing an alright job with that. Noel then looked up at the door Vanessa had to exit through; like Vistra, Noel also wondered what was going on with Vanessa. Same thing whatever Cinia went through? Something different? Can't really tell...not yet at least. Noel gently leaned against the side of the ladder that stood against the bunks and exhaled, "Honestly, I'm getting an 'unpredictable' vibe...yet a 'not surprising' one too. You get me? Like yea something bad is probably going to happen, but if we wake up in a pit of lava next I will seriously not be surprised. ...Or something like that," Noel shared her perspective on the place. "That just...seems like something that could happen...pfft I dunno," Noel shrugged.

@Tabitha
"I realize that I'm just a lab rat right now Echo. I'm not against it like I'm sure the others would be, but I want to know what it is you're doing to me is all." The young woman leaned back in the chair, lifting it on it's too back legs until she was just looking at the ceiling while she played with a piece of the chocolate, tossing it up and down in the air. With a blink at where she thought the camera to be she popped the piece into her mouth and slowly chewed on it before swallowing and licking her lips a bit. "It's good, strangely enough. But there has to be a draw back to it right? Maybe like those books, The Witch and Wizard series by James Patterson." She didn't realize it but she'd popped another small piece into her mouth again as the needle points of the sensors pulled at her skin and she closed her eyes again while she spoke. "It was addictive and they got kids to kill each other for it. I'm not really against killing people, but for a bit of chocolate it seems a bit much anyway."

Vanessa opened her eyes again, this time the orbs wide and her pupils enlarged. She could feel something buzzing through her veins but she didn't know what it was really. All she knew was that it was caused by the chocolate, or rather, something inside of the chocolate. Was this what she'd done to that armless girl who's name she couldn't remember?

Cinia sat on the floor now as she talked to the others. "I doubt anything sinister is happening, after all Echo seemed really nice!" Cinia said with a smile to the others. She hadn't realized that she had let out that she met Echo herself. "Anyways how are we supposed to become friends, we are going to need bonding experiences aren't we?" Cinia asked as she stood up. However the way she stood up was more like she floated up then put down her legs. Revealing her new psychic powers now.

"You're very smart, you know that? I didn't expect much of you, but now I've seen what you can be. And what I'm doing? I'm helping the world. You don't realize that right now, but you will later. That's all I can say. Go back to the others. There's more work to be done," Echo responded to her. Damn, she was clever. She'd have to be more careful of Vanessa.

"You can't save a world that doesn't want to be saved Echo." Vanessa said with a sigh as she leaned forward and pulled the sensors from her skin, leaving the chocolate behind and walking toward the door she'd come through in the first place. She licked the chocolate from her fingers as she stepped into the room and right into a conversation about her, though she shrugged it off and hopped up onto her bed regardless. "She's just delusional." Vanessa spoke after she'd sat down, her back against the pile of pillows near the back wall where she'd shoved them all as she settled back against the wall, watching each of the others more closely than she had before. They could be anything from friends to enemies to grudging allies within their confined space and she was determined not to be the last one to know anything; even if she had to hurt someone to find it.

"Alright everyone! Since your friend Vanessa has so kindly mentioned the book Witch and Wizard, I think it's time for more tests!" Echo said. She sounded...different. "Of course, Vanessa has to know about running through a hallway for food! But this time, instead of dogs, there are tasers! Because I'm that nice! Same colour room, white. So good luck! At the end of the hallway is food and water and a door to the next testing chamber which I will reveal after this test is completed! Tood-aloo!" She ended the message with a short laugh. Something strange had happened in the past five minutes.
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Vistra looked around at the others. "Um, something strange is going on don't you think? Not that this situation is already strange, but still..." she trailed off.

Alex considered Sasha's words.

"Well... I don't know what to expect. I think we should just go with this and hope it turns out okay. Say, is there anything to eat in this place? I'm famished."

Vanessa sighed and hopped off of her bed, already annoyed by the scientist woman though she wasn't going to argue it. "If you want food, you dodge. Hope you read the books all because it's looking like she's basing this place off it." The midnight black haired girl leaned over in a series of stretches before fearlessly walking over to the door and looking at the hallway. It was too back she'd never been good at sport, but hopefully the patterns were the same as the dogs in the books. "Hey Echo. Is there any of that chocolate at the end of the hall?" She crackled her knuckles and waited for her answer.

Cinia looked at the hall way. She was quite hungry and she wouldn't mind eating it. She then proceeded to start skipping through the hall way. "You guys need to stop thinking so much and just go!" Cinia said with a smile. Everynow and then she floated around, even dodging any tasers that came at her as she floated over them. She was now showing her new psychic powers alot more.

"Yay, tasers," muttered Alex, following the group into the hall. He was not an athletic type, and found it exceptionally difficult.

"If I weren't so hungry, this would be so much easier." He thought.

Alex decided to stop for a breather... which was when one of the tasers hit him in the chest.

"Vanessa. The girl that just came back."
"Ah. I see."
"And she pissed off Echo. And Echo made us run through a literary reference. For food. The food better be half-decent. At least. "
"Know the reference?"
"How am I supposed to know?"
"How did she know then?"
"Touché. Let's see... I don't get the reference."
"You only read the graphic novelization, maybe that scene was cut?"
"Or, it could be that I probably read it a long time ago? Did you take account of that?"
"...Touché. I forgot for a split second that you don't read nowadays as much as you used to."

Sasha walked towards the hallway where the food was allegedly kept. With the tasers.

"Wait. Did Cinia just float?"
"...I think she did it again...and again...and again, I'm pretty sure you just did."
"Vanessa said that Echo based this facility on the Witch and Wizard books... and we just saw someone float..."
"And I'm positive that we don't hallucinate."
"Wai- Wai- Wai- Wait. Wait. What."

Sasha's eyes opened with utter horror.

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MIGHT MEAN?!"
"Ok, me, calm down. Maybe Vanessa meant was the facility design and the... I guess I'll call them the tests?"
"BUT WE JUST SAW SOMEONE FLOAT!"
"True, and I don't see a gun that shoots holes that are not bullet holes, and I'm sure the alleged food isn't cake, or a lie, and whether or not Echo is actually an AI is uncertain, though I hope she doesn't flood any of the rooms with neurotoxin, she might use them to threaten someone though... I take my previous statement back... Yes, I do know what this might mean. Why and how though is quite uncertain."

Sasha looked at the tasers shooting electric sparks. "What material do you think your outfit is made of, and how thick is it?"

Sasha felt her dress. "Probably polyester. The dress and leggings, both are decently thick, like, it's not see-through. The shoes, leather."
"...Echo is (mostly) intimidating us. I still advise not to touch the sparks, but I theorize that if you graze a covered part of your body, you'll be fine. I suggest not to test it though, and I don't think that it works on the same area twice since that part of your clothes is probably burnt to a crisp. I neglect to say this, but I theorize that your biggest problem is not necessarily electrocution, but being burned by the heat. Protect your head and arms, and you'll come out alive. Not necessarily 100% A-OK, but alive. "
"Thank you me."

Sasha ran, hopped, crawled, and etc., etc., anything that helps her dodge the tasers until she was about a third of the way through the hall. She turned back for just a second to see Alex hit by a taser. Her face shows nervousness.

"Oh crud. What now?"
"Keep. Going."
"But-"
"You'll end up like him if you stop, and it'll probably be at your head. Echo or someone else will have to deal with him, but it can't be you now. JUST. GO."
"Got it."

She continued down the hall until she's almost caught up to Cinia.

Alex was knocked off his feet by the taser, but his clothes protected him from the worst of it. He saw one of the others- Sasha, he recalled- glance back, but she did nothing to help. Remembering how she had glared at him after asking about Cinia's arms, he came to the conclusion that she didn't like him much.

Getting back on his feet, Alex broke into a run. Passing the others, he dodged as fast as he could. Just short of the door, another taser hit him in the leg. He stumbled and fell, but skidded into the room. He was safe.