@AnnieTimeNow@Aquanthe@HecateProxy@KimmiNinja@Utrax@CyanideSweetie@wolverbells@SheriffLlamaEveryone slowly filtered into the auditorium, mostly sitting apart although not at complete opposite ends of the room. Now that they had all spoken there was less mutual suspicion going on, at least for the most part. By the time Arthur arrived Athena and Cassius had already sat down and were talking, although the conversation looked pretty stilted. Choosing not to interrupt he walked down the aisle and then slipped into a row mid way down that was currently unoccupied.
Not long after the final members of the group filed in did the research lady from the previous day bounce her way in, a wide smile across her face."Good morning, all! I hope those of you who stayed here last night got some rest, although I understand it might be hard to begin with under the circumstances."
She spun her clipboard up into her hand and glanced down it, nodding to herself and muttering as she ran through whatever was on it. "So first things first, we need to take some quick blood samples from you all to see how much the medicine is slowing the progression of your mutation. We need to finely tune it to each individual so that it moves at a safe and controllable pace. After that we'll break for a quick snack and a drink, get your blood sugar levels back up, and then we'll be doing some basic fitness trials."
The projector clicked on as she pressed a button on the remote, hitherto hidden in her lab coat pocket. Pictures of a small gym appeared on the screen with lots of monitoring equipment around the fitness machines. Mostly they looked to be cardio focused machines but there were a few weights available by the look if it as well."There is a gym you can all use at your leisure but we'll be using smaller rooms to conduct individual tests for now. You'll be partnered with a trainer who will take some baseline stats from each of you so we can monitor any drastic or sudden changes in your body's makeup or activity."
She clicked again and the projector turned off. A group of individuals, not wearing biohazard suits like the first lady, walked into the room and stood at the front just behind her. Gesturing to them, a mix of men and women in their early thirties, at most, the lady in the lab coat smiled."These will be your trainers. They'll be with you throughout the process so we can get consistent results on any changes going on in you. They've all been through this before themselves so they'll be immune to your illness."
Clapping her hands, she pranced away and out of the room, leaving the new tutors with their dazed pupils.
One of them, a man standing at least a towering 6' 7" with a broad chest rippling with muscle under a tight shirt and shorts, stepped forwards with a clipboard that looked comically small in his massive hand. He glanced at it then cast his gaze across the room, storm grey eyes falling upon Arthur."Arthur Seymour. You're with me, come."
His accent was a thick Russian one and although he spoke fluently his tone was clipped and short; commanding. Arthur stood up without protest and followed the huge man out of the auditorium's main doors and up the hallway to the right, previously locked, and then into another corridor with several doors along it. None of them were labelled in any discernible way but the hulking giant of a man before Arthur seemed to know precisely where he was going and walked halfway down the corridor before pushing into a room exactly like the one the lady researcher had shown them before."We'll do the blood test first, then you have a break. Then we come back and do some exercise."
The man lifted up several electrodes that were laid out on the running machine to show Arthur. "We'll use these to get a baseline for you. After that we keep track through cameras and sensors in the facility as well as regular check ups. Understood?"
He was business like in his approach, not cold or uncaring, but efficient and he seemed like he was itching to get on with things.
For Arthur that worked perfectly so he nodded, sitting down on the chair the man gestured at and rolling up his sleeve to expose his arm. He hadn't really had to have blood tests taken before, although he'd given it plenty of times, but he was surprised with the care the huge man took in fitting the strap higher up his arm and then in choosing a healthy vein. Quickly he drew two vials of blood before handing Arthur a cotton ball to blot the small hole and then a small circular plaster to put on once the bleeding finished."Get a snack and drink lots. We have water but nothing else in here, could interfere with the results. Come back in... twenty five minutes and we begin."
The man opened the door and gestured for Arthur to go, which he did, although once he was back in the main corridor with the auditorium a bit further down he wondered how he was meant to know which room to go back to. 