Pat Hogan, the eleven year old child test subject.
It was finally time.
There was a sudden change in atmosphere in the training center even someone as dull-witted as Pat could sense - or perhaps it was the sudden dissonance of all the training machines and chattering simultaneously drowning down to silence - as the footsteps reverbrated throughout the island. The metal forced to clang by the stampede of footsteps was a small noise on the other side of the wall but it sounded really loud with all activity frozen in here but those, too, came to a sudden stop right outside the building as peculiarly as they started. Then silence.
Pat caught a movement from the side of his eyes but before he could follow suit in order to ask what they were doing there was a loud voice. It was a grown up's voice, which meant it was one of the officials; how did they have such a large voice though? Pat stood there, rigid from head to toe as the official talked. Perhaps it was a subconscious act, knowing from past experience that if he gave them even the slightest doubt that he wasn't listening to them they would punish him. Instead his eyes slowly swept around to find the person who moved earlier. It didn't take long for him to locate her, and as he observed the girl a name popped up in his mind; Mya, if he remembered correctly. She was hugging the wall as if she was straining to listen to the voice even more. Pat's mind reverted back to focusing on the official's speech. He could vaguely make out the words, muffled by the walls despite the volume, but he caught words like 'training center' and 'dining hall'. He thought back to when he was first brought to the island; was he given such lectures before? He gave himself a mental 'no', wondering what was going on.
Pat found the courage to move again only after the official's voice drowned to an end. He walked swiftly and as quietly as he can, not that he was capable of being quiet at all, towards the training center doors, planning to get a peek at the newcomers for that was his main intention; learn about the new prospective of friends he could make. Were they older than him, or perhaps younger? stronger or weaker, boy or girl? His breathing accelerated a little as he felt the excitement build up, making the muzzle grumble as it worked faster to filter out the infectious agents streaming from his breath. He pressed to the door, a hand on the handle and, after a pause and a quick look around the room, - he didn't forget to give a hand wave when his permanently-angry eyes met others - proceeded to open the door a crack very slowly.