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“Were supposed to retrieve how many bodies?”
“Four.”
“Won’t they be a bit…malformed”
“Are you questioning the Watcher?”
“No.”
“Pull them out.”
“There were only a few bodies salvageable and even then I don’t think these could even be used..”
They sighed as they clicked on their recorder device pulling out a note and watching into the room in front of a thick layer of protective glass protecting them from the radiation-ridden bodies or sludge buckets laying on metal beds if they weren’t just a pile of muck of melted flesh and bone.
“I doubt any of these sinners are salvageable…With how our physicians are looking them over there are only a few intact for the Watchers games..Going to take a whole lot of stitching..and organ replacement..”
They paused as they glanced over the panels in front of them each displaying less-than-optimistic diagnostics most of the sensors could pick up the faint pulses of some of these sinners the others were just purely lost causes and now we’re going to be disposed of
.“The right amount of subjects have survived they just need to make it threw the night and not have some motor function and they’ll be ready for the Watcher.”
.“Phil!” Sneeg called out to his elytrian friend the old one’s wings folding close to his body as the inchling climbed up them holding onto a loose feather to keep later as he scurried up the man perching on his shoulder looking down from the plateau into the center of there village there home suspended in the sky above a deep lake the morning fog still lingering above it.
This never got old well Phil did but that was beside the point, Sneeg’s wings fluttered as he exhaled closing his eyes as they both just took it all in.It was nearly religious how they did this every morning just for the beautiful view.
“Hey, mate?” Phil spoke up as he looked off into the sky the sun slowly rising above the mountain range Sneeg glanced up at him his head tilting as he leaned forward flinching suddenly at the sight of vast blank space where his friend’s face was supposed to rest instead swirled a void and an eye which turned to him before he could even react he was cupped in Phil’s hands forced to stare at the vast void. “What?.. What the fuck-” Sneeg squirmed wincing as Phil’s grip nearly crushed him.
“You can’t even remember my face can you old friend?” Phil spoke his voice now having a deep echo that grated into Sneeg’s ears as he grimaced wincing Phil just chuckled the eye squinting in an attempt at a grin“I thought you were stronger..You were supposed to find me…I’m still lost and you’ve given up?”Phil spoke as he stood up Sneeg in hand as the inchling internally panicked.
“Phil, what the fuck are you on about? Phil?…”Sneeg panicked as he struggled in the man’s grip staring up into the eye as he tried to calm himself,
This was just some weird dream, right? But the more he stared at Phil he noticed he was..melting? Oh fucking gods he was the skin around his hand that held him was slipping off the flesh as black ooze dripped out from the barren flesh he felt like he was going to puke as he was forced to watch his friend go from the one he knew to a somewhat humanoid black blob. He finally noticed he had started to sink into Phil’s…Is this even Phil anymore? No..The creature’s hand was quicksand as he felt himself sink into the black ooze and flesh of the creature that piercing eye staring at him as he struggled like a mere bug under its grip
“Welcome home Sinner.”
.“Something has gone wrong in the lab a few subjects woke up way earlier than scheduled some scientists presume the radiation has accelerated their healing a few have broken out already even in their fragile forms still rebuilding some have managed to take a few lives but we proceed with the Watchers plans regardless…They’ll be released to their teams to balance out the games ahead we hope as long as their radiation levels stabilize out do not instantly melt those other sinners around them..End of report day three.”
They sighed heavily as they clicked off their recorder grimacing at the clean burned slash threw their side as they slumped over against the nearby wall dead.
Workers didn’t last long.
.A loud shriek rang out through the forest as a figure slammed down onto the forest floor writhing as it struggled to gain balance coughing a vicious green liquid as it stumbled up onto its shaky legs once assuring its bones wouldn’t give out it started to make it way into the nearby clearly any small living plant left nearby wilted as it stumbled out into the light hissing as its eye closed the light of the sun hurting its fresh new eyes.
Scratching at its skin as it peeled and flaked off the new tender flesh underneath stinging at the open fresh air rough labored breaths as it- No He took in the fresh air that his lungs tried to reject as he coughed clearing up the flem or what he hoped was flem in his throat a burning feeling lingering on his body as his eyes adjusted to the light he gazed into the day sky stained a putrid green he stared heavy ragged breaths.
The lingering buzz on his mind had calmed down as he focused in on it all the wind blew against his slowly closing wounds, the crack of his bones as he walked hearing them pop and readjust into place, the pop of his spine as hardened into place once more.
It’s a nice day today.
At least until he finishes molting.
Then he’s hungry.