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Chapter 4 - [COMMUNICATION TEST - SUBJECT 50-3]

[FILE NAME: COMMUNICATION TEST - SUBJECT 50-3]

[DATE: July 5th, 2009, 2:08 PM]

[LOCATION: Ravenside Site Facility 909, Interrogation Chamber 08, [REDACTED], Colorado]

[PERSONNEL NAME: Doctor Ria Smith]

[SUBJECT NAME/NUMBER: "Amy", #50-3]

[WARNING: The following dialogue contains highly sensitive information, resulting in the requirement of a Level 5 Ravenside Security Password. Any persons accessing the following dialogue using a stolen password or hacking software will be subject to extermination.]

[...]

[The room is plain and simple. Gray walls, gray ceiling, gray floor. All concrete, extending six feet outwards. The only exit is a 3 foot thick metal door, reinforced with titanium. The door cannot be opened from the inside. A 6 foot sheet of bullet-proof reflective glass on the far right side and three cameras in different corners of the room allow for easy, protected surveillance and viewing. In the middle of the room is a simple wooden table. Nothing on it but a pair of handcuffs- attached to said table with chain links- and a clipboard for noting observations or important details.]

[The door slowly swings open.]

[The first to enter are four heavily-armored and gas mask-clad security personnel, escorting a small child with long, gray hair, pale skin, and green eyes to the chair behind the cuffs. Once the child is seated, the handcuffs are slipped over her wrists, locked tightly, and the security personnel leave the room.]

[The second person to enter is a woman, one wearing a white hazmat suit. The child- a young girl, Subject 50-3- is wearing a gray, baggy, and militaristic jumpsuit.]

[The woman sits down on the chair opposite the child; her nametag reads "Dr. Ria Smith". A gas mask with a clear visor sits on her face- the Subject in front of her, this small, unassuming child, unknowingly and uncontrollably emits a poisonous gas from the pores on her skin.]

[Doctor Ria Smith]: Hello. For the sake of the recording, will you please state your name for me?

[Subject 50-3 "Amy"]: ...

[Ria grabs a pencil and taps the lead-filled end against the paper on the clipboard; not impatient, but ever so slightly irritated at the girl's silence. The Subject fidgets a little, clearly uncomfortable, but manages to answer.]

[Subject 50-3 "Amy"]: ...Amy.

[Ria writes the name down- this could come in handy later.]

[Doctor Ria Smith]: Do you know or remember your last name?

[The Subject fidgets again, silent, before she replies.]

[Subject 50-3 "Amy"]: ...No...

[Ria glances at the Subject. Her gaze quickly goes back down to the notepad as she writes "N/A" in the section detailed "Surname".]

[Doctor Ria Smith]: Do you remember anything other than these past two weeks?

[The Subject shakes her head in response. Ria jots that down.]

[Doctor Ria Smith]: Okay... can you tell me when people started falling asleep around you?

[The Subject's gaze goes to and stays on the table as she shrugs.]

[Subject 50-3]: I... I don't remember...

[The Subject flexes her fingers and wriggles her wrists around a bit; the handcuffs are likely uncomfortable and heavy for her, but they're a required precaution.]

[Ria stares at the Subject for a few moments before she speaks into the small microphone on the table.]

[Doctor Ria Smith]: No more information was acquired. Escort her back to her cell; I want both autopsy files on her parent's bodies.

[END_OF_DIALOGUE]