034: Technical Difficulties

[Daax]

I had never approached this room from this direction before, which is why I wasn't prepared for what I found when we were led from the darkness between the walls into this place. As soon as we crossed the threshold and my eyes adjusted, there was no mistaking where we were.

Segundus' play room. Not his laboratory where he led his long-term experiments and stored us stacked in rows for later use, but the place where he took his special projects, the ones he wanted close to his bedroom so that he could "play" with them whenever it suited him.

There is no way I will ever forget this place, no matter how long I live.

Vigilantly I stood by Ona's side, paying attention to the conversation as best as I could while my mind was assaulted with memories. The room still has that same sticky sweet smell of antiseptic and the faint stains from spilled blood and other fluids on the floors.

Standing here I can still feel the vices on my skin as they pulled my arms and legs apart and the s