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Seraphina

"You shouldn't have riled him up like that."

Two girls were hurdled against the metal bars whilst the other one was backed up in the wall, totally hidden by the shadows.

"He isn't... kind." The one on the left spoke, her voice super cracky and shallow.

"Code 1069, is right. You should have just tried to speak, Code 009."

Code 009, looked up at the girls, staring at them blankly as ever.

She couldn't stand their attitude. It wasn't the first time, they had tired to make her talk. Since the day they both---the new codes, had arrived in her cell a few months back, they had non-stopped asked her to escape the hell, but all she did was nod and shake.

"Code 009, I know you have a name Seraphina and so do we. Maybe, we can try talking to each other without our code names and we'll tell you ours? But oh wait, let me tell you already, I'm Valerie, Valerie Kozlov, age 9."

"And I'm Lola Pierce, age 15."

Seraphina nodded, acknowledging their hard-work of coping up with her, because