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Astraea
My name is I Astraea was five years old when my parents began locking me in a dark room. I had everything a luxurious bed, plenty of food, and toys but all I wanted was their love.
Astraea
(Sobbing and hugging herself)
Astraea
Father will come again, take me to his lab, and give me those awful injections. They’re so painful.
Astraea
(Hearing footsteps and a doorknob click, she crawls and hides under the bed.)
Thomas
C-83, Father's is here with food. Afterwards, well take another medicine. Where are you hiding my child?
Astraea
*That’s what he calls me. I’m his 81st subject. He’s experimenting on me. He doesn’t care about me; he treats me like an experimental rat.*
Thomas
C-83, come to father. let me see who dared to treat your wounds.
Thomas
You bitch! How dare you disobey me? Come out now, or else you know what will happen to you!
Thomas
(Grabs her hair and pulls her out from under the bed.)
Thomas
Tell me who put those bandages on you, or I’ll beat you again!
Astraea
Father, no one treated my wounds. I stole bandages from the lab.
Thomas
(Dragging her to her out on her room, still pulling her hair)
Thomas
You b***h! Stop lying! So you’ve never learned your lesson. Do you want to watch me kill someone in front of you again?
Astraea
* I chose the name Astraea. One of my father’s maids read me The "Goddess of Astraea" secretly, and I fell in love with the name. But when my father found out, he killed the maidright in front of me.*
Astraea
No, Father, please don’t kill anyone.
Astraea
(He didn’t listen. And he dragged me to the lab, made me sit in a chair and tie my body with metal chain, and began his experiment.)
Thomas
(I’m trying to invent a medicine that enhances eyesight, hearing, and healing abilities—something no one has ever done. I’ve tested this medicine many times on D-81, but the results have always been negative. But today, it will be positive.)
Thomas
He started to inject the medicine. The results-showing machine spoke, and the result was negative. These words made him angrier, and started hitting Astraea.)
Isadora
(A beautiful woman walks in, puts her hand on Thomas’s arm.)
Isadora
Honey, let’s leave this witch here. There are soldiers here to catch us. If we don’t leave now, they will catch us.
Thomas
Sh*t! How did they find us? Help me pack the documents. Besides, I was going to kill this bitch anyway; she’s useless. Let the soldiers’ bullets do it.
Astraea
Father! Mother! No! Don’t leave me! Take me!
Isadora
(Isadora shoots a cold, sharp look at Astraea. She picks up an injection, walks to Astraea, and injects the liquid into her neck. Astraea screams in pain.)
Isadora
Goodbye, bitch. You were never useful to us.
Isadora
(And they left, abandoning Astraea.)
Astraea
I don’t want to die like this. I want to explore the outside world.
Astraea
(She slowly drifts to sleep, but all she can feel is pain.)
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