Wren only smiled at Benjamin, refusing to answer any questions until Benjamin told him about his own past at the research lab. Realizing Wren would not answer, Benjamin continued.
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Month after month, when Benjamin was at the lab, more doctors vanished. By the six-month mark, the facility was running dangerously low on staff, and the recruitment process began again.
Because he had proven himself indifferent enough for the work, they finally started giving him tasks more closely related to the research and granted him additional security clearances to enter areas of the lab he had been prohibited from entering.
His new assignment involved running and analyzing blood tests for the test subjects, checking for their pheromone levels, and drawing samples for a purpose they still hadn't fully explained.
