The sound of the ceiling light was the only thing keeping them company. Every other sound seemed to be either drowned out, or nonexistent. Lukas was motionless on the floor, watching the flakes come off of the ceiling, he has gotten to around 56,789 so far. Nicola wasn't doing too well either. He was coiling his hair over and over again, waiting for Lukas to do something different for once.
Just then, another tray of food comes crashing down right next to Lukas' face, it takes him a minute to process it, but he does flip the tray over and pick up his 5th piece of moldy bread. Nicola also comes over, and also takes his share. He then stops, and just stares at Lukas' dead pan face.
"Hey. You alive down there?" Nicola nudges Lukas with his leg, trying to get him to move already. Lukas pushes his own self away, and groans loudly.
"Yyyeahhhh…" He groaned, just wanting to be left alone until his body atrophied into dust. Nicola wasn't letting that plan go through though, so he was getting more and more pissy by the minute.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, they had been in there for about a day or two now. It could've been three for all they knew. The time spent there was just too boring and uneventful for them to realistically include it. So I made the hard choice of axing all of that and just getting straight to the point. I know, harrowing experience, I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. It will all make sense later, trust me.
Lukas rolls over, and finally decides to get off his ass for once. The process was slow though, it took him a minute just to lift his body off of the ground, and another one to get on his two feet. Nicola stopped caring after 30 seconds of watching him in slow motion.
After all of that, Lukas slowly walks his way over to the door, and starts to pound on it violently. That kind of shocked Nicola a bit, but then he goes over and does the same thing. With now both of them causing a ruckus, that would mean that anyone walking by wouldn't be able to ignore them. This plan seemed to be quite effective to their delight, since all of a sudden, the doors started to creak open once again. They both were so happy, they could finally remember what the outside looked like.
"Would you guys shut the FUCK up!" someone from outside interrupts the two of them. They both fall quiet, and wait to see who even said that.
The person in front of them had a lab coat on a name tag that said: Viktor Guðmundsson. He also had lab gloves on. Right next to him, was one of the officers that were everything in this palace. He stood still, with only his AR at his hips. His aura felt kind of warming, but also a lot more intimidating.
"Koma svo, krakkar!" Viktor said in a foreign language, whilst signaling for them to follow him right now. They do as told, and stay around one foot behind Viktor, while the gourd stays one foot behind them.
They winded through hallway after hallway, watching as the place seemed to just expand every turn. The cleanliness of the place also dropped in quality the farther they went. With how cobwebs were starting to show up more often, and the fact that there were some dead guards laying on the floor, probably sending a message not to defy us or else. Nicola seemed to be shaking a bit, but Lukas couldn't tell what it was for. He personally didn't feel to scared at the moment, but that was probably because of how desensitized he is of intimidation as a whole.
They made it to some sort of fork in the road with a little bit of uncomfortable silence. One route led into absolute darkness, the other kept going with the status quo. Guess which one they went down.
Lukas could barely see two feet in front of him. Luckily, his vision was adjusting fast. That didn't seem to be the case with Nicola though, since he was holding onto Lukas' shirt. Even though it did feel kind of uncomfortable, Lukas didn't truly mind in the end. The guard still kept a safe distance, but they both could feel them staring into their souls.
After a while of nothingness and tripping over random objects, they saw somewhere down the line, that a light was emanating from somewhere unknown from their point of view.
Lukas' eyes were about to go blind once they turned the corner. The light was just too bright for them to handle at the moment. Nicola also let go, just so that he could cover his eyes with his arm, since I guess he forgot about his eyelids at that moment. Lukas looked at Viktor, and saw that he was doing just fine at the moment, not even reacting at the nuclear bomb that was dropped a meter away from him. The guard though was dealing with the same problem as the other normal people in the group. He had a helmet on though, so it was hard to tell.
After a while they finally made it to the light. Viktor took the initiative, and opened the door. There, they could both faintly make out what seems to be a hospital bed. Lukas is the first one to take a step inside, letting the light around him almost send him to heaven. Then Nicola joins him, with water flowing out of his eyes in a desperate panic so he doesn't go blind. Viktor goes beside the hospital bed, and points for them to sit down.
They go over, and notice some weird stains all over the bed, they sit down anyway because why the fuck not.
"So…" Viktor doesn't know how to go on with what he was doing. "Do you guys have any idea why I brought you here?" He asks. Lukas and Nicola scratch their heads, trying to figure it out from context clues.
"What… is… the guard for…?" Lukas whispers.
"Usually he would be here so you wouldn't fight back…" He clarified. "But this one's here for a completely different reason…" Viktor pointed at him, and told him to take off his mask. Lukas and Nicola watch carefully as the thing slowly comes off of their head. They couldn't take the anticipation, and luckily for them, this big reveal was worth the wait.
"DREW?!" Lukas was shocked to see him in the officer's gear. Nicola also sort of remembered him being near Lukas at the time of their imprisonment. "WHY ARE YOU DRESSED LIKE THAT??" Lukas couldn't contain his shock.
"Hold on, hold on! I'll tell you everything that happened in a second! You just have got to give me a minute…" Drew says. Lukas and Nicola both sit up straight, ready to here about all of this.
"I got this gear while trying to set you free…"