Sound of dripping water echoed in the interrogation room while the white light illuminated it. The dry air ran to bite the throat of whoever inhaled it. Naturally there were two chairs and one table made of polished wood and as usual on one chair sat warden and behind him still beautiful and elegant as ever stood silviya.
"Just what are you?" warden questioned squinting his eyes as if doing so will reveal to him the mystery of the boy in front of him.
*Silence*
"How did your injuries heal?" Warden asked again in a slightly more irritated tone.
*Silence*
"ANSWER ME" He shouted standing upright losing his composure.
*Silence*
It's been like this for sometime now, the questions from warden hung over the head of the boy in front of him like an executioner's sword yet the only answer he gave was silence.
The warden wanted to get a reaction out of him, either hate, fear or anger as people easily open up in the moments of intense emotion but the boy had the same look despite the warden trying to lure him. The same hollow look in his eyes.
But the most unsettling part wasn't the silence but his 'eyes'. "Dangerous" the warden whispered in a low voice, Those eyes of his which used to be brown were now deep luminous pink. 'How can the pupil's colour change?' he thought to himself. Those eyes were beautiful, charming in an eerie way
Then suddenly without a warning warden threw a punch towards him, it wasn't meant to hit him but it came so close that he should have moved backwards, should have yelped, should have been surprised, hell even a twitch of eyebrows would have been enough yet not even a muscle of his body showed any reaction. Even his breathing was leisure and the fist of warden hovered just milimeters away from him but still the same hollow look in his eyes.
Warden's fist retreated few inches slowly and then in span of less than a moment it went for his face again and this time it was meant to hit him hard but this time, K-013 tilted his head, just leisurely, the kind of movement you perform while doing morning exercise.
It had been so fast that even Silviya couldn't see it, she just stood there shocked, if she, one of the 'elites' couldn't react then there was simply no way the boy should have even see the punch coming.
Yet he not only reacted but dodged it like a predictable stone thrown at him. "Hah! There it is" warden scoffed, "D-did he just?" silviya stammered trying to confirm her suspision. "Read me and that too.....like an open book" the warden completed her sentence causing her brain to freeze.
A young boy who had not even seen a sunrise properly in his life, just now perfectly read the intentions of a battle hardened military official decades older than himself.
"Unpleasant, being read is deeply unpleasant" warden had reached the end of his patience, he had only given this much of his time and piece of mind to this prisoner since the prince, his highness wanted to hear K-013's confession from his own mouth but the warden neither could get anything out of his mouth nor could he prove him guilty, when the doctors declared him dead warden contacted the prince and told him about his death. The prince didn't say anything but he could clearly see the disappointment written on his face and so now he had no reason to keep prisoner K-013 alive.
Warden whispered something in silviya's ear, She ran outside and after sometime returned with a thick butcher knife. "Brat, be honoured" started the warden while walking upto K-013. "You know what what they called me back in the battlefield?" the warden now stood before K-013 grinning ear to ear.
"They called me-" the warden grabbed his hair. Raised the thick butcher blade. Strangely at that moment he finally captured a reaction from K-013 who looked scared and began to tremble. But warden had have enough timepass now.
"The Butcher" with a swift motion he separated K-013's head from his torso.
Blood began to pour out of the torso like a fountain from which the head have been severed. "Ah! This reminds me-" before he could finish the door shot open and officers rushed in screaming and panicked. "I don't remember giving the permission to enter" was what the warden would have said but he realized
'The gate should have been to the left then how come they are entering from the right side?' he thought and that's when he saw it, in his hand was not the severed head of K-013 but rather two arms gripped hardly together by his left hand.
And in front of him lay Silviya in a pool of her own blood missing her two arms convulsing and crying in pain.
"W-wh-what just-" he stammered
Warden stood there frozen while officers rushed and took Silviya to medical ward, then he looked towards him. Towards K-013 he was still there staring at warden and when their gazes met he.
He smiled
At that, Warden's Blood ran cold and he who had ruled over 'NARAK' for all these years like a king, for the first time felt 'Fear'. Not a momentary fear but genuinely scared, while the Warden refused to believe the reality, K-013 sat there with his deep pink luminous eyes shining under the dim light of 'urja patthar'.
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(Silviya's Point of view)
'Weird, no not just weird but unsettling' I thought uneasiness crept up to me.
Those eyes of his which were brown before now had turned deep luminous pink.
"Beautiful" I couldn't help but involutarily admit it. Those eyes of his were dangerous.
Before I could even blink however my lord threw a punch at that boy, it was slow for me but for anyone ordinary they would definitely be surprised, however that boy still showed no reaction as if he had known that the fist would not hit him. Now that's not normal. My lord retreated his fist but before I could even process the next second his fist was already beside his head, 'Did he miss?' I thought one moment but another moment I stopped because it was not my lord who missed but the fact that the boy dodged that with such perfect movement.
"D-did he just?" I accidently let my suspicion leak, my lord confirmed it. 'He read his intentions just now didn't he'. Then my lord whispered to me in my ear "Bring me my Knife" I notified the medical and cleaning staff to come to interrogation room while I picked up the war knife, my lord's treasured arnesal. When I reached the interrogation room all the staff stood outside the room waiting for their turn to begin. I gave the thick blade to my lord and backed off.
K-013 however remained still but at that moment those pink eyes momentarily shone a bit brighter and that's when my lord who had been walking towards him turned around and instead came upto me. He talked to me like he was talking to K-013, I saw his eyes at that moment, they were wrong, they felt unfocused and devoid of usual light in them.
Then with lightning precision his hand moved to grab me. I put my hands in front of my face to defend myself but his hand grabbed my both wrists and then he raised his blade. I was scared, I trembled, shouted him to come to his senses but as if his senses were covered with an invisible cloth and then "The Butcher" as those words were spoken, the next thing I knew that I lost the sensation of my arms and my vision blackened.