Note 4.1

hat was pretty close, wasn't it... I don't think I would have survived a single containment period in there. It's a dreadful place, but you don't get it. I can't live in there again. I'm not strong enough. It reminds me of how I met Thyme, which might sound like a good thing, but it's quite the opposite, actually. Next section is most likely gory, please keep that in mind.

I had learned how to pick lock my cell's door. My hallway section was rarely guarded, since they moved the "behaving" ones there. No, I didn't behave or adhere to their rules. I just know how to hide actions and things. Besides that, the guards were always really easy to manipulate or bribe. I'm not proud of it, but I was contained for no apparent reason other than some weird belief that we are inferior because we are different? Dunno, pretty stupid. If you ask me. So yeah. I don't think Thyme was as lucky as me. They're a water human, so they need plenty of water to stay healthy and happy. I'm not just talking about drinking it like other variations, including myself do. I mean full submersion regularly. They need to go for swims regularly, like once a day or something like that. Our section barely even had a proper shower. They collapsed on the cold, hard hallway floor a few times. The guards always showed up, just to watch them. Nothing else, no help or anything. Just standing over them. They decided to leave one day, so I took a leap of courage and opened my room's door and pulled them into it. They had slammed their head against an edge, and it was bleeding. I took my upper clothes off and wrapped their head in it. I also dropped some of my water on them(I had found some big canisters full of it while exploring the other day) and waited for them to come back to conscience. I remember being surprised by their skin's reaction to the water I spilled on them. It just absorbed it, turning slightly shiny right after. It covers itself in a thin layer of fat(Not sure about this. Grain of salt.) when hydrated, but I didn't know that back then.

They woke up a few fractions after. I fully expected them to panic and attack me after realising their position, but the opposite occurred. They sat up and glanced at their surroundings. Then they turned to me and just asked me what my name was, and why they were with me. I didn't have a name back then(Besides a weird number) so I just chose one that I liked. Lavender. They nodded. pretty name, they thought. I just asked them back because I didn't really know what you'd usually do in this kind of scenario. We ended up discussing the facility for a small while, and decided to meet regularly. I also showed them where they could get water from. It just kind of evolved from there.