Eva gathers the photo and places it back in the folder before getting up and leaving the room herself heading back to the room the others were in She immediately turns to General Mort holding the file out to him. “What was the meaning to this? Why are we asking my subject such strange questions!?”
Mort takes the folder from her. “As I just finished explaining to your superior, the incident the subject saw was in fact an event that happened that night. We intended to capture the leader, but in the end ended up with the female instead. The leader we were targeting ended up escaping and now, search as we might, we cannot locate him or any other members of the Raven Wolf tribe.”
Eve frowns at the information, it was indeed common knowledge that the government military was actively dealing with the many tribes of wilds -groups of individuals that did not give into the domestication process and chose to continue living in the wild- that lived outside the city. “Raven Wolf? This is all about a pack of wilds? How does a tribe of wilds relate to the end of the world?”
Mort glares down at her. “At this point we don’t know, but I think that it’s in our best interest to find out!”
Eve stares at the jackal for a moment longer, she now beginning to question him about the event that her subject had apparently seen. “What exactly happened last night…? From the way that the subject described what he saw… it sounds as if this was an arranged meeting between the two parties, but then something went terribly wrong.”
Mort crosses his arms. “It was a mock peace treaty, meant to trap and capture the leader of Raven Wolf.”
Eve seems confused. “Why would you need to think up such a scenario? How hard can it be for the military to catch a few wilds?”
Mort narrows his eyes turning away from her and leaving the room, obviously very insulted by the comment, Eve watches him leave not entirely sure of what she had said wrong. She looks back to her co-workers, they simply shrug their shoulders at her, not knowing anything about it either.
Eve’s boss speaks up. “While you were questioning the subject we received new orders regarding him. They need him moved to another facility; we can’t keep him here anymore.”
Eve looks a little confused. “Why? I mean… it’s not that big of a deal I guess… this is a really high security facility and it seems kind of excessive to keep him here, I mean I honestly don’t believe he’s capable of even hurting a fly, but of all times to decide to move him why now?”
“Do you really want to know what the military is thinking? I’d rather just follow the orders given than get into all that complicated stuff. The only thing that’s concerning me is that the facility they want to transfer him to is an hour drive from my house, and that’s not including rush hour traffic. Do you have any idea of how much earlier I’m going to have to wake?” He lets out a sigh. “I just moved to an apartment near here too so that I wouldn’t have to drive more than five minutes to work. The irony of this situation is killing me.”
Eve stares at her co-worker, although she was interested in what was going on both him and her boss looked like they could care less. The subject had finally seen something, perhaps not what they wanted but it was indeed something. Something like this should be perused and questioned! Not let left alone like some mundane everyday occurrence!
Eve leaves the room looking down the hall she knew lead to the quarters that their subject was staying in, she beginning to walk down them.
Before long she finds the room she is looking for, the grey wolf that always escorted her test subject to his room now sits on a chair outside the room. He looks over to her a little surprised to see her. “You need Yula again so soon? Did you forget something?”
Eve stares at the grey wolf a little confused. “Yu-la…?”
The wolf nods his head. “Yeah… you know… you guys question him every day, he lives in this room here. You know… Yula.” He stares at her a little surprised. “That’s his name… you know that right?”
Eve flushes, holding her hand to her face to hide her embarrassed expression. For the five years she had been working here she had never bothered to ask or even learn her subject’s name. “Oh I… of course… Yula…”
The wolf frowns at her. “You didn’t care enough to bother with his name, just like everyone else on the project.”
Eve stares at him not sure of what to say, an announcement plays over the buildings intercom breaking the awkward silence. “All available security personal please make your way to the north hallway on the fifth floor.”
Eve frowns back at him, it was true that she had not known Yula’s name, but that really wasn’t her fault, no one else she had worked with had ever cared to mention it to her, in fact neither of them probably knew it either. She was there to do her job regarding the subject nothing more than that. “Look, I’m just here to do my job, it’s not that I didn’t care I just… I don’t know… I mean I’m here to work… and learning his name just never came up.” She shakes her head looking back to Mr. Conner, not letting him side track her. “Look that’s not why I came here! What the subject saw wasn’t a dream, he witnessed something that happened last night. Did you let him out? Did he escape? How did he see all of this happening?”
The grey wolf looks insulted by what Eve is saying. “Look here missy, I’ve been Yula’s military guard for seven years now and not a single time have I let him out or allowed him to escape! I do my job and I do it well. He had a legitimate vision, he saw this all in the dream he had.” He looks back to the room Yula is in. “Sure I don’t keep him in the room all day, he’s gotta wander around or he’d probably go crazy, but he’s never left this facility and when he’s out of his quarters I’m always by his side.”
Eve places her hands on her hips. “Alright than Mr. Military Guard, what triggered this dream of his then? You telling him stories of being in the military? Maybe you were there when it happened and relayed the information to him.”
The grey wolf gets up from his chair, now very annoyed. “You listen to me and you listen well, I don’t work out on the field anymore, my job is to stay here and make sure nothing happens to your precious test subject! Sure maybe I get bored and tell him a few things, think about it neither of us have anything better to do, but nothing I ever said to him before triggered even the smallest dream. As for the event that happened last night, I wasn’t there or here, my shift is over at seven, Anderson takes care of the night shift not me, and he wouldn’t even think about letting Yula out.”
Eve stares at him with her arms crossed; she finds that hard to believe. She didn’t for once believe that the test subject could actually have visions of things that were happening, even less did she believe that he would actually be able to see the future.
The black wolf approaches the door of the room he is in, he looks over to the grey wolf, speaking up to get his attention. “Come on Teddy, Don’t get angry just because she’s rubbing your fur the wrong way. She’s just doing her job, checking out all the possibilities. Just like the soldiers that came before her.”
Eve frowns at the information. “Soldiers already came to speak with you about this?”
The grey wolf looks back to her. “Yeah… you’re not the only one that thinks I let him out against my orders.”
Yula looks out the window of the door of his room, his eyes moving towards Eve. “You must excuse Teddy, he’s going through a rough time right now. You see after going through the drill with his superiors he was told that I would be moving to another facility. Teddy doesn’t get to come though, he has to stay here because they need him to keep working at this location. I’m going to be getting a new guard when I arrive there.”
Eve looks back to the grey wolf. “Teddy…? That’s your name?”
Teddy nods his head. “Yeah.”
Eve laughs under her breath turning away from him. “It’s so cute! I never would have though a member of the military to have a name like that.”
Teddy growls in annoyance. “Do you actually have a legitimate reason for being here or did you just come here to harass me!? Honestly what did I ever do to annoy you? We’ve never even talked to one another before now!”
Yula laughs at Teddy’s reaction. “Take it easy Teddy, I’m sure Professor Cadrey didn’t mean any harm.” He looks back to Eve. “Look… about that dream I had that everyone is talking about. It wasn’t anything I had seen or even something anyone’s told me. It was just a dream I had last night, nothing more complicated than that.”
Eve sighs to herself as she stares back at Yula, it definitely a lot more complicated than he realized it to be.
*******
It is much later in the day, Eve sits at her work computer staring at the screen in front of her as she read over the files of Conner and Anderson, the two guards responsible for looking after her subject. She sums up the information she had reads to herself. “Anderson’s been working here for thirty five years now, and has a spotless record. He’s always worked the same job, so he wouldn’t have any interesting military stories that he could possibly tell the subject.” She takes a mug off of her desk drinking some hot tea. “Conner on the other hand… he’s been in the military for nine years, two years he worked out on the field… but he ended up getting injured while on duty, these injuries prevented him from continuing that field of work. Since then he’s been stuck playing guard dog at the facility.”
She rests her head in her left hand as she taps a pen she is holding against a photo of Teddy her computer monitor was displaying. “If anyone let my subject out to see this event it would more likely be Conner than Anderson… but Anderson is the one that works the nightshift not Conner.”
She sighs to herself turning her chair away from the computer. “Why is this bugging me so much!? I’m sure the military is already riding everyone involved so the culprit isn’t going to be unknown for very long at all.” She sighs to herself, she had to admit she was pretty excited about her subject possibly finally seeing something so learning that was possibly nothing but a farce was pretty disappointing to her, wanting more than anything to find the person responsible.
Eve turns her chair back around facing the monitor once again, even after trying to convince herself to do so she still couldn’t drop the subject. “Ok, so even if one of them did let the subject out, it’s not like he would have been able to leave the building, this place is an extremely high security facility, he probably wouldn’t have even made it down the hall.” She frowns, everything still pointing to the unbelievable. “Could he really have seen all of this in a dream…?”
Eve’s boss enters the room speaking up to get her attention. “Miss Cadrey, the military is ready to begin moving subject #1502. Your attendance is required.”
Eve nods her head, closing the windows she had opened on her computer and getting up to leave. “I’ll be right there.”
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