Hope for improvement? None. [Complete]

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Characters: Rosette, Laharl, Kovu, Link, Valerie, Misha, and the random Dusks that ferry them in and out of their cells.
Content: A continuation of this thread. Experiments continue, with the subjects still baffled and increasingly hurt.
Setting: ?
Time: An hour or two after this thread.
Warnings: None so far.

Rosette barely felt it as the strange silver creatures dumped her roughly in her cell. Her mind still reeled with all the man in black had said and done. Was she...had she really done everything...for nothing?

No. No. It couldn't be...

She picked herself up as best she could and made her way over to the cell next to hers, where she still hoped Laharl would be. She was dimly aware of the people in the other cells, but Laharl was the person she knew best in this hell, and she needed some words of reassurance.

"Laharl?" she tried quietly. "You still there?"

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Kovu huddled against the wall of his cell, mostly ignoring the others at the moment. Their captors had pretty much left him alone for now, though he wasn't sure if it was because they hadn't gotten around to him yet or if they were just trying to make him go nuts worrying about their plans for him. The first option was probably preferable for him (although not for the other prisoners), since it meant he had some more time before anything exceptionally nasty happened to him. As for the second possibility, he was determined not to crack that easily. He was a lion, for crying out loud. They didn't get to be kings just because they could roar loudly from the tops of large rock formations. Not to mention, Kovu was an Outlander, which meant he was used to bad living conditions. At least there were no termites chewing on him.

He wasn't any closer to figuring out why they were all trapped there than he had been a few hours before, though. The others who had been taken had eventually been returned, usually the worse for wear. It seemed like they were being tortured more than kept for any reason that Kovu could fathom. It made him wonder if this organization was really just a bunch of psychopaths with unnatural abilities. They didn't seem to have any goals that he could make out. At least, none that made any sense.