[center][h3][color=0054a6]Rei[/color][/h3]
[color=0054a6]"Alright."[/color] Rei stood still, completely unbothered by Sage's poisoned drenched words. Such tones had never really bothered him in the first place, even when coming from a figure of authority. His face was blank as he continued to stare forwards at the flickering flames, the sounds of the world all drowning out into the distance for him. His pale eyes merely watched the flames and the smoke intently, something oddly mesmerizing about them. He knew he needed to look away from them, but he couldn't find the power in himself to do so at the moment. 

Thoughts rapidly began to fill his mind as he watched, so many things he couldn't entirely keep up with himself. The ghoul- no... creature, that had entered the building was of immense interest. With a nose like Rei's, you learned a lot about scent. Certain things had a distinct kind of smell, like fire, ghouls, laundry detergent. And that stranger smelled off from the typical ghoul. He was going to completely blame the fire on this one, too. The smell of smoke, blood, and fear was too heavy in the air to really pick anything else out right now aside from the blatant smells you couldn't miss. But there was something strange about that ghoul and Rei wanted to know what it was, for better or for worse. Were they alike on the inside? Did that other ghoul have all the same parts he did? Were they missing a few screws? Maybe a few screws too many? Were all their organs in the proper places? Did they have extra organs? Did they have scars? If they had scars, where did they come from? Why? It wouldn't be too hard to figure out once he got whomever it was in his hands, all it would take would be one simple-

An image flashed in Rei's mind for a few moments, one he had seen quite frequently that left him standing up just a bit more straight with his head lowered. A large pristine white medical room, a tray set up perfectly for the next operation. Rei could distinctly smell the disinfectant and hear the silent hum of the machines in his ears. There wasn't anyone strapped to the table this time, but he could still hear the faint laughing now in his ears, a familiar voice speaking to him. Trying desperately to get him to pick up the surgical tools to do something to a body that wasn't even there.


[sub][i]"They are monsters. We need to learn all we can from them."[/i][/sub]

Rei mumbled something completely incoherent to himself.

[sub][i]"You? A monster? Oh, no, no! You are not a monster. You are Rei! You are a person!"[/i][/sub]

Some more soft mumbling as he took several quick steps back, away from the flames. The distant sound of long-since over screaming filling his ears as more bloody images flooded his mind.

[sub][i]"Ah, they are so ugly, aren't they? On the inside and on the outside too. No matter how much you cut them up and dice them, they are all the same either way." [/i][/sub]


It is here after the few words that Rei can distinctly recall turning his head to look over at the four other tables in the large room, corpses all cut up and ripped into bits- some pieces in jars while others remained discarded on the tables or in bowls. It was impossible to tell if they were human or ghoul at this point, they all just looked like chopped up bits and pieces to him.

Rei suddenly jerked a bit violently, freeing himself from his thoughts. His jaw was clenched so hard he wasn't sure how he didn't break several of his teeth, a few beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead but it wasn't because of the fire or anything. Sucking in a shuttering breath and slowly exhaling, Rei gave one firm shake of his head at the cursed flashbacks that being in that human lab had left him with. He knew the real answer to that thought, though. The real, honest to god answer to it. It was only now that he allowed himself to look toward Sage and faintly frown before turning around and quickly starting to walk elsewhere, not even giving word that he was leaving. A hand was quickly brought up as he rubbed at the dark circles under his eyes. It wasn't an uncommon occurrence for him to just up and leave, it wasn't as if he had been told to stay. Plus, some walking would do him some good right now. If he was actually needed, it wouldn't be too hard to contact him, it wasn't like he was hiding his presence or scent in the slightest.

This world wasn't a hard one to figure out. Everyone was a monster, everyone was ugly on the inside. Rei wasn't afraid of monsters, he was one of them, had been raised by a human one. Everyone he knew or had ever met was one of them.

What was truly scary were the actual people. 
What were actual people like?
How did they survive?
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