Lillian


 * Genre: Horror **
 * Characters: A school teacher, a crime scene investigator **
 * Setting: An asylum **


 * “You can put down your hand now…” The voices told her. **
 * If you haven’t noticed, I don’t have one anymore, she told herself. **


 * It has been exactly 150 days since she was still a school teacher at Melbourne High School. She can barely remember anything from The Event. Good thing she is not allowed to talk about it, which saves her the trouble of explaining how she lost her hand to her new cell-mates. **


 * What she does remember was that the events that happened were not quite as horrifying as it may have seemed to the crime scene investigators. She was told that 834 students died, 182 were injured, but none of the teachers were left with any physical damage. She was also told that none of the teachers, nor the students, had a clue to what happened the night of the incidence. **


 * The crime scene investigator confided in her and several other teachers that the principal of the school fled for mysterious reasons. Despite the image of a traumatic scene, she was relatively at peace during the time following the incident. Well to be fair, she was in a coma. More like a trance, she thought. Even 150 days later, she still felt quiescent and at ease. She didn’t recall having a traumatizing event at all like what was reported in the news. It was all a blur really, she couldn’t recall any specific details, anybody involved, her friends, her enemies, no one. **


 * So as she sat in her cell, forever growing smaller, and smaller, as if it was slowly going to encompass, and suffocate her, just waiting for her to fall asleep so that it could do it, she thought back to the day where it all began. THe day that started it all. The incident that had changed her life, and thrown her into an insane asylum. THe incident that ruined her life. **


 * “Tell them”, the voices said **
 * “Tell them everything” **


 * And so she glared into the investigator’s eyes. And told him everything. **


 * “It was a hot day in the middle of summer, the way melbourne usually is in december, incredibly hot and disgusting. But of course I had to go to school. It was the last week of exams, and my stupid students were to be taking their biology exam that day. Yes, I am a biology teacher, I like biology, i like dissecting, I like animals. I like to investigate humans too. Scratch that, I love investigating humans. Which might explain the incident that happened later on that day...as you know already.” She said. She slowly lowered her head and glowered at her hand. The image of her hand that was once there. That was now gone. Gone because of her stupidity, and miscalculation. Gone because of her curiousity. **
 * “curiosity did kill the cat I suppose..” The investigator exclaimed. **
 * “but it was more than that. it was more than curiosity. it was desire. it was force. i was forced and i needed to explore” **
 * “explain. who forced you?” **
 * “everyone did. the way they looked at me the way they stared. the way they would whisper about me when i walked in the hallways. i couldn’t stand it and something had to be done. they had to understand what it was like. they had to understand.” **
 * “what did they have to understand?” **
 * “THE KRAKEN OF COURSE” **
 * “i don’t understand” **
 * “yes… yes you need to understand too. You need to understand.” **
 * “why don’t you start back from before the incident happened. you said you were investigating?” **
 * “OH YES. Investigating…. investigatinggg….the sweetnesss” **
 * “what were you investigating on that day” **
 * “well i had stumbled upon this document about cats see, it was this document and i didn’t know how to handle it. it had said restricted on the top, but i just HAD to see.” **
 * “what did it say?” **
 * “there were all these chimeras. they were half human half cats. I recognized some of the faces. They were students that I had expellled in the first place.” **
 * I thought to myself...i probably shouldn’t tell him too much. No. You must tell him. You must tell them EVERYTHING so they can seee. But its so cruel. so gruesome. TELL. **
 * The investigator looked at me, “what are you whispering about? is everything alright?” **
 * “no nothing. so these children were being experimented on, to be turned into cats. I dont know how i stumbled across this file. i don’t know how i did. it was just on my desk one day. but they were having issues. they were never able to fully combine the cat and the human, the human would always be too dominant. reject the cat, and then die.” **
 * “i see. go on” **
 * “i shouldn’t have read the file. because i knew the answer. i knew why the human was too dominant. see. there was not enough power.” **
 * “what kind of power?” **
 * “the electrical kind of course. the other kind of power doesn’t really exist in a democratic world.” **
 * “i see. so what did you do about it?” **
 * “so in the middle of the day, around lunchtime, i snuck into the electrical circuits. i rewired them so that i charged all of the school’s electricity to my classroom where I had set up the fusing machine that was described in the file. i captured a cat. and then i put myself into the machine.” **
 * “how did this cause the accident?” **
 * “well i didn’t realize that I had left one wire attached to the charging ports of the school. i also didn’t know that the machine was so extremely powerful. when i flipped the switch. all the electricity surged to the machine, blowing it up. it blew up and killed all of the people in the classrooms and hallways next to me. but it didn’t kill the people using their laptops in charging ports. the machine affected them too.” **
 * I looked down at my paw, the paw that used to be a hand. **
 * “so now you understand, curiosity doesn’t always kill the cat” **
 * “and tell me, what happened next?” the investigator asked. **
 * “well, I don’t know… I don’t know” my head was going round and round. **
 * “you don’t remember anything, anything at all” **
 * “no, no, no, NO!” I screamed. “my head hurts, ahh, my head hurts” **
 * “she’s out, take her away” the investigator said. **
 * Two men came and picked me up. **
 * “NO, NO, NO!!” I screamed. “THAT’S NOT ALL! I can tell more, I can tell more!” **