Experiments

[Nox]

Alistair hadn't gotten far before he felt a cold chill run down his spine. What was that? He asked himself.

The strange sensation made the scientist turn around towards his quarry. She was tied up and should be fine, but something told him to get back, to check on her. Had the glass broken? It shouldn't have...

Alistair thought of all the things it could be as he walked back to his enclosure and checked the locks. Everything was fine on all the doors. He opened the one with the girl. The only one that didn't have abominations - soon this one would house one too. Soon she'd be the first human in his new batch, new concoction. Soon, he'd have his super soldier and a lot of lucky accidents.

The latch clucked into it's final unlocked position as Alistair pulled the heavy door to him. The woman was sitting upright, her wrists bleeding and her legs were freed too. "What? How?" Alistair didn't waste a single moment before he grasped at his hidden resource - the dark light in his mind. He wrestled it into submission. The moments it took to get it under control were becoming fewer and fewer between. He'd finally learned the secret of wielding it without distraction. But it had been a perilous journey. A journey he'd not wish to ever undergo again.

The power cascaded around him and he drew up a barrier of earth around the girl. The ground shook as spires of earth erupted around the pretty little blonde. Immobilization was his goal. But he wondered if he should encase her head or allow her to see her destruction coming...