Adventure In The Dark
Tragedy 533 - Doesn't apply to me
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"Who's there?" derek said in a loud voice. The man shone the flashlight he had been holding onto Dorothy.
The sentence made Dorothy focus switch to him. He looked at the petrified Derek while staring at him without moving at all.
Dorothy. He was surprised not to play when he found his figure standing there while looking at him.
"You need help?" the question when he saw Dorothy was cleaning all the branches scattered on the ground.
He moved quickly toward Dorothy there. The old woman simply remained motionless while looking at him fixedly.
"You don't have to be afraid, I'm not a guard."
Derek without permission directly helped Dorothy gather all the twigs she got.
Dorothy just kept silent not responding. He began to try to calm down and took all the branches he had collected.
"T. thank you" murmured Dorothy quietly.
"Not a problem." Derek smiled knot. "By the way, where should we take this?"
"There. I live by the beach" Dorothy said.
"alright. I'll help you get him there." Derek carried all that and walked in the lead in front while Dorothy stepped behind him while continuing to pay attention to his figure.
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"It's the best meal I've ever tasted" Derek said with a deep smile. He devoured all the grilled fish Dorothy had created for him.
Dorothy just kept quiet and looked at him with teary eyes.
His face flashed a smile as he looked at the man who had helped him eat voraciously.
Derek stop. He then turned to Dorothy who had been watching him ever since.
"No. You're not bothering me at all" replied Dorothy who was still staring fixedly at him.
Derek smiled with relief. "Thank God," he said, then refocused on his food.
"By the way, thank you for helping me."
"No problem. Besides you seem to be in a lot of trouble, I can't bear to see it."
"Aren't you an evolver? Why do you feel sorry for me?"
"I'm an evolver, but that doesn't mean I don't have a heart."
"Evolvers don't have hearts. They even lock up, kidnap, and chase innocent people so they can be like them."
"That only applies to other evolvers. Not to me."
"Why could that be?" Dorothy raised her eyebrows.
Derek was silent for a moment. He was busy chewing his food while his brain kept weighing for stories to him or not.
"The chipset in my brain is always charred. That's the reason why I can act as I please, "finally while looking at Dorothy.
"That means you…"
"Yes, I can't control them. I also don't understand why the chipset in my brain is always charred. When I was a teenager, I had several surgeries even until my head hurt a lot. But the results remain the same, the chipset is always scorched because of the repulsion between the system in my brain and every component in the chipset they installed" Derek said. His face suddenly turned gloomy.
Dorothy was beside him. Both of the women's eyes were increasingly teary hearing his words. He could not imagine how tortured Derek's life was during his time in the laboratory.
"Then, how did you get out? Did they not look for you?" ask Dorothy lirih.
"I can get out because of Joe. My brother helped me get out. He's already exchanged my examination data for his" he replied.
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