The days past by in a blur, Myrae could barely separate one day from the next, her life now consisted of waking up, performing tests for the guild that "Saved" her then going back to her room until she falls asleep.
It was hard to really tell how long it had been since she had gotten there, by her estimates it was at least a couple weeks since she first woke up but she wasn't entirely sure.
Even though her time spent here was boring and repetitive, it still beat living out in the Scarfront, she even got three meals a day, now that was something she had missed the most these past 6 years.
As she was eating her breakfast, which consisted of some strange grayish "porridge" with small amounts of synthetic fruit thrown in she heard her familiar hissing of her door sliding open.
To her surprise instead of one of the usual guards, a young women with bright red hair spilling down her back in a messy tangle and sapphire eyes highlighted by the dark black frames of her glasses walked into the room, her simple grey shirt hung low around her olive body as a white labcoat hung half off her shoulders.
Even without seeing her face to face properly before, Myrae recognised the women instantly, with a forced smile she spoke first.
"Well, if it isn't Director Hana, what brings you here this morning?"
The women stared back, an almost cocky smile plastered across her face.
"Morning to you to Myrae, well if you must know I'm here beacause today is a very special day."
"It's the day you finally become an official member of our Guild. Isn't that wonderful!"
Myraes eyes widened as she stared at her, suddenly her face contorted into a confused scowl before asking.
"Wait what? I thought I was already a member, that's what the guard told me when I first woke up?"
Hana simply shook her head before continuing;
"A member?! Are you serious, before today you were considered nothing more but a...resource for the guild to use as they pleased."
"However your results have been complied and as a result I would like to other you an official membership of the Guilded Thorn."
As she spoke she extended one hand out towards Myrae, gesturing for her to shake it.
"What do you say?"
Myrae was stunned, she looked at Hana then to her hand then back again as many thoughts circled through her mind.
*The hell did she mean by resource, did her life really mean that little to these people that they hadn't even seen her has fully human before this moment.*
*This bitch, does she really think she and the others who run this forsaken place can simply decide which lives are worth more than others simply by running some tests, I hate them, I wish I could kill them right now, but I already know better from last time...*
Almost Holding her breath in order to keep her bitting remarks from escaping her lips she reached out her hand and took Hana's in her own before firmly shaking it.
"Sure, as long as I get to leave this pathetic excuse for a room."
Hana simply smiled before letting go of her grip and turning to one of the guards behind her and grabbing a rather large box from his hands.
With both hands she present the box to Myare with a look of satisfaction in her eyes,
The box was composed of a smooth silver surface with golden twine wrapped around it to keep it sealed.
"Here ya go, this is your offical uniform and rank armband, please put these on quickly, we will be waiting outside for you."
Soon enough Myrae was left standing their in disbelief as she stood silently. Her Breathing tured rapid and short as she fell into her bed, the box layed out beside her.
Soon enough she would be free from this prison, and into an even greater one most likely but she didn't have the luxury of time to wait about and find out.
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It took some time before Myrae walked out of her room, Hana had gotten a bit worried that there newest member had hurt herself in some way, it wouldn't be the first of such a case afterall.
However her fears were for naught as Myrae soon excited the room, she was now dressed in a black polyweave bodysuit with golden highlights and the guild crest embroidered on the chest, a piece of clothing designed to maintain its shape during fusion and other transformstion abilities. As well as this a single piece of light grey cloth was tied around her waist.
Hana couldn't help herself as she looked at the figure of the young women before her, as well as this her familiar was draped over her back like some form of morbid cape, it's legs forming the collar of this macabre choice of fashion.
Hana regretfully pulled her eyes away as she began to walk down the sterile hallways. Speaking to 63...Myrae she said.
"It's great to have another person join our cause, that's a relief otherwise you probably would have spent the rest of your life down here."
'What a waste that would have been'
Myrae wasted no time in her response, her face plastered with a smile both happy and anxious.
"That's honestly the main reason why I joined, would hate to be stuck here for who knows how long."
"Enough about that, what's up with this waistband, is it some kind of weird fashion choice or something?"
Hana looked over and chuckled slightly.
"Oh no, nothing like that, the guild uses arm bands of different colours to differentiate the relative strength of their Bleeders."
"So as you may have figured out grey indicates the weakest and typical newest members of the guild, it tells people that your growth is currently a tier I or Situe stage."
The next tier is yellow for tier II, followed by orange for tier III, red for tier IV then finally blue for tier V . Of course there are more than just those for other members of the guild."
Turning back to face Myrae, she moved her labcoat to the side showcasing three colourful sashes tied around her legs, One orange, one grey and another a striking magenta.
"For instance, directors all wear a magenta sash or band somewhere on their bodies."
"Or how all true prisoners of the guild are forced to wear black markings like."
Turning back she got to the end of the corridor before long and beckoned Myrae to join her as they entered into an old elevator, waving at the guards as the doors closed infeont of them.
Hana simply kept smiling like nothing bothered her in the world, truth be told since clawing her way to the top of command here she had lost her fear somewhere along the way.
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Myrae took in her aurroundings as they walked the corridors for some time, on the upper levels the walls where much more decorated, with paintings and plants dotted around to fill the space of the dull grey colour of the wall.
Eventually though, they both entered into a rather compact office space, bookcases filled with loose papers and handwritten notes covered the walls with even some finding their way scattered across the floor, leaving faint crunching noises as they stepped.
Hana let out a breath she hadn't realised she had been holding as she walked towards the desk, sitting in the large black chair on the for side she layed back, putting her boots onto the desk, crossed her legs crossed over one another.
"Right so there's only two more matters we need to discuss before your allowed on any expedition teams."
Leaning back further she continued,
"Firstly your results, as your well aware we have been performing numerous tests on yourself and your familiar to figure out both your abilities and you'd capacity for growth "
Myrae nodded calmly as she took a seat opposite to Hana
"Let's start with your ability, from what we gathered your passive allows for you to gaze into both worlds simultaneously granting you the ability to see the entirety of reality instead of what's infront of you, allowing you to see disturbances caused by powers of equal strength or less than your growth. This sounding right so far?"
Myrae leaned back herself looking up at the lights above she answered,
"I guess, sounds about right to me. Now what about my active ability then? You manage to figure that one out then?"
Hana stared at her as her smile krept further across her face,
"That abiljty is a real piece of work, I mean it too, it's the main reason why you were brought on board in the first place."
Sipping the remnants of a long cold drink on the table Hana spoke again.
"From the data we gathered we are confident in the idea that you have the power to nullify other Howlseed type abilities of less than or equal power to your own. Pretty impressive."
Myrae nearly chocked on the air she was breathing as she heard that, she had never heard of a complete nullification ability before, sure there was suppressing abilities but they only weakened or limited other abilities at best.
*With powers like these... next time I see Her I'll be able to... no even then that's still too far in the future.*
Hana studies for gaze for a few moments then once again continued talking.
"Now as to the second topic, since this growth doesn't fit the criteria for any previously known, you are given priority and the privilege to name your abilities yourself."
Myrae paused for a moment at Hana's words leaning further back she began to think, before the words suddenly came to her. She smiled as she thought of the names she would choose, as they reminded her of the family she left behind many years ago.