The People

Histoire had been left alone in the light of a dim light on the ceiling with her thoughts and worries for a full two hours before she heard a sound outside the door. It could have been two hours or it could have been more, because to her it felt as though she had been in there for eternity. When she heard what sounded like the scraping of feet on there floor, she turned her upper body around from the floor and knocked at least three times on the door.

"Hello!... Is anyone out there?" She called out but she did not hear a reply. Instead, the scraping ceased and she heard nothing but silence once again. She was more frustrated now than worried about anything else. Nobody had come by the door until that moment and nothing had happened until then either. She could only imagine how alert the scientists back at the lab were. They were probably worried about their profits and her eyes rather than her anyway, so it did not matter much to her.