Winter Part 4

Days, weeks, months even years have passed, and she stayed inside the laboratory. White gown was her normal dress. White room was her normal surroundings. Beeping machine was her normal sound. Alcohol and medicine were her normal smell. Everything was just the same normal thing for her. After how many months of tolerating the pain, Aurora was immune to it. It became a part of her.

Aurora gained understanding of her mother's sudden illness. She was suffering from the same thing her mother had suffered. The sickness, her skin's paleness and her body were slowly thinning. She was deteriorating. She then realized that her injected medicine, was the same medicine they had given to her mother.

Every time they injected something to her, Aurora was already anticipating the pain that her body will suffer. The cold burning sensation that will flow from her whole body. It was the feeling as if she was burning alive.

Her flesh was so sore that she couldn't even move a muscle. Her voice? She couldn't hear it anymore. Her tears? They were still there, clinging on her eyes but they never fell.

Never again, after the very first day that her father had made her a guinea pig of a human tester of his poison drugs did Aurora cried for help.

Aurora was used to it. Different kinds of poison were tested by her body. Of course, there was always an antidote before she could die. But they will only give it to her after they finish to study the effectiveness and reaction of the poison to her body.

At 13 years old, Aurora saw the sudden change of her hair color. Where in the straight black hair, turned into grey. Aurora was so shocked that she started to panic and hyperventilate. After they calmed her down, they have explained to her that It was just the effect of the poison to her body. Her father though, wasnt happy at her outburst. So he punished her, by not giving her food for three days, resulting for her to feel the pain inside her like a scratching claw in her stomach. Aurora then learnt to never do it again. Her father had told her that her body wasn't hers anymore to react the way she did.

At 15 years old, Aurora's hair turned completely white. She was so scared at the effect of the poison to her body that she started to look if there are more of her body parts that were affected. Thankfully it was just her hair.

At 16 years old, Aurora lost her sight. But she never cried. She knew already that it was again the effect of the different poison her body was consuming.

Doctor Stanley had assured her that it will be okay and that she will be able to see again. She just listens to everything he said to her. He was the only person who talks to her nicely – the formal and proper talk.

Aurora on the other hand, learnt that it was better to stay silent and just listen. In that way, she was preventing herself to be punish if she ever offended someone.

At 18 years old, like what Doctor Stanley had said, after three months of new year, Aurora can finally see again. But no joy nor happiness in her eyes.

Unknowingly to others, she was feeling numb. It was like losing the sense of feeling and having an emotion. Unknowingly to Aurora, she didnt know that as her sight came back – the usual caramel color of her eyes did not.

Her father had prevented her to see herself in a mirror. Theres nothing glassy inside her prison room. So she couldnt really see her actual look.

At 19 years old, Aurora have seen another transformation on her body. Like the gowns and walls of her room, her skin became sickly white.

It was like the snow when she once saw it in her life. But still, the test continued, and the pain never ceased. Through out the years of having a poison in her body, she became weak and was always sick.

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