Shea paused. The thick steel door of<span style="font-style: italic">the</span>room was just in front of her. The room Shea had only been in twice before. It was the room of horrors. The room everyone feared. She could only hope she was strong enough to take whatever was inside. A grim sanity had taken over her mind, a clarity she hadn't felt in years coming through. Her hand was on the door handle, turning, pushing in. In one simple action she released all her mental power at the seven people in the room. Three dropped immediately, their vacant eyes glazing over. Shea shuddered. Kill or be killed. The other four bolted towards her, grabbing at her. Her body was to weak to resist the pulling and the steel straps that clamped her to the operating table, but her mind was tearing at their defenses, ripping open layer after layer of their minds. They were not as strong as Dalia, or maybe it was Mira with the strong mental walls. Dalia was a human after all. Shea fought off the scalpel from one doctor, only to feel a syringe of something to paralyze her jammed in her leg. The doctors mumbled and quickly turned to Shea, their eyes hard. They started at her calf. Cutting away muscles and leaving her with to little to stand. Shea screamed. Her throat was raw from shrieking and her mind tired from her assault but she kept going. The doctors got to her thigh, her stomach. Just as they got to her left arm one dropped, him mind finally to tired to handle Shea's needling any longer. Another followed on her right arm. The last two were finishing at her neck when one fell. Only one left. Shea screamed as the man slapped her, telling her to shut up already. He fell a few seconds later. Shea wasn't sure why she was here. She knew she had to get out but she was locked to the table.her muscles were lying in a surgical waste bucket two feet away and she could barley move her arm. She probed the mind of one of the doctors. He knew the secret way out. "Silver will like this...Carmandia and Mira too..." Shea trailed off. She wouldn't be going with them...she couldn't even flex her neck muscles to turn her head when she heard the steel door open. Shea cried.