"Light sensitivity check positive."<br/>The hand, moving a small flashlight in front of her eyes, finally disappeared. Her pupils dilated at a stammering speed when the bright lights on the ceiling were lit. White, desensitized, painfully stripped of anything that would make them interesting.<br/>"She's coming to her senses." the same voice spoke up once more. It had a velvety, calming quality, yet sounded quite young.<br/>"That's good. It looks like this one works the best on her." another voice replied to the silky baritone.<br/>"We can't yet say, Roy. Another week will be needed to clarify the entire extent of the modification and the changes, but what is for sure is that her body accepted it. After analyzing the blood sample, it appears that she's more vampire than human by now." a light chuckle drowned out his words. "The typical light red structures have begun forming in her veins and replaced over 50 per cent of her original red blood cells. The density of her muscle and bone structure has grown as well."<br/>"But what about that... Thing on her back?"<br/>"That... We have yet to see."<br/><br/>She has adapted. Her body accepted the essence, and changed. The once porcelain-like skin gained an unhealthy pale tone, eyes turned pitch, obsidian black from the once warm chestnut they used to be. But Toshee wasn't unhappy about that.<br/><br/>Toshee didn't remember anything. As far as she knew, she has always been in this lab. The lab was her home and these people in white were the only ones she knew. That were the scattered thoughts on her mind as she awoke in a brightly lit laboratory, hardly dressed, and stretched on the cold surface of the table like a guinea pig, prepared for examination.<br/><br/>"Good morning, Toshee." the scientist with a hypnotizing, smooth voice spoke up to her, smiling a little. "I have good news for you. You are adjusting very well to all the adjustments. The last serum that was inserted into your blood and bone marrow was not rejected by your body tissues. Your bone and muscle display a 60% higher durability than human, but it appears that the bonds between them have become more flexible. I will only need you to do the practical examination before we can conclude the early results, and then you will have to train for the following week to see if you're getting on well. Your body should further develop." he informed her, a calm, professional smile on his face. "Now, slowly sit up."<br/>Toshee did just that. Slowly raised to her elbows, black hair falling out of her face, to gradually shift into a still position, sat amid the table.<br/>The other man, Roy, with a mane of unruly curly brown hair, encircling his head like a halo, stepped towards her. One of the 'practicals', as she called them. They weren't as much scientists as they took care of the subjects - subjects like her.<br/>"Raise up your right arm."<br/>Her right arm flew up into the air, straight before her.<br/>"Do you feel anything unnatural? Slow muscle response? Any pain, pressure or stiffness?"<br/>She shook her head.<br/>"Now left arm. Is everything fine there as well?"<br/>She repeated the motion, and nodded. All is fine.<br/>"Very well. Now, come off the table and stand here, about a meter away from the wall." Roy pointed at the clear white wall to the left of him.<br/><br/>Toshee sled off the table, and silently like a cat walked off towards the wall, twisting on her heel once she was on her mark, to face the other side of the room. At the question if she feels anything wrong, she just shook her head once more. She felt very good. No pain, no pressure, no strain, she didn't even feel cold. Yet, she could see even the scarce grains of dust, floating in the air. She could hear Roy's heart pumping his blood, and she could hear how his clothes made night-unhearable sounds as his chest rose and sank. She could feel every imperfection on the floor beneath her feet, and she could smell the shower gel, coming from the doctor with such a hypnotizing voice. But most of all, she could feel the smell of a human being. Flesh and skin. And she was tempted to lunge forth and drink their veins dry, to feast...<br/><br/>"Are you hungry?" Roy asked her in a quiet voice. She gave him a somewhat stronger nod as a response. The other one of the men bent under his desk to retrieve a small flask of a crimson liquid. Dark, swirling as he poured it into a plastic cup, and handed it to her.<br/>She would recognize the smell if she hasn't felt it for a thousand years.<br/>Human blood.<br/><br/>And she drank up.