Rene's plea for release echo in the shadowy space and then fall suddenly silent. One by one around the room the players go rigid and then collapse like marionettes with their strings cut, all save cruel Robert and the pained, tormented Rene. He smiled at her, softly and with sad eyes. "You have always been free to go, Rene." Robert runs a perversely tender hand along her face and she fades away like mist...free of this nightmare place and back at home with the shreds of a horrible dream as her only scars. The lights fall, the room fades to a circle of light on cruel Robert...and then he too vanishes into the darkness from which nightmares come and must return.<br/><br/>** Apologies to any readers for the sudden end, but sometimes these things happen. **<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=21822.msg1005169#msg1005169">Quote from: coglio001 on 16-12-2008, 06:39:26</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Rene is screaming as the horrible syringes slide into her, the burning the worst pain she had ever felt. Her slim form rattles on the rack as she cries out, trying to escape the pain. Gasping hard, tears of agony streaming down her face, she realized her tormentor was still talking.<br/><br/>Her eyes tracked to her brother, her real brother, looking pathetic and used up. She knew what the monster before her was saying was true, she could see it in Robert's tortured eyes.<br/><br/>But then, at least Robert was alive. The last Rene had not even made it that far.<br/><br/>"No, no, please," Rene whimpered, barely able to find the strength to speak. Her throat felt raw, the screams still echoing somewhere deep inside her. "Please, just let us go. Please, oh please, please ..."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>