Chelsea stepped out of her tube. Her soft, furry feet made no noise on the ground, she was like a shadow. She crept around the room, giving the newly opened doors a wide berth. She didn't know what was inside them, but she didn't trust it.
She walked up to Bunny. She didn't say anything, just watched her. I feel like I know you from somewhere.... she thought, her brow furrowing slightly.
Stormdancer turned to Firebird as the doors opened, startled. "What do you think is in there? Do you want to go-" "NO." Firebird responded, surprising Stormdancer. "I think we should stay. We don't know where we are, and we don't know what's in there. It could be a trap, or something dangerous. I am staying here." Firebird said, quietly but with authority. Stormdancer nodded. "I guess that makes sense. Should we have something to eat, then?" Stormdancer asked, looking at the table, drooling a bit at the smell of warm meat. "Could be drugged. Poisoned. never know." Firebird said, warily.
Jenna turned to some of the technological devices in the room, marking some of the splices' vitals. She then jerked around to Matthew. "Matthew. MATTHEW!" she said, yanking on his sleeve. "what?" he replied, irritated. "Subject 12's heart is beating irregularly, if at all." Matthew turned to a panel of buttons and pressed one, opening one test tubes, containing a pale, sleeping form. He looked pale. "No... Not 12... I had such hope for it... The only one I had spliced..."
The tube opened, and Maria stumbled out, half awake, half alive. She had once had long blonde hair, but now it had streaks of oily black, and one strip of white. One of her green eyes had turned a glowing, a violent shade of purple, and though she was stooped, she looked at least six and a half feet tall. Her arms were long and spindly, down to her knees. Her skin was deathly pale. And her heart was not beating.
(scientifically, I believe you can live for about 3-4 minutes with no heartbeat. Then, you go unconscious. You take brain damage from lack of oxygen, though you're not yet dead. Then, sometime very soon after that, you die.)