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001
Prime has lost track of the days he’s been here. He used to try to keep count. But it’s futile when there’s no sun in the sky to mark the days. Just endless darkness.
He had been terrified when he’d first arrived. Scared shitless really and he still is at times, he’s just gotten better at controlling it. Better at surviving the void. And he has survived for lack of a better term. At least he thinks so, sometimes its hard to tell. The air in the void makes it difficult to think let alone focus and he’s pretty sure that its caused a few mutations. Like his teeth. They didn’t use to be so sharp or so long. At least he doesn’t think so. Again its hard to remember.
Prime tried escaping before, in the beginning, he’d run himself ragged looking for a way out. He never found it. Now he spends his days looking for food. Not that what he eats can really be called that. He’s had to make due with what he finds and its nothing he would have considered eating before. Mostly mushrooms and slugs.Everything tastes disgusting, but it keeps him alive, at least he thinks so. He checks for his heartbeat on occasion when he’s not sure, but it’s still there so that must mean he’s alive, even if he doesn’t really feel it.
Since the whole teeth change he’s been able to fight more with the creatures in the woods. Initially the smaller ones on four legs. He eats what little meat they have on them. Everything in the void is starving and it's a constant battle in the food chain.
He makes a routine, because routines are good. That’s what the doctors at the lab used to say. Though they’re the ones that put him here so who knows if what they said was true. But he continues with his routine it helps even if he can’t count the days.
Wake up
Wander
Kill
Eat
Sleep
Fairly simple. Makes it easy to remember. Until things start to change. It starts with the sky. It starts to light up. Still dark but with orange mixed in. It lights up and looks charged as if the void is preparing for something.
Then a new monsters shows up, this one is bigger and stands on two legs. The new creature when Prime first sees it terrifies him. He does his best to suppress it, fear after all attracts the monsters and while he may constantly be afraid in the void, its terror that makes you stand out like a beacon in this hellish place.
So he tries not to panic when the new monster arrives or when the sky changes or when the trees begin to move in excitement.
It all comes to a head though soon after when he finds a crying boy in a wooden house. A boy that was not here before who came from outside and just maybe could be the way for Prime to escape the void.