I leaned back against the cold stone wall, letting my head rest for a mont as I studied him, now far more stable and cleaner than when he had collapsed into the cell. I had seen him in his previous panther hybrid body and now seeing him as a man was a little weird but we had expected sothing like this before coming here.
"So what happened after you got here?" I asked, turning my head slightly toward him. "I an… the beginning. How did all this even start for you?"
Knight let out a slow breath, shifting his posture as he settled more comfortably against the wall, his gaze drifting sowhere distant as he began to recall it.
"When I woke up," he said, "I was already half-dead. The body I took over had a massive wound across the torso, deep enough that I could feel the damage before I even understood where I was. They had thrown into what I think was their version of a morgue… just left there to die."
He paused briefly, rubbing the back of his neck as if the mory itself was uncomfortable.
"I wasn't alone at first. There were other prisoners, a few of them still conscious, and one of them filled in on my situation. Told who I was supposed to be, what I had done. As I told you, apparently, the original owner of this body had killed the mayor's entire family. They were believers, but they were starting to turn, thinking of becoming defiers, so he took them out before they could."
He glanced at briefly before continuing.
"Right after that, the system arrived and everyone was pulled into the tutorial. I didn't even have ti to ask more questions. So suddenly I was alone. Completely alone in the prison."
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