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Date August 19th 2025 3:46AM,
Tighnari was up finishing up a medical report, when he heard a knock on his door. He got up from his desk confused as the abyss he went to see who would come at this hour. There was a small letter addressed to him from Alhaitham.
“Oh great Archons,” Tighnari murmured under his breath.
“What could it possibly be,” Tighnari sighed as he picked up the letter taking it back to his desk to read.
Dear Tighnari,
Hello, I pray to Celestia you have been well old friend, I have recently found some old files which are about child experiments. I found them in the old Sages office. I was wondering if you would like to come and go through them with me, Cyno, and Kaveh on the 23rd at 5:30PM,
-Hope you can make it! Alhaitham.
”huh old files…? Not even Alhaitham could finish? Now that’s a rare one…” Tinghnari stated. Tinghnari checked his schedule to make sure he has nothing coming up, then he began writing his letter
Dear Alhaitham,
I will love to come and help out I will see you soon
-Tighnari
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August 23 2025 5:00PM
”Collei take these medication while I’m gone remember take two dose per every hour and before you have a meal take three instead of two,” Tighnari explain to Collei how much medication she’s going to have to take before he heads out.
“don’t worry, master Tighnari i’ll remember to take them I promise!” Collei smiled.
“remember, Collei if anything is to happen while i’m gone tell Amir immediately and if it’s major, I’ll come back the second I get the news.” Tighnari explained
“I’ll be fine master Tighnari your only gone for two days go have fun now!” Collei stated as they started to leave Gandharva Ville.
”stay safe Collei and when I come back Cyno will stay with us as well for a week or so I’ll be back soon goodbye.” Tighnari said his goodbyes and headed off to the grand sages- I mean Alhaithams office.
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6:00 PM
”just like that Kaveh you owe me 20 mora,” Cyno laughed
“COME ON OH MY ARCHONS I CANT BELIEVE I JUST LOST THIS BET! UGH!” Kaveh complained
“They were just placing bets on when you will get here and Cyno won,” Alhaitham updated Tighnari.
“ah I see thanks for that,” Tighnari sighed
Alhaitham suddenly grabbed a whole mountain of files all in numerical order the table shook as he placed down the pile.
“ah this will be so fun…” Kaveh sighed
“oh my archon what the… there is so many…” Cyno sighed
“so it’s best to start now. I went throw a few of these before you all got here and well it’s very very disgusting, for these files contain information about children raging from the ages three years old to eighteen who were experimented on by the Fatui and… was funded by the academia.” Alhaitham said with a grim expression.
“sorry Alhaitham may you give me and Tinghnari a moment?” Cyno asked
“Go on but make it quick we have a lot to get through,” Alhaitham sighed
“yes of course,” Cyno stood up and so did Tinghnari. They both left the room and stood in the hallway then Cyno began talking.
“do you think that these files could be the same as Colleis experiments by the doctor?” Cyno stated.
“I’m not sure but if they are we will sneak Colleis file with us to get more information and be able to know what Collei has been through after all she has only been out of that place for 3 years” Tighnari sighed with pain and worry.
“all the evidence points to it being were Collei was experimented on but there are other children as well it’s not just Collei she never told us about there being anyone else with her there.” Cnyo said with curiosity and worry.
”well, we won’t know any info if we just stand here doing nothing so let’s go in and see if Colleis file is actually there.” Tighnari said.
they both headed back into the room they already had a stack of files on there part of the desk it looked like they split it up by numerical order.
“Welcome back you two. Me and Kaveh split up the files so that way we’re all a fair portion. I’ll be doing the files that start with the number seven to nine, Kaveh has numbers that start with six, I gave tighnari ones that start with zero and two, and Cnyo ones that start with one and three.” Alhaitham explained
And so they all started going throw the files each file would have a name and then a number with that name which is the number on the file based on that they could tell that the numbers where somewhat of the child’s name. There would be a picture of the child on the left corner of the paper and under it would hold a status of alive, dead, or unknown, if the status was dead it would have the date the child died with a chip that when connected by a certain device you could see a hologram of their death out of pure curiosity Kaveh put the chipe into the device in the hologram showed a child’s head, no older than five years old, being sliced clear off by some sort of machine after they saw that hologram nobody else stared to put a chip into the device. The file had the day that they were brought to the lab, a picture of the child, a name, the child’s ability’s, (the children there are being experimented on because they have abilities that a normal person should not have.) A list of friends, the different kinds of experiments they go through, and if they are missing limbs.
Tighnari has been going through these files for the past three hours and he feels so much pain for all that these children went through and is now praying praying so so hard to celestia that Collei was never in that abyss hole.
as he finished up another file with sorrow he opened up the next file, file number 02567. There it was he felt like he is going to vomit. A picture of a young Collei wrapped in bandages, with blood seeping out the sides, red shot eyes, messed up hair, and so so much more stood. He couldn’t believe it he kept telling himself that it wasn’t her but he lost hope when he saw her name on the corner “Collei #02567”.