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Anya was shaking. Wich honestly, loid wasnt super concerned about, the child had a tendency to be skittish and emotional. What raised alarmed bells for the spy and made him begin picking apart the sitauton, looking to get more information to get a decent plan of attack, is that the shaking started when the doctor entered the apartment.
Twilight had called in a WISE scientist in to look over the newly adopted dog, deemed bond by the child, to gain data on the possible aspects and results of the expermtion the dog most likely under went. Nothing too rigours, just getting a read on the canines intelligence, abilities, possible weaponization within its biology. He had played it off as a simple vet check, it didn't require a deep cover.
But now the scientist was staring at anya and anya was shaking and loid was confused and his finger was twitching for his trusty gun. Because what? Does The Child have medical truama? It would make sense, many orphans have traumatic complex backgrounds, but then why is the doctor staring, and beginning to smile? And loid had The child looked over by doctors when he first brought her into the home, got her vaccinations and a read on possible malnutrition, and she didnt react anywhere near like this. Sure, she wasn't comfortable, but she wasnt on the verge of crying, and there was also that time they volunteered at the hospostial and the child had no reaction whatsoever, except when she had that odd little moment jumping in the damm pool-
But loid had begun simply shrugging off The Child's oddities, those little tantrums and out breaks and odd moments of spewing nonsense. He didn't know enough about children, and it seemed like just one of those annoying childish things.
He reached out his hand towards the doctor “doctor olsen, thank you for coming. Anya, dr olsen come over to give bond a look over”
Anya whimpers and loids alarm bells ring louder. Something is happening here. Something that he is out of the loop about, that he doesn't have information about. The doctor is smiling in a way that seems like he knows something, wants something. Hmm. he needs more information. And judging by the way anya is clutching his leg, he doesn't think she’s particularly intent on giving him more information. How irritating.
The doctor crouches down and smiles at The Child “hello little girl. Im here to look at your puppy”
Anya whined distressed and ran away towards her room, dragging bond by the collar with her. loid felt his patience waning. So it was going to be one of those days was it. He apolgctily nods towards the doctor “im sorry, ill be right with you, I just have to deal with this quickly”
He decided to get the man settled with a cup of tea before going after The Child. He’s pouring the tea when the man speaks up sounding….pleased?
“My, i never thought I run into it here, do you even know what you have hands on twilight?”
loid feels his shoulders tense. This man is being awfully careless with his cover and he dosent appreciate it. Sure, yor is at work and anya is in her room, but still. He put in a damm lot of work into this cover and it annoys him greatly that the scientist is being so cavalier about it “watch your mouth. I am loid forger. I dont need anya overhearing you and asking questions or repeating things”
That makes the man laugh, wich in turns makes loids eye twitch in annoyance “oh? You dont think she knows?”
Yeah hes definitely missing some piece of this puzzle. How irritating. Nothing makes him more annoyed then a lack of information. “While children are perceptive, i am the best within my field and she is, in the end, a naive child”
The man sips his tea “....twighlight are you aware of project apple?”
loids eyes twitchs again. This man. Does he really work for WISE? He thinks he’ll make a strongly worded report requesting the immediate discharge of this idotic man. “Yes. thats why your here, to look over the dog.”
The doctor hums, like forgot about why he was here. Yeah twilight is definitely suggesting he get fired. “Yes. the dog. Were you aware the project dabbled in more….uncouth subegects?”
Irritating, a leading vague question. loids eye twitch is beginning to ache. “Explain.”
The man smirks “project apple delved into….human subjects as well. They were far and few between, mostly because it was higher risk and there was already a high failure rate”
loid feels sick. No he feels wrathfull, burning with fury. No he feels like hes going to vomit. No he feels like hes going to break this man in short order.
loid feels….something strong is what he decides. “Is that so. And why pray tell. Do you you bring this up where my daughter can hear. Your endangering my assignment”
The man smirks wider what is that missing puzzle piece. Why was anya shaking why is this man bringing up human expermation why is he smirking-
loid knows the answer
He tries very very hard to convince himself that its a long shot, a mental miscalibration. Its simply not a possiblty
“There are no failures in the world of science twilight, but there are some interesting cases The most prominent ones were the child altered to be more beast like, akin to a wolf. She ripped six men to shreds before she was sedated. There was of course the one that simply exploded, a fascinating output of data. There was the one that grew tusks and suffocated on them. But, by far the most successful so to speak case was the mindreader.”
loid loses his composure more and more as he listens. WISE employs this man? He clearly works, or worked, for project apple, and their intel on the project seemed to be heavily lacking. Stay calm twilight. Gather information. Be angry later. “Oh?”
The man calmly sips his tea “yes. Quite the marvel that one, the ability to read anyones mind at any time. It even stretched to animals bizarrely enough. There was the slight downside of observation, she cried often while observing. Easily overwhelmed when around multiple people.”
loids mine spins, chugging like an out of control train
-anyas reaction to crowds- the way she was too perceptive sometimes- her weird outbursts that seemd to stem from nothing-
“...well it follows that it would be unpleasant to hear other people thoughts.”
The man sighs, almost dramttically put out “very sympathetic of you. Anyways, the subject managed to escape, quite the travesty. She was quite the ideal data set”
loids hand goes to his hidden gun “....your not from WISE”
The man smirks a little wider, cruel “i am not. I am here to collect my property wich you have stolen twilight. I must say i was rather surprised when I found where exactly the brat ran off to. Makes it all rather complactied hm?”
loid feels like everything is spinning out of control. Anyas a mind reader that cant be true-
Itcantbeitcantbeitcantbe- she knows about him and the mission and why he adopted her- he tries to focus his thoughts, hes nothing if not adaptable. He focus his thought pointed into a single message ‘if you can hear this, run anya, run away now.’
He’s pulled his gun now, but he’s hesitaint to fire it. He dosent need the neibores attention on him, and if this man is making shit up anya would have qustions-
His debate about weather to fire is interrupted by a new body entering the living room. A teenage girl, holding anya by the neck. The doctor smirks. “Good job dog. Didnt even damage the merchanindece”
loids mind raced as he took in the new variable. Looks to be about thirteen or fourteen, but skinny and pale so malnourishment, so could be older. A metal collar around her neck, looks to elctracal in nature, and the doctor has pulled out a controller of some kind, so their under duress then. They have inhuman claws of some kind, and slitted eyes, can rely on reason and logic from her then if the story the doctor told is to be trusted-
Anyas squirming and whimpering, struggling in the hair held by the neck by the teen. Not ideal, she could pass out soon, wait, if what the man said is true anya is a mind reader, allowing for further and more in depth planning, what plan to go with though-
Ideas race through his mind, and based on the look on panicked girls face, she does understand and hear the thoughts, though shes absolutely not stealthy whatsoever and she certainly does know how to lie so twilight needs to account for those facts all while keeping his thoughts projecting at the right strength so the child knows what to do and when-
Hes going to have a migraine later. A bad one.
Right now though, he focuses his thoughts in just the right moment, demanding that anya hit the teen in the solar plexus, wich loosens the grip and makes her drop anya, startling the doctor and gives twilight the chance to grapple the man to the ground, grab the controller for the teen and aim the gun at the teen in case the controllers not enough of a threat.
All in split seconds. Damn hes good.
The teen looks afraid. Anya looks afraid. The doctor is knocked out. What on earth is supposed to do now?!