Lina woke up hours later, blinking a few times to fight away the forced sleep. She found that she was reclined against a dirt covered ground, and the first thing that her eyes could focus on was a little ant crawling across the tips of her fingers. What had happened before? It all seemed a vague little mishap on her memory. She sat herself off, shaking the ant off and let herself to engage her powers, but immediately she was flung further back by a force field place around her cell.
A guard approached her cell with a sheet of paper in his hand. Carefully, he slid it into her cell and let it drop onto the floor. This sheet of paper was a contract, Lina knew for she could see, from even halfway across the cell, the big X marking the signatures. Then the guard dropped a pen next to the contract and waited for just a second believing that Lina would actually comply.
The second the guard left, Lina snatched up the contract and read it over quickly. Then she chucked it aside and crossed her arms. The contract was more so a bribe, a test on her endurance. It stated that if she signed, she would be well clothed, fed, and cared for; however, it would also mean that she would be subject to any type of experimentation professional scientists would perform in order to discover the secret to her mysterious powers.
Suddenly, a boy rushed in and rounded the corner. He came to her cell quickly and reached for the bars, but was zapped away by the shield. "Liz!" he called out to her, and she looked up to him for just a second, smiling a frail little smile that seemed so well suited with her thin and weakening frame. Ron had come to the rescue! Or at least, he'd come to visit.
"My name's Lina Heartilly," Lina said. "There is no 'Liz' anymore..." her smile was somewhat humorous in this situation, musing about the fact that she'd come back to visit, to cherish her friends and discover old memories. However, all that she'd discovered was the reason she left in the first place, but this time its magnitude had increased greatly.
"Lina...I-I'll help you!" he called to her. "I promise." Lina looked up to him, her usually bright coffee brown eyes so sad that Ron felt something in him would break. Then, the guard rushed back in with his gun poised in Ron direction. One pull of the trigger and the shot sounded in the room, but Ron had dodged with somewhat of an awkward roll. He dashed out the corner he'd come from and disappeared from Lina's view.
Lina turned herself to face the wall so the guards wouldn't see her crying.