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No, I was a test subject.

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Hol up ]

And what did that entail, exactly?

Test Subject? It means I was created in a laboratory. Does your world have those?

It does.

Though, generally, any person who resides in one as a test subject is there against their will.

[ Against their will...?

...Well. Nenonen definitely wanted to leave after the time loops began. That's when everything started to go wrong, and when everyone started to deteriorate. But before that the thought had never crossed their mind. Nen's whole world existed within the confines of the tower. Nothing existed beyond that until the researchers were gone and their key cards, recovered. ]

Why?

Because of unscrupulous morals on the parts of their overseers, usually.

Were you asked if you wanted to be there? Were you offered the opportunity to leave?

[ Nen pauses. ]

...No. They didn't ask us questions like that.

Would you say, then, that you were there because you wanted to be?

I didn't know I could leave.

[ And by the time Nen found out, there was no one left alive to help them do it. ]

So this is why you'd never seen flowers before?

Yeah. Even when I found the windows and could see outside, I never saw any of them. But a few of the books had pictures, and there was a painting in one of the lobbies.

[ . . . . ]

Have you ever been flying before, Neno?

You mean like in the sky? Like a dragon?

[ It really tells you something when the first flying animal you can name is a dragon and not, like...a bird. A plane. Kites. Anything else. ]