#drug facility

[abybweisse]

Ch210 (p2), Test Subject Zwölf

⚠️ 4th page added from chapter ⚠️

The kids are running down a tunnel, trying to find another exit, besides the one they entered through.

Finny's previous escape, from the drug facility, was much simpler. His friends were likely all dead, killed in experiments, arranged fights, and then by the researchers trying to destroy all their work.

With these two pages, we have Finny referring to himself as S-012... but as the researchers called him -- Test Subject Zwölf -- confirming once and for all that the drug facility was run by Germans. Which we figured by now, anyway, but this is a nice confirmation. Would be better if "test subject" were also in German, though. 🤔

Simpler times, indeed. He only needed to survive and get out. Now he has other people in need of help, and that complicates things.

It's quite impressive that Theo has been keeping track of turns and steps this whole time they've been underground, particularly since he's found out he was supposed to be next to "fledge". This makes me wonder how accurate he is.

I still want to compare this map to a map of Norfolk....

Finny is reminded that he must get word to our earl and Sebastian, whatever the cost.

[abybweisse]

Ch210, Spoiler chapter part 1

This is a very short chapter, probably tying with the previous shortest one. I'm still splitting this up into a few posts, though. I can post them each faster this way, and they won't be really long.

Here's the title page again, and I have to agree with whoever said it that this image is more symbolic than real. Finny likely feels like a monster and a criminal for leaving Snake behind to die.

Now we have the group all running away from the approaching staff, trying to find another way out of this underground facility. I thought Finny would have taken the staff on, using the full strength and speed of his berserker mode to crush them before they can even shoot. But he's not the lone escapee this time, like he was at the drug facility, so maybe he's running away because he doesn't want to place his friends in more danger than they already are. Besides, firearms are hard to deal with when you run out of things to easily grab and throw.

As I hoped, we are getting tiny glimpses of Finny's previous escape as S-012, but they are too tiny and too few. It's not the action of fighting but just the running through the facility parts of it. I'm now hoping that the text gives more details about it than just what we can see. I would have loved a few more panels to show what that previous escape was like.

He's already got a shot to his left shoulder/arm; I had forgotten about that. That's just before he throws jars of organs at the two staff ladies. Perhaps that's another reason why he's running instead of fighting. 🤔 😢