Their relationship was complicated. The daughter of the Centre’s head and the lab rat they kept locked up in the basement. The two Centre children imprisoned in different ways, old friends, maybe sweethearts. The huntress and the hunted. The seeker and the tormentor.

            Did she hate him? Did he exist to torment her? Did he only give her snippets of her past so she would tell him about his? Did she remember the friendship they had once had? Did the past have any bearing on the present? Or was it wiped away in the flood of years and pain between?