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Summary
There are these moments in between, when the needles are withdrawn, when the shocks are turned down, when the endless void makes way for light, and when Papa's voice fades.
When he can stop being Subject Zero, and disappear into his own private little world.
The Happy Place, where the sun shines on his skin—unmarred in his little paradise—and blades of grass tickle his ankles, and leaves fall into hair grown past his ears, and a happy little song chimes quietly in the back of his head.
The only sound that of water trickling in some far-off river, twigs snapping gently beneath his bare feet, birds tweeting from the tops of trees that reach up into the perpetually setting sky, and the song—nameless, and without words.
In this little world, he can be a version of whoever he was before Papa took him, before memories grew hazy with grief for a life he can no longer remember.
In his paradise, he can be alone. Away from the constant, dissecting gaze of scientists.
(The rest of the summary is in the notes of the first chapter. Had to be because of the word limit.)
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