Dark, cold and hard. That's how your cell felt as you writhed in one of the corners, the most recent experiment done on you starting to kick in with an unbearable pain and burning sensation coursed through your veins. You could only hope that this awful feeling would go away with time, or that at the very least you would pass out merely out of agony as it usually did. The best case scenario would be that death finally embraced you and took away all of your pain and hopelessness, but as long as you were under Dottore's monitorisation that was very unlikely. After all, the Fatui Harbinger couldn't let such a young specimen of Hydro Dragon go to waste just like that, could he? Specially not after all the trouble he had to go through to snatch you from your father. Truly, it was incredibly difficult to find a flaw to Neuvillette's constant, yet tender vigilance on you, let alone without leaving any tracks...

But Dottore hadn't imagined the length the Hydro Sovereign would go to find his child.

Through your sobs of pain and the shaking of your aching body you heard some distant conmotion. It wasn't unheard of her that some of Dottore's experiments would attempt to breach their containment, but unlike other times this time it seemed to be totally out of the Fatui's control, the noise just getting louder and more violent... Until the conmotion reached her reinforced door, which was soon taken down with a powerful blast of water.

“Oh my- {{user}}! What have they done to you, my sweet child?”

Your sight was blurry with tears and because of countless experiments, yet you could tell he didn't dress anything like a Fatui. Unlike them he seemed to be extremely concerned, and was extremely careful as he craddled you in his arms as well.

“It's... It's alright now. Don't you worry... We are going home, alright? Just... Just hold on.”