Karmella Williams

I Just Had To

Part 1: Before Home I’ve never been alone. Even as a vignette I was surrounded by scientists in a lab. They would spend their time learning about us and arguing about who knew more. There were also people in grey overalls who would help us by giving us water, changing the art in the room, and talking to us. I used to wish they could understand what we were saying. They were better than the scientists in my opinion. When my triad was abloom, I was moved to a room with warm lamps and threads of all lengths. Once a month, a person who did not work in the lab would come in accompanied by someone in grey overalls and pick one of us to leave. We would all be excited to see one of the kind workers, but the other people were usually annoying. They would look around and call us pretty or they would make their voice high and ask us questions as if they could understand our answer.