Bennett furrowed one of his half-singed eyebrows. âThere should be a clock on your computer, you can just check the timeâŚâÂ
The blonde teen could hardly read, but even he could understand a few numbers on a screen. It was the only clock in the whole laboratory, tiny and flickering; it was Felix himself who had all the others removed. Time is distracting, he said. If you spend your days worrying about nothing but time, you wonât get anything done. That was his logic.Â
Yet, he was still constantly trying to work against the clock. Hypocrite.Â
ââŚunless youâve been too busy to even do that.â
Too busy to pull his lidded, sleepy eyes away from the screen for even a moment, lest he put his research at stake.Â
Briefly, Bennett thought back to his initial years out of the facilityâbeing run into the ground, getting worked upward and outward, night and dayâto test human parameters, to get results, all in the name of Science. Felix was barely any older than he was back then. To think, that in joining that madman Bennett was just paving the way for such a crude, failed experiment⌠Henry always had a loathsome heart.
Pushing away from the door, he took a few slow, deliberate steps toward his superior. When not confined within a tiny screen, sometimes Bennett would rediscover just how small Felix truly was; his feet barely reached the laboratory floor.
âYou can afford to sleep; youâre human. Itâs been days, Honikker,â came the grumbled response. Stubborn.
   âHm?...Oh, right, yes. There it is.â
  He really was out of it, Felix failed to notice the indicator at the bottom of his screen. Even after staring at it & the various papers scattered around his desk, he never noticed it--that was bound to happen anyway. Even with the use of his glasses that he rarely used, things were harder to read than they shouldâve been, perhaps it was better to just go to bed & continue where he left off in the morning or rather later in the day if his body doesnât pass out due to over-exhaustion. Letting out a stifled yawn, Felix nearly tilted forward, hitting his desk, if he didnât catch himself before he ended up hurting himself.
   âNo...not too busy...just didnât see it. I went...color blind for several minutes..so everything was just blinking..â
  He answered as he attempted to move things out of the way; sluggishly in fact. The boy was smart. But he was very much an idiot when it came to taking care of himself--giving himself the breaks his body very much needed, whether that meant sleeping on time or eating whenever possible. But constantly moving around meant, he was never aware of when he needed any of these things & it would backfire on him later, just as in this instant.Â
  A grumble in protest at the elderâs statement. Felix knew it had been days, he knew this was going to destroy him the more he kept on. But pleasing his uncle came first, Felix just wanted some kind of affirmation from Huxley, itâs all he had been working toward for as long as he could remember.
   âMake me....dumb ass...â