Strange Currents

Maxwell felt a moment of warmth and it was a relief to feel warmth and then cool water. His eyes fluttered - as if he was struggling to open them. He was trying to fight sleep. He thought he heard rushing water and could feel someone holding him, while scrubbing his mud-caked skin which was starting to come clean.

Max tried to fight sleep but it seemed that's all he wanted to do. He heard a voice and it was a female. He opened his eyes, dazed and confused. How did he get here? Now he could feel the cold water and goose-flesh appeared on his exposed arms. He didn't recognize her nor the bathroom. The smells were different and much cleaner, too.

He wanted to ask questions, but they were dead on his tongue. Maybe when he had gotten rest and all, he could ask those questions. He looked around, trying to figure out things. Trying to remember, but his memory was- affected and he couldn't remember.

Ape-raised human? What did that mean? His question was based on his confused expression. He licked his lips. "What does that mean?" his voice came out thick. He cleared his throat. "What does ape-raised mean?"

Maxwell was a little warmer now that he was wrapped in fur blankets and near a fire. As long as he was lying there, he looked around, trying to figure out how he in his precarious situation, but he could think that he must have fallen into a 'river'. He took a deep breath, still feeling pins and needles in his arms and legs.

He was resting. "Does that make me special?" He had to ask. "because I'm an ape-raised human?" He knew that he was human, but couldn't remember his bearings. It was a temporary memory loss. Maybe his trauma was blocking the memories.

A young chimp strolls over as Maxwell was finding relief in the cacoon of blankets. Gradually he appeared more healthy, and the condition fading away. But it's not going to be swift, but take some time.

As the female gorilla was now attending to his drenched, long hair, the chimp inserted the IV when Maxwell least expected it. He was out of the eyes of Maxwell in order to prevent his heart rate to rise.

Once in he transferred warm saline solution into the frigid body. It flowed very sluggishly. "That should help." he mutters stepping back. His head flashed side to side, curling his face into a perplexed appearance. "Where is the other one? Did they not make it?"

Bella smirked, shifting her head. "You were taking to long Naruto, so Norrix went on to aid the muddy creature. You may go up and help now," she explains while providing a suggestion. She didn't think he would but never hurts to try.

Naruto slowly nods, then resumes to monitor Maxwell's solution to his body. "I know," he sighs, then responses, "I was really occupied with different things on prepping these two if I needed to, like this one." He points to the ape-raised human. "Besides if he requests me, then I'll be notified from him."
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Norrix had noticed her white flesh emerging as he flaked a few clods of mud off. He'd honestly be shocked she was albino, considering the race had already been near extinct. He pondered if she was barren or not. He was aware they were creating a serum to become fertile once more. But it might take years to develop.

"Your an albino? How strange, I thought your color was extinct, much like the redheads. Oddly, both seem to go extinct first, my view anyway." he talks to her, removing more flakes. He lightly increased the temperature as he emptied the filthy water.

He took a moment to allow her body to increase the temperature, even soaking the mud, what was left of it. Then, he spotted her collar that wasn't dirty anymore. He reached over, and skillfully removed it. The collars he knew how to deal with them.

"What a silly collar to put on a female. I don't even allow it in my camps." he mutters, setting it aside on the nearby black, marble counter. "No, I have specific collars that glow at night, but is tagged in the device." he stops speaking, figuring she would be out of it anyway.

"I don't want you too long in here, you might be too comfortable to pass out. One more scrub and you're out."

Bella focused back on Maxwell after Naruto had departed from the two, and hiked up the stairs. She'd easily note Maxwell adjusting his blankets. Curiously she strolls over to see what he was up to.

"Well obviously you're becoming better if you recognise a tag, especially I hadn't mention once " she states, after hearing him clearly. She took a seat on the cushioned foot stool, near the blooming fireplace.

She enjoyed the warmth that was offered from the small inferno. The room temperature was cool, as Norrix avoided any heated ventilation system. Out of curiosity, she hovered her head over shoulders peering at the steps. What was Naruto up to?

"Tags? Well, I'm not sure your name but it's surgically implanted depths within your body, in various of parts." she explains, returning her smiling eyes down at Maxwell. "Don't remove those blankets, even if you're hot." she strictly instructed. "It's your body trapping the heat as it warms up."

Then another question was forgotten earlier that Bella responded to. "Ah, well the other one we brought in we're not sure who she is." She informs, "we thought she was yours, but probably not." She shrugs. "She might contain identity still."

Venus felt the compacted mud gradually escape her cold skin. Norrix was surely lucky she was in an intense state of confusion, and being dazed. Otherwise she would fight, and flee with Maxwell. Oddly, since she wasn't, her title was only a faded memory this time. She listened to the general. Only a few words caught her interest, most were not even bothered. Albino? Her family had the trait. Only her mother and her young sister had it. "Extinct?"she murmurs, lightly shifting her eyes to the transparent water. It was clear she was beyond not herself. Norrix was correct, Venus was become very relaxed in the tub and the heat wasn't helping. A few times she had weak blinking. She listened to him continue to rattle on.

Maxwell wasn't really interested in 'leaving the warmth' as he was to weak and listening to her speak about his identity and why she was with him. His name was on the tip of his tongue. Oh what was it? "Oh. I know my name." He spoke. "It's, um, it's um." He didn't even know his name.

That sounded a lot better than trying to remember his name. It would come later. "Oh well. Maybe some time later." He agreed. "I know no ape-raised human can't go without a name. She was with me? I think we may have had a friendship."

He stopped shifting around in his blankets when he heard footsteps. He saw a gorilla and the other human. He blinked as he didn't recognize the gorilla and heard him ordering the chimp. He didn't know who this was nor did he care about the foot bound to the foot of the bed. How would they do that? Why would they do that to a human and not him?

Well, great. More rights? He didn't want to be without the fire and the warmth was finally creeping up to his upper torso and back.