The first thing you must do is accept that this is your new life.
This is your only life.
Dwelling in the past, even a little, will not serve you here.
All of that is gone now.
What you see here, with us, is your life.
It will doubtless take you some time to understand this, and more time to accept it.
You will, however, accept it at some point.
We know this because many others before you have been in the same situation and almost all of them eventually accepted it.
We know this because your species is adaptable.
Becoming lab rats, that’s bad. The shuttered doors and sterile environment took me down a similar path for one of my stories.
i can adapt to that,
😉
Randy
This is great – so clinically told!
I agree the cold tone of your story matches the picture and the bleak new world.
Well told. I also agree the tone is exactly right for the sinister world he’s entering
What they don’t understand of course is that species in capivity never behave like they do in the wild. So everything they learn will be wrong