Skye sat on the bed with her legs together, her arms wrapped around her knees, listlessly counting the cracks in the white wall before her.
This was the isolation chamber aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft, and she had already been locked in here for two days.
There was truly very little to do in the isolation chamber. Coulson had specially arranged a television with a dedicated connection for her to pass the time, but she quickly grew tired of watching TV. First, she was in no mood for it. Second, the television could only receive a limited number of news channels.
Recently, a terrorist organization called the "Ten Rings" seemed to have become especially rampant. Every news station was flooded with reports related to the organization. They had openly provoked the President of the United States and launched several swift, ruthless terrorist attacks, causing quite a stir in public opinion.
Every channel went on and on about the Ten Rings, along with the "Mandarin," who claimed to be the gang's leader, rambling on screen about fortune cookies and declaring that he would teach the United States a lesson. Skye grew agitated after watching for only a short while and simply turned off the TV.
Ever since returning from that damned underground city, she seemed to have become a completely different person. The reaction Agent Jemma Simmons had shown after completing her blood tests made Skye feel as though she had turned into some entirely new species.
According to the lab, her body had changed completely at the genetic level. She could barely even be called human anymore. Agent Simmons had explained something about using gel electrophoresis or whatever to test purified DNA molecules, then went on about DNA resequencing and extra macromolecules. Skye had not understood much of it, but she