Ooooo I like where you took this! Thank you for the prequel :) Experimentation on him, hmmmm… I love the possibilities you opened up.

Yeah prequels! A rare species, indeed. I haven’t read the original, but now I’m looking forward to it…

Great job doing a prequel. Had a lab-rat sort of feel to it. Nice job filling in the blanks to set up Melia’s bit nicely.