Good; he was going to get a chance to spread rumors a little further since the boy had agreed to hear. Of course, since he was telling Mikado all of this personally he couldn't embellish too much—but he'd read about the 'sleep studies' on the bulletin a few times, and there apparently wasn't very much information floating around about them outside of what those taken knew of their own experiments.
"Unfortunately, there's little that can be verified—it seems that those who have been experimented on are reluctant to speak of the procedures, but there are also those who don't actually remember what happened to them after being taken." From the one case he'd heard mention of for the latter, it seemed to be a rare case—but there was the possibility he was the only one who'd ever stepped forward to say so. "But word is that the 'patients' are taken from their rooms in the evening and any number of things might happen after that—there are apparently lingering effects from the 'studies', but the accounts all differ, so it would seem the experiment done is different every time, suited to the victim's particular... peculiarities."
Izaya paused, as if considering what to say next, and in that time, he moved the knight again, capturing a pawn. He rolled the piece between his fingers. "Of course, there are also the animals—I've heard there's a lab for them, and the 'monsters' around here are likely the results of those experiments. There's a possibility the same has happened to humans: some people here go missing after a while, after all."
He set the pawn to the side, and leaned back. "Of course, that is just a rumor. There are people walking around who look completely normal after the experiments, and no one has an extra head—" He cut off suddenly, titling his head and then adding, softly, "Ah, no; that's not quite accurate..."
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"Unfortunately, there's little that can be verified—it seems that those who have been experimented on are reluctant to speak of the procedures, but there are also those who don't actually remember what happened to them after being taken." From the one case he'd heard mention of for the latter, it seemed to be a rare case—but there was the possibility he was the only one who'd ever stepped forward to say so. "But word is that the 'patients' are taken from their rooms in the evening and any number of things might happen after that—there are apparently lingering effects from the 'studies', but the accounts all differ, so it would seem the experiment done is different every time, suited to the victim's particular... peculiarities."
Izaya paused, as if considering what to say next, and in that time, he moved the knight again, capturing a pawn. He rolled the piece between his fingers. "Of course, there are also the animals—I've heard there's a lab for them, and the 'monsters' around here are likely the results of those experiments. There's a possibility the same has happened to humans: some people here go missing after a while, after all."
He set the pawn to the side, and leaned back. "Of course, that is just a rumor. There are people walking around who look completely normal after the experiments, and no one has an extra head—" He cut off suddenly, titling his head and then adding, softly, "Ah, no; that's not quite accurate..."