Det här låter som början av Supernaturalisten av Eoin Colfer .
- publicerad 2004
- huvudpersonen är 14 år och bor i Clarissa Frayne-institutet för föräldravaktiga pojkar, där han är tvungen att verka som en mänsklig marsvin för experimentell produkttestning.
- pojkarna sover i avskurna rörsektioner
- När de försöker fly, blir Marshall skadad i näsan men ignorerar smärtan så att han kan komma till dem.
Marshal Redwood did not pass out. He wasn’t that lucky. Instead, a block of pain battered him like a malignant glacier. He combated the agony using a trick from his army days. Locate the white centre of the pain and concentrate on it. Redwood found, to his surprise, that the root of his pain was not his nose, but in the middle of his forehead. He focused on the spot, sucking the pain in and containing it. He trapped it there long enough to pop a pain tab from its plastic bubble in his medi-kit. Barely a minute later the pain receded to a dull throb behind one ear. Under control. For now.