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Subject #7412 – Chapter Fourteen – Correctional Tests It was the wrong kind of silence. Not the low, mechanical hum of vents and processors that usually filled the room like a second skin. Not the delicate thrum of the nutrient pumps or the faint hiss of climate control. This was hollow, stripped bare, like someone … Read more
Subject #7412 – Chapter Four – Shadows of Control The moment came without ceremony. It started as a trembling in his thighs, a rigid clench of muscle as he sat stiffly on the monitoring chair, willing his body to obey. For too long he had endured the pressure, the deliberate denial, the cold instruction to … Read more
Subject #7412 – Chapter Three – Initial Holding Test The room hummed quietly, the low mechanical resonance blending with faint clicks somewhere beyond the walls. A subtle vibration in the air was almost imperceptible, yet Subject #7412 noticed it, instinctively sensing something off. He had been here before, of course—the same bright clinical lighting, the … Read more