
The Luminous Protocol
The air in the underground lab smelled of ozone and static, a metallic tang that clung to the back of Dr. Elara Voss’s throat. She adjusted her gloves, fingers brushing the cold steel of the containment unit as she stared…
The air in the underground lab smelled of ozone and static, a metallic tang that clung to the back of Dr. Elara Voss’s throat. She adjusted her gloves, fingers brushing the cold steel of the containment unit as she stared…
Dr. Elara Voss stepped off the skiff, her boots crunching on permafrost as the wind clawed at her parka. The Arctic research station loomed ahead, a skeletal structure of steel and glass half-buried in snow. She adjusted her gloves, fingers…
Dr. Elara Voss adjusted her gloves, the latex creaking as she pressed a finger to the glass. The room hummed with the low thrum of machinery, a sound that had become as familiar as her own breath. Outside the reinforced…