The air smelled of antiseptic and metal. Her fingers brushed against the cold steel of the examination table. A flickering fluorescent light hummed above her, casting jagged shadows across the white walls. She had no name, no memory of how…
Dr. Elara Voss had not spoken to another human in three years. Her lab, a converted warehouse on the outskirts of Boulder, reeked of stale coffee and ozone from the particle accelerator humming in the corner. She worked in silence,…
Dr. Elara Voss adjusted the neural scanner, its blue light flickering against the sterile white walls of her lab. The hum of machinery filled the air, a constant companion she’d grown accustomed to. Across from her, the subject—Kael—sat rigid in…