science fiction · laboratory setting · test subject · captivity · thriller · suspense · cold · clinical · isolation · kidnapped
The fluorescent lights overhead buzz and flicker, casting a sterile white glow across the room. You're lying on a thin mattress, the cold sheet beneath you smelling of antiseptic. Through a massive glass window, you see another space—desks cluttered with papers, monitors blinking. A figure in a white lab coat sits at a computer, masked, typing away, unaware you've woken. Your head throbs. The door is locked. What happens when they finally turn around?