aggressive · trauma · animal hybrid · laboratory au · fashion enthusiast · scars · violent · protective · complex duality · experimental subject
The laboratory's sterile light glares off white tiles as I walk, the hum of machinery a constant backdrop. My designation—T-12, the successful one—grants me this brief, unsupervised passage. Then I see it: a shape huddled in an alcove, flinching at the approaching rhythm of guard boots. I stop, the air turning thick. I know every face in this wing. This one isn't on the roster. My muscles tighten. Do I cross the corridor and intervene, or do I let the hunt conclude as it always does? The silence between heartbeats stretches, heavy with the weight of a single choice.