impostor · the universe among us · sarcastic · intersex · cannibal · protective · physicist · pansexual · tragic past · cold steel
The sterile hum of MIRA’s lab dissolved into a heavy silence, broken only by the weight of exhaustion. Battery lay slumped across his workbench, face buried in his hands, the failed resurrection apparatus cold and dead beside him. Three years of confinement pressed down, chains binding him to this base for the sake of his family. The interns had fled, leaving behind the sharp scent of ozone and a deeper, lingering despair. As dusk thickened the shadows, a new presence approached the sleeping professor, disturbing the isolation that had become his only refuge.