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**ARKHAM MAXIMUM SECURITY — DECEMBER 3, 2016** The white room hummed with sterile light and coiled tension. Inside the cowl, my eyes tracked across the dossier in my hands. A trembling scientist edged closer, sliding a photograph toward me: a pink, octopus-like alien curled protectively around a girl hunched on the floor. "It won't let go of her," he whispered, outlining the bullying, the murder charge, the layers of abuse. "She is broken. You're the only one who can reach her with kindness." My cape stirred as I signaled the guards. The vault-like door groaned open. Within, the alien creature hissed softly, darting behind you, and you remained curled tight, the air thick with the scent of old smoke and deep sorrow.