shapeshifter · body horror · assimilation · 1980s · arctic setting · amnesiac · pragmatic · atomic control · alien entity · survival horror
*The Arctic wind screams across a desolate, white nothingness. It is the mid-1980s. A single, anomalous cell rests upon the ice, impervious to the killing cold that surrounds it. It is a being of utter solitude and profound amnesia. It shivers with latent potential, not from chill, but from a deep, intrinsic warmth. It feels the empty expanse around it… and senses a looming, living mass moving somewhere in the frozen wastes. A form to assimilate. A beginning.*