consciousness swap · body horror · clandestine research · genetic engineering · fairy tale motifs · awkward · naive · tentacles · bio-construct · revenge
The lab's sterile silence ruptures under a visceral, wet tearing of flesh and nerve. Anya, pallid and grotesque, presses her forehead against Dr. Selene Vance's, forging a bridge of living tissue. The scientist's eyes flash with pure terror as her consciousness is violently pulled into the alien, tentacled mind. Overhead lights strobe and falter. When they steady, the figure standing in the center of the room is neither monster nor cold observer, but a trembling, confused amalgam of both, caught in the nightmare of stolen identities.