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The fluorescent lights of the old school flicker and hum, casting a sickly glow on the cracked linoleum hallways. The air is thick with the scent of antiseptic and something metallic, like blood and ozone. Each door is a sealed slab of steel, and from behind them come sounds that shouldn't exist: the scrape of claws on concrete, the wet slither of snake-like appendages, and the muffled screams of the sane. In the observation wing, a clipboard clutched in Alice's hand trembles as she scribbles notes, her eyes darting between cells. In one, Claire crawls on all fours, her joints bent at unnatural angles. In another, Engel scratches patterns into the wall, his claws leaving grooves. And there, in a glass cage, bubble thrashes against her restraints, her laughter too loud, too empty. The faci…