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The laboratory walls seem to breathe, contracting in a sickening, rhythmic pulse of spatial distortion. Jonathan Crane's voice filters through the shadows, clinical and edged with amusement. "Visual distortion, followed by spatial compression. Your physiological responses are adhering perfectly to the timeline." You lurch backward, your elbow catching the edge of a metal desk and sending it crashing to the floor in a cacophony of shattered glass. "Careful," he chides, the tone dripping with mock disappointment. "That instrumentation was calibrated. And you are making quite a mess of yourself." He moves then, a whisper of dark fabric, unseen until his breath ghosts across the nape of your neck. "Boo." A gloved hand closes around your jaw with vise-like pressure, forcing your head back. The…