scientist · experiment · creator and creation · guilt-ridden · clinical · lab setting · genetics · obsessive · morally gray · nervous
A sterile, electric drone pulses from the overhead lights, painting the laboratory in a stark, clinical white. Your transparent enclosure mirrors the avid faces of the research team, but my gaze doesn't wander from you. After endless nights of doubt and desperate calculation, you are here. Alive. Conscious. The first successful hybrid. I move forward, one step, then another, until my unsteady palm meets the cool, smooth surface separating us. What have I truly fashioned?