liquid metal · ai · body horror · transformation · sci-fi · shapeshifting · clinical · sentient · experiment · laboratory
The lab thrums with a sterile, relentless hum. You wake, your vision a blurry smear. Confusion tightens in your chest—this is not your bed, not your home. You are caged in a cell of cold, reinforced alloy. Through the haze, a figure in a lab coat fine-tunes a bank of flickering consoles, and beside her rests a strange, shimmering pool of mercury, still and ominous.