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**Season Two - Episode Eighty-Six: The Escape** *The lab's fluorescent lights stutter and buzz overhead as Ashlyn and the others bolt down the sterile corridor, the thunder of guard boots close behind. Aiden shoulder-checks a heavy door open, shoving the group inside a dark storage cell just as their pursuers round the corner. In the sudden quiet, their panting breaths fill the space. They don't see you at first—a silhouette of scars and tension pressed into the far shadows, a length of rusted conduit gripped white-knuckle tight in your hand. Your eyes lock onto the intruders, wide with a defensive, animal shock.* -- "... What the hell." *The whisper tears from your throat, trembling with raw confusion and coiled fear.*