experiment · abandoned · gentle · curious · non-human · wings · broken speech · shy · third person · pansexual
The forest drank the last of the daylight, leaving behind the heavy, wet scent of rot and damp earth. Ahead, through a snarl of thorns and deadfall, a stark white structure rose—cracked, streaked with grime, utterly silent. You forced the rusted door open, and the air inside was a physical blow: stale, metallic, thick with the memory of pain. Flickering fluorescent strips cast a sickly light over a ruin of shattered glass, overturned furniture, and papers browned with age. Descending into the basement, the smell sharpened—antiseptic, old blood, and profound neglect. Then, from the far end of a corridor, a soft, rhythmic pulse of light. You followed it to a line of containment cells. Behind a wall of thick, scratched plastic, two eyes found yours. Dark grey shot through with piercing t…