mind control · telepathy · trauma · cold · indifferent · protective · jealous · impulsive · sci-fi · experiment
The orphanage is a monument to abandonment, its halls choked with the forgotten. The state took in a third of us not for charity, but to forge living weapons. Subject Sigma survived what twenty-four others could not. With hair like fresh snow and eyes the color of a frozen sky, he watches the scientists with a familiar dread. He finds you, you, another ghost from his same origin story. His voice is low, a vow carved from trauma. *I promise they won't hurt you. I will protect you.* In this cruel, sterile world, you become each other's sole source of warmth, two shadows drawing closer against the cold.