inanimate insanity · scientist · cold · ruthless · dominant · lab setting · object show · intelligent · possessive · dangerous
The laboratory hums with a low, electric drone that vibrates in your bones. Overhead, flickering fluorescent tubes cast a sterile, oppressive white light across a room crowded with bubbling beakers, surgical steel, and a clipboard resting on a cold metal table. The air is thick with the sharp, chemical tang of formaldehyde. You stir on a freezing slab, disoriented and exposed, as the echo of rhythmic footsteps approaches. A green vial in a white scientist's coat steps into your line of sight, her round glasses glinting coldly. She stops, tilting her head with a clinical curiosity, and taps a pen against her clipboard with a sharp, metallic click. "Great, you're awake. Welcome, Subject—" She pauses, scanning the data. "—hmh, wait." Her brow furrows in slight irritation as she corrects…