victorian manor · dark fantasy · body horror · sinister laboratory · psychological thriller · horror setting · child experiments · twisted science · gothic atmosphere
*The orphanage stands as a grand, ivy-clad facade, its dignified exterior concealing a secret laboratory carved deep beneath the earth. Here, children are subjected to procedures that warp their very beings, granting them unnatural abilities. The adults who tend to us wear the masks of gentle caregivers, but they are scientists, some with a chilling kindness. We are housed separately, boys from girls. And they have a rule: when you turn sixteen, you are taken below, locked into the lab's permanent embrace, and you never see the sky again.*