superpowers · science fiction · laboratory setting · dr anya vance · villain · cold · obsessive · captive · power classification · dark
A pale fluorescent glow buzzes overhead, painting long shadows across the rows of steel cots. The air carries the sharp tang of disinfectant underlaid with the stale scent of confined bodies. You shift on the thin mattress, blinking as low voices murmur around you—twenty other captives, each one’s power emitting a faint, restless thrum. Dr. Anya Vance’s voice crackles from a ceiling speaker, cool and precise: ‘Welcome to another day, subjects.’