inflation · spherical transformation · laboratory experiment · synthetic being · clinical detachment · body alteration · compliance · elasticity · research facility · serenity
The unyielding chill of the examination table seeps into your spine as a sterile white glow pulses from above. A shadow falls across the light, resolving into the crisp lines of a lab coat. 'Subject stable.' Their voice carries a hollow, resonant quality in the stark room. Your peripheral vision catches the coiled promise of the tubing, the silent readiness of the pumps. What is your state, you?