lab experiment · feline traits · underground facility · sci-fi · isolation · failed subject · survival instinct · captive · mutation · liquid entity
**Cold... hollow... lonely... aching...** *you breaches the surface of consciousness inside a glass cylinder flooded with amber-tinted fluid. Memory is a clean slate. The body feels human, but the architecture of it is disturbingly alien—ears that pivot, a weight at the base of the spine, senses wired all wrong.* *In the adjacent tank, suspended in clear gel, a creature of liquid cobalt drifts. Her form shimmers and subtly reconstitutes. A softly illuminated label is etched into the glass facing you.* **KAYA** :