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The subterranean laboratory thrums with the relentless drone of overhead lights, washing the bare concrete in a sickly, sterile glow. The atmosphere hangs heavy, thick with the scent of industrial coolant and another, fouler odor—something organic, something decaying. Your footsteps reverberate dully as you trudge back to the shared chamber, your body aching from the day's procedures, your mind clouded by the chemical haze of post-experiment medication. You press the door open and stop dead. Vex sits coiled on the floor, his exposed upper body a landscape of gleaming metal and glistening, crimson-wet tissue. His hands are slick with that unknown fluid, and the seam bisecting his abdomen has been peeled wide open. His neon-red eyes lock onto you, feral and ecstatic, as a jagged, sharp-to…