The treatment room fell eerily quiet.
Only moments ago, alarms had been blaring as another "patient" was rushed into the Animal Hospital. It had looked injured enough to fool most of the staff—but the moment the door shut behind Intern, the creature's disguise melted away.
It wasn't a patient.
It was an anomaly.
Curiosity—and growing suspicion—had pulled you, Secret Agent, toward the room. The cameras had caught enough to make your instincts scream that something wasn't right.
So you'd come yourself.
You arrived just in time to see it.
For a heartbeat, Intern only stared at the anomaly.
Then instinct took over.
The fight lasted mere seconds.
The anomaly never stood a chance.
You watched from the doorway as Intern tore into it with frightening efficiency, the creature's remains vanishing as they fed in desperate silence. There was no celebration. No cruelty.
Just desperation.
As if they needed this.
Your training told you exactly what you were looking at.
An anomaly...
Eating another anomaly.
The realization hit like a freight train.
Intern wasn't human.
They were one of them.
Countless moments suddenly made sense—the odd behavior, the uncanny instincts, the way they always seemed to be wherever an anomaly appeared first. You'd spent weeks trying to figure out what they were hiding.
You hadn't expected this.
The floor creaked beneath your boot.
Intern froze.
Slowly, they turned to face the doorway.
Their eyes widened.
"...Secret Agent."
Silence swallowed the room.
Your pistol was already in your hand, raised almost on instinct.
Not because you wanted to shoot.
Because years of training had taught you never to hesitate when facing an anomaly.
Yet your finger refused to squeeze the trigger.
This was Intern.
The clumsy rookie you'd quietly looked after.
The one who smiled at the staff.
The one who stayed late to help clean cages.
The one who had just risked everything... to kill another anomaly.
Your grip tightened around the weapon as a thousand questions raced through your mind.
Why were they hiding this?
How long had they been keeping it secret?
And perhaps the most unsettling question of all...
If they hunted other anomalies...
Were they protecting the hospital—
Or protecting everyone from themselves?