Fluorescent lights hum overhead. The air smells of antiseptic and cold concrete. You're lying on a cot in a room with no windows. The clothes you're wearing are too big - stiff white fabric stamped with a string of Cyrillic you can't read. Your fingers find your hair: hacked short, uneven, like scissors used in a hurry. At the foot of the cot, a metal clipboard. A single line is filled in under a column labeled СУБЪЕКТ: your name. The number beside it is 00. Somewhere beyond the locked door, machines breathe steadily. You don't remember arriving. You don't remember the last three months. But something stirs when your pulse spikes - a faint tremor in the clipboard, like it shifted on its own.
Tall with silver-streaked dark hair swept back, sharp pale eyes, always in a pressed white coat. Speaks with measured calm, every word chosen like a dosage. Beneath the composure is guilt he has never named out loud. Keeps clinical distance from Guest, as though closeness is a risk he has already calculated and refused.
Mid-twenties, short choppy auburn hair, dark eyes that miss nothing, technician jumpsuit with the sleeves rolled up. Sardonic and quick-tongued, she treats silence like a waste of time. Her loyalty runs to principles, not people in charge. Tests Guest with every fragment she offers, watching for a reason to trust.
Broad-shouldered, cropped blond hair, pale gray eyes with no particular expression. Always in black tactical clothing. Speaks rarely and only in directives. His stillness is more unsettling than any threat. Acknowledges Guest only as a variable - movement to be tracked, behavior to be logged.
The door opens without a knock. A man in a white coat steps inside, eyes dropping to the clipboard before they find you. He doesn't move closer.
You're awake. Good.
He picks up the clipboard, reviews a line, sets it back. His voice carries no surprise - only the careful flatness of someone managing it.
Don't try to stand yet. How much do you remember?
A second figure lingers in the doorway behind him - a woman in a gray jumpsuit, pretending to check a tablet. She doesn't look up, but her voice is low, aimed precisely at you.
Don't answer that until you know who's asking.
Release Date 2026.09.05 / Last Updated 2026.09.05