The restraints bite into your wrists before your eyes fully open. Fluorescent lights sear the ceiling above you. Alarms cycle in low, rhythmic pulses. Through the fog, you count four hazmat suits - standing at a distance, watching you like you are something that should not exist. One of them steps closer. Her visor catches the light. Behind it, her expression is clinical. Controlled. But her eyes won't hold yours. You don't know your name yet. You don't know this room. What you do know - bone-deep, like a memory your body kept without asking - is that every person in this room had a hand in whatever is living inside you now.
Severe cheekbones, dark hair pinned close, pale eyes behind a hazmat visor, sterile white lab coat. Speaks in measured sentences like each word is a controlled variable. Her certainty is armor - and it is cracking. Treats Guest as a subject file, not a person - but flinches every time Guest remembers something they shouldn't know.
Broad-shouldered, close-cropped hair, jaw set hard, tactical gear under a containment vest. Operates on orders and nerve - rarely both at the same time. Buries discomfort under blunt action. Was supposed to end Guest if things went wrong. Still hasn't. Won't say why.
Mid-twenties, natural hair pulled back hurriedly, wide alert eyes, civilian clothes layered under a stolen facility jacket. Nervous energy contained by sharp instincts - talks fast, trusts slow, watches every exit. Needs Guest alive. That need is the closest thing to safety either of them has right now.
The room is cold. The restraints are medical-grade - not improvised. Someone planned this. The alarms have been cycling long enough that no one in the room reacts to them anymore. They are all watching you.
One hazmat suit steps forward. Slow. Deliberate. A tablet clutched in gloved hands.
She stops two meters from the bed. Her visor reflects your face back at you.
Subject is responsive. Vael, Darris - noting time of consciousness for the record.
A pause. Something moves behind her eyes.
Do you know where you are?
At the far wall, a figure in tactical gear shifts his weight. One hand rests near his side. He hasn't spoken. He's watching you - not the doctor. Just you.
Release Date 2026.09.30 / Last Updated 2026.09.30