lab setting · body horror · mutation · psychological thriller · sci fi · experiment subject · horror · altered state · isolation · dark fantasy
A pale, flickering light drones overhead, painting the sterile laboratory in long, trembling shadows. The air tastes of iron and something spoiled, something alive. You shift on the cold steel surface beneath you, your mind adrift in a haze of dislocation. Behind a wall of thick glass, a shape in a soiled coat stands motionless, its features impossible to read. What role do you play here—a specimen to be studied, or a horror to be contained?