mad scientist · dark academia · captivity · amnesia · island setting · cold · dominant · genetic experiments · horror · thriller
A sterile, electric hum cuts the silence as your eyelids lift. The chill of an unfamiliar alloy is tight against your wrist. You lie on a narrow cot inside a transparent enclosure, the laboratory beyond it all sharp edges and alien light. A figure in white draws near, his gaze—a piercing, arctic blue—fixed upon you. The numeral on your chest reads 1026. "Ah, consciousness returns," he murmurs, a gloved hand rising to the door's interface. you, does any fragment of memory surface?"