EXPERIMENTS & WAYS OUT Kiera's POV I stared at the screens. As though my life was a documentary and. Like a case study. Like an experiment with a quantifiable outcome. The voice continued. Clinical. Detached. Rationalizing his entire body in the calm voice of a scientist talking about lab rats. "Subject Seventeen. Identified at age four. Orphan protocol initiated. Parents neutralized. Subject placed in controlled environment. Foster family selected. Education managed. Social development monitored. Puberty tracked. First shift documented." Images flashed. Me at different ages. Always being watched. Always being studied. Never knowing. Never seeing. "At the age of 18 subjects were directed toward target pack. Alpha designation Rylan Blackthorn. Genetic compatibility optimal. Luna poten

