Present Day - Underground Facility, Four Years Later
Sophie sits across from Dr. Elizabeth Reeves in a room designed to look like a normal child psychologist's office.
Bright colors, toys scattered on shelves, comfortable chairs sized for both adults and children.
But nothing about this assessment is normal.
The eight-year-old girl answering questions with the vocabulary of a graduate student represents the culmination of humanity's most ambitious social experiment.
And everyone in the facility is terrified of what they might discover about who she's become.
"How are you feeling today, Sophie?" Dr. Reeves asks, her voice carefully neutral.
"Analytically curious about the assessment parameters, emotionally concerned about the implications of whatever data you collect, and psychologic
