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The silvery table was icy to my naked flesh. The darkness of the room lent an ire and horrifying quality. My heartbeat nearly out of my chest, like a rabbit in the wild. I’d never felt so terrified before.
This wasn’t my first day in the lab, so I knew something terrible was about to happen. Something unforgiveable was about to befall me. These brown coat men and women grinned as if they’d just cured cancer—not that I knew what cancer was back then.
They seemed to take joy in the suffering they inflected maliciously upon me, and all my brothers and sisters.
“Today, we will inject her with the new XJ-Strain.”
The leading brown coat told the other brown coats. I shivered on the table, my body marred with a litany of freshly closed wounds from their cutting and experimenting. Noth
