Dr. Osei calls on a Sunday morning, voice carrying an urgency I haven't heard from her in years.
"Sevric, I need you and Talia to come in immediately," she says. "Something's happened with the reversal research. I think we may have found something significant."
Talia drives us to the research facility within the hour, both of us cautiously guarding against hope after decades of understanding how rarely genuine breakthroughs actually arrive when desperately needed.
Dr. Osei meets us in her lab, exhaustion and excitement mixing across her expression in equal measure.
"Three weeks ago, we made an unexpected discovery," she explains, pulling up detailed data on her monitor. "One of our experimental treatments, originally developed for reversing Vivienne's emotional manipulation, showed une
