Everything felt stiff and suffocating inside the lab with its harsh white light and sterile. The floors were spotless, polished to the point of blindness, and the sheer reflectiveness made my temples ache badly. There was so much high-end equipment that blinked silently, each with a purpose I could identify but couldn't care less at that moment.
It should have thrilled me to see so much advanced devices. The place was state-of-the-art lab dream for any researcher, but instead my skin crawled with every step I took in the place. There was nothing but a cold and heartless reminder that I was at my wits end and I needed help from people who went by moral conducts that I didn’t believe in.
And so all I could feel was dread and disgust as Maya was wheeled in and everyone snapped into a blur o
