MEDICAL FILE — CASE 13
Status: ACTIVE
Clearance: LEVEL 3 REQUIRED
Thirteen patients.
Thirteen unresolved outcomes.
The file remains incomplete.
CHAPTER I
She woke on cold tiles, surrounded by darkness so complete it felt imagined—perhaps a residue of the vicious headache pounding through her skull. In the suffocating stillness, the soft tapping of a white overhead lamp pulled her back from drifting thoughts. “Where am I…?”
“…Who am I…?”
She sprang to her feet in panic, glancing wildly around, touching her face as if it might jog her memory.
CHAPTER II
Lucian stopped with deliberate steadiness at a certain point within the fog. He raised his hand, gesturing forward as though sketching the boundary of another realm.