Chapter 208 - DREAM II

Young Abigail floated within a sterile tube, her body suspended in a viscous, luminescent fluid that shimmered with an unnatural sheen, its properties alien and unyielding. Around her, other children, no older than fifteen, endured the same grim fate, their faces pale and drawn, eyes hollow with the weight of despair. The laboratory was a cold, clinical prison, its walls lined with humming machinery and monitors that blinked with indifferent precision, cataloging the suffering of its captives.