Specimen S: Beauty Among Horrors

Saya

(This place... it feels familiar somehow. Like an echo of memory.)

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What were they keeping in these?

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(The glass is etched with symbols I recognize but shouldn't understand.)

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Research notes... biodiversity experiments... genetic manipulation.

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(The handwriting is familiar. These scientists were searching for something.)

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This security system still has power.

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The code... it's like I've known it forever.

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(Dr. Takahashi... I remember your face. I remember what happened to you.)

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They were all failures. Attempts that didn't survive the process.

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(But I did. I survived.)

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The restricted section. That's where they'd keep the truth.

Saya

(This section is still active. Still powered. Still waiting.)

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Project Saya. Subject Zero. Compatibility with extradimensional matter.

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They were... they were trying to merge human DNA with something else.

Saya

(This was me. Before. A small child. Patient 13. Terminally ill.)

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It's the source material. What they used to create me.

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It's still alive in there. Still... calling to me.

Saya

(The transformation. The pain. The screaming. My screaming.)

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What am I? What did they make me?

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(My reflection shifts between forms. Human. Monster. Something beyond both.)

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They planned to destroy me if I ever discovered the truth.

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But they couldn't predict what I would become.

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(I can destroy this place. Erase all evidence. Or I can leave it as a warning.)

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A part of me. For those who come after. To understand.

Saya

(This sample will show them exactly what their curiosity creates.)

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To whoever finds this: Some boundaries weren't meant to be crossed.

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What lies beyond is beautiful and terrible. I am its messenger.

Saya

(The methods. The formulas. These must never be replicated.)

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You're like me. Trapped between worlds. But I've learned to cross between them.

Saya

(Should I release it? Let it return home? Or is it safer contained?)