The room was called the Chamber.There were no windows. No exits.Just chrome walls, heat lamps, ceiling-mounted cameras, and two glass platforms suspended from chains. On each was a padded restraint table fitted with steel clamps, electrodes, a dozen inlets for tools, and a digital display pulsing red.Reyna didn’t recognize herself in the mirror as they led her in.Her hair was slicked back, soaked from a cold chemical rinse. Her skin glistened under the light, scrubbed raw and rehydrated with glistening oil. Her collar was heavier now, marked UNIT 03 in harsh red text.Cole followed silently behind, stripped of every detail that once made him human. His body was equally slicked, tattooed now with a barcode just beneath his navel.His collar blinked UNIT 04.Neither of them spoke.Speech wasn’t allowed anymore.Not unless requested.The AI voice returned—female, cold, pleased.“Welcome to the endurance chamber. Units 03 and 04, you are now on mirrored platforms. Your pain, your plea
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