The Arctic lab was buried under a frozen ocean, a fortress of steel and ice that no one could reach without permission. Anna’s intelligence had pinned it down to a single coordinate weeks earlier, and tonight they moved in like ghosts, Cedric leading the charge, Gianni and Anna right at his side, guns silent, hearts louder.Inside, the corridors stretched forever, lined with doors that opened into a nightmare. Row after row of incubation tanks, each one glowing with cold blue light. Inside every tank was a child, Cedric’s face, Cedric’s features, Cedric’s blood, but younger, smaller, eyes already empty.There were dozens of them. Some were barely out of the tank, still soft and fragile. Others were fully grown, tall and strong, already dressed in black tactical gear, faces blank as if the world had never touched them.Cedric stopped in the center of the room, staring at them, the sight hitting him like a punch to the gut. “They’re me. They’re all me.”Gianni’s hand clamped on his shou
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