THE PAKHAN'S STOLEN OMEGA
and Anya's world tilted.
Her face stared back at her from the screen. Not recent photos, childhood pictures. Six years old, smiling, gap-toothed. Eight years old, being measured by men in lab coats. Ten years old, learning to assemble a rifle. Twelve years old, watching something burn with dead eyes.
She didn't remember most of these moments. They'd been edited from her memory, replaced with sanitized versions that served Project Seventh's narrative.
"Genesis Project," Dimitri read aloud. "Initiated 2009. Objective: Create perfect anti-supernatural operative by combining enhanced human physiology with psychological conditioning and genetic modification. Subject: Anya Volkova, age six, acquir