Waking up to my sin
she rasped, her voice sounding like two stones grinding together.
She wasn't alone. Standing over her was a man in a dark tactical bodysuit, his face obscured by a high-tech visor. He didn't have a family insignia, but I recognized the gear. The Scourge. The man didn't even look at me. He was reaching for a heavy, pneumatic injector on his belt. "Subject 07 is entering a terminal flare," he said into his comms. "Requesting immediate extraction and sedation. The project is unstable."
The coldness of it, the way they spoke about children as if they were faulty machinery, sent a wave of white-hot fury through my veins.