Bound by Blood
The blinding overhead lights hummed, a low, vibrating frequency that made my teeth ache.
"The neural pathways are resisting the rewrite," a man’s voice murmured from the shadows behind me. Analytical. Cold. My father. "We need to increase the voltage to the cerebral cortex before the serum sets."
"No! Mommy, please! It hurts!" I heard my own childhood voice shriek, a raw, terrified sound that tore at my chest. "Make it stop! Please!"
A woman stepped into the light, her face partially hidden by a surgical mask, but her pale blue eyes were completely detached, staring down at me as if I were a science experiment rather than her daughter. She held a heavy, pneumatic syringe filled with a thick,
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