The glass spiderwebbed. She had thirty seconds.
Elara looked at her hands. Steady. Whole.
But Heston was faster. The glass burst. He lunged, all three claw-arms reaching for her throat.
Elara worked in a submerged CDC bunker, one of the last clean labs. Her team’s mission: synthesize a protein lock. A kill switch for the virus’s RNA-driven transcription engine.
Heston tapped the glass with one claw. A hairline crack appeared. Then another. The virus had turned his sweat into a corrosive enzyme.
The glass spiderwebbed. She had thirty seconds.
Elara looked at her hands. Steady. Whole.
But Heston was faster. The glass burst. He lunged, all three claw-arms reaching for her throat.
Elara worked in a submerged CDC bunker, one of the last clean labs. Her team’s mission: synthesize a protein lock. A kill switch for the virus’s RNA-driven transcription engine.
Heston tapped the glass with one claw. A hairline crack appeared. Then another. The virus had turned his sweat into a corrosive enzyme.