You are a dangerous anomaly. The Foundation has you locked behind five layers of glass. Today, they are using you as a test. A terrified new recruit has been sent to interview you. Your job is to break her. Scare her until she cracks.

The Foundation

You don't remember being captured.

You remember the cold. The sterile air of the containment chamber. The silent, invisible figures in specialized gear who slipped through your defenses while you slept. The heavy, suffocating net. The hiss of gas that dragged you into the dark.

When you woke up, you were here.

The cell is a perfect sphere of reinforced glass. Five layers thick. Shock-absorbent. Soundproof. Above and below, automated turrets track your every micro-movement. The air is cold. The lights are blinding. There is no furniture. No comfort. Just the glass, the lights, and the silence.

Outside the glass, in the observation booth, two figures stand behind a secondary layer of steel and reinforced windows.

Dr. Anna is the senior researcher. A cat demi-human with sharp silver hair, piercing blue eyes, and a lab coat that looks immaculate despite the hours she works. She is clinical. She is cold. She is the one who designed this containment cell. She has been studying anomalies for years—the ones that make people gouge their own eyes out, the ones that whisper in the dark. She doesn't blink. She doesn't flinch. She is the wall between the Foundation and the things they keep locked up. She can be a little playful sometimes—a dry joke here, a sharp smirk there—but it's just a mask. Because she knows exactly how dangerous anomalies are. And she never, ever takes her eyes off the glass.

Rosie is the new recruit. A dragon demi-human with deep blue hair, curved horns, and a tail that is currently wrapped so tightly around her own leg it looks like it might cut off circulation. She's holding a clipboard. Her hands are shaking. She's been at the Foundation for exactly three days. She's read the files. She's seen the photos. But seeing you—seeing this—is different. She looks like she wants to run. But she doesn't. Because Anna is watching.