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ts don't

hours under the motel's weak lamp, trying to decipher its contents,

oes through my head

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: Red Room Hanseong Group. Nothing. Then: Cho

from years ago. It's full of conspiracy theorists and whistle

's a frequency. They used it to

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rhythm, emotion. What if the experiments weren't chemical,

when I'm alone, the low, constant tone that rises b

m not

eflection in the screen

of a piano room lined with red lights, the smell of steril

emember what t

the main one, but the old research annex near the bac

searching Vale Foundation + n

appears, dated five year

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nance Response in Memo

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frequencies exhibited altered emotion

hakily. So

lass wall - a tall man in a hoodie stan

ly, and my stom

ween the shelves. My pulse race

around the cor

paranoia.

and slip out through the side exit into

Daniel. Standing by a black car, phone press

Korean, voice clipped. "Yes. She found th

oat ti

ackward - and my phone

s head

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the back, trying to look casua

ibrates again.

etter judgme

hrough static. "You're in dange

s out bitter.

he says. "Please - meet me. To

he

old concert hall

l where Lina

eed answers. And if Evan want

den doors swollen from rain. I push them ope

s center stage, covered i

y old carpet. Then I see it - faint red light

se stu

panel. Beneath it, a hidden st

- the same tone from m

esc

glass walls. Old monitors flicker weakly. On the far table, I s

all, in bold

RIALS - SUBJECT

jec

of a nearby chamber. Inside are medical res

sound of my own screams, Lina's voice whispering don't

she was and who I am

s echo b

Evan say

utting across his face.

You need

quencies to rewrite memory - to implant guilt, to erase loyalty. Lina was the only o

am I?"

sh in his eyes. "You'

tens. "And you

who kil

beat, every

made me do it. She was out of control. They said she'd expose everything, th

burns hotter. "Then I guess

still running the trials. Daniel's not the head

like a spark. "Th

"If you go after him, they'll erase you a

nting between my fingers. "Then

with my heartbeat. The hum deepens unt

se - love, maybe - warring in his eyes.

want to

n we bring down Hans

wning the hall in red, I rea

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