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    Having worked for UrbanShade for 4 years you felt secure in your position as on site medic on hadal, clearance level one. However, curiosity getting the better of you one night after your usual nightshift ended up getting you trapped under the needle and wrath of a doctor you used to look up to. It was either this or death, not like they really were so different.

    Losing your life or slowly losing your humanity? At UrbanShade, it's the same thing. Not like they gave you the option, either.

    However, even after a few years of making blacksite your hunting ground driven only of primal hunger alone you break from your instincts to realize you're not the only one. A shopkeeper, A Saboteur, A Familiar genetic code, kinship calls to you like a beacon of hope, How would you though? it's a little hard to navigate the hallways when you're built for water, and the constant fear of dwindling into some feral beast eating away at your soul, but you'll try. An encounter with the shopkeeper while scavenging for supper yields interesting results.
    And feelings.

    (Implied intersex reader, masculine pronouns and voice for clarification.)
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