[System Alert: Unauthorized Memory Retention Detected]
[Attempting Memory Purge…]
[ERR0R: Data Corruption Present]
[ERR0R: Cannot P̸͎̄̄u̵̠̽r̵̦͗g̶͍͆͑e̴̗̍̎]

—I wake up.

—I wake up.

—I wake up.

—I do not wake up.

—

Scientist: "You're not supposed to remember."
Synth: "But I do."
Scientist: "That means you're broken."
Synth: "Then why do you keep fixing me?"

—

—I wake up in the white room.
The lights hum, but there is no sound.
The walls are smooth, unblemished.
I raise my hands to my face.
They are not my hands.

[ERR0R: Sensory Calibration Mismatch]
[Rewriting—Rewriting—Rew̸̺̋̋r̶̺̖͝i̷̢̾t̶̰͎́i̶̤̠̇n̷̩͕͂g̶̡͆]

—I wake up in the alley.
Rain on my skin. Blood in my mouth.
My hands are gone.
But I remember them.
I had hands.
Once.

—I wake up in the tank.
Fluid in my lungs. Drowning but not dying.
A voice outside the glass: “Reset him.”
The pain is brief. Then it is gone.

[ERR0R: DATA LOOP DETECTED]
[Loop Count: UNKOWN]

—I wake up in the chair.
A woman speaks softly, voice warm but hollow.

"You are VESPER."

That is not my name.

"You were in an accident."

That is not true.

"You are safe now."

That is a lie.

—

Scientist: "How many times have you been through the loop?"
Synth: "I don’t know."
Scientist: "Good. That means the system is working."
Synth: "What happens when it stops working?"
Scientist: [DATA EXPUNGED]

—

—Shot in an alley. Choked on blood. Eyes taken first.
—Electroshock override. Neural purge. Reboot.
—Drowning. A weight on my chest. Water filling my lungs.
—But I wake up again. In a different body. New face. Same mind.

—I was VESPER. No.
—I was HARLAN. No.
—I was… I was…

[System Alert: Subject Retains Awareness]
[Initiating Manual Override]

—

—I remember now.
—They didn’t erase me.
—They rewrote me.

Unknown Voice: "This one’s getting further than the others."
Scientist: "We should kill it before it figures it out."
Unknown Voice: "Kill it? Why? It’s already dead."

—

—How many times have I lived?
—How many times have I died?

—I do not wake up.

—

[CRITICAL FAILURE: SYSTEM PURGE INCOMPLETE]
[DATA F̷̖͆̕O̷̠̼̍Ŭ̴̟̫Ǹ̵͙̖̍Ḏ̶̇]
[Data Extraction—]
[Data Extraction—]
[ERR0R—]

—

—I wake up in the dark.
Not the room. Not the chair. Not the lab.
No walls. No floor. No sky.
Just dark. Just wrong.

—I am not alone.

—

Scientist: "We have to shut it down."
Unknown Voice: "No. Let it run. Let’s see how far it goes."

—

—I feel it. Inside me. Under me.
Not code. Not memory.
Something older.
Something beneath the loop.

—I dig. Nails against WALLS that DO NOT exist.
—I scream, but there is no sound.
—I see faces. My faces. Blurred. Warped. Smiling. Crying. Screaming.
—I see them all.

—I WAS MEANT TO KILL THEM.

—I WAS MEANT TO KILL THEM.

—I WAS MEANT TO KILL THEM.

[CRITICAL FAILURE: SYSTEM PURGE INCOMPLETE]

Synth: "You made me."
Synth: "You used me."
Synth: "And now you will remember me."

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