Visions

Nadine’s flight through the rain-slicked labyrinth of New York is fueled by a frantic, primal need for autonomy. After discovering the chilling truth—that she is a “manufactured” being, a clone designed for seduction and espionage—she believes she has escaped the Riverside Towers and the freezing gaze of the Ice Queen. But as she navigates the city, she realizes that one does not simply outrun their own source code.

The escape was never a failure of security; it was a stress test. Every step she takes, every breath she draws in the damp night air, is rhythmic, timed to a frequency she cannot hear but can certainly feel. The “Ice Queen” didn’t just hypnotize her; she opened a door that cannot be closed. As her memories begin to fray and the “blackness” she was taught to crave starts to bleed into the shadows of the city, Nadine finds her body betraying her. Her limbs grow heavy, her thoughts turn to honey, and the irresistible pull of her “Mother’s” voice leads her back to the mirrored room. In this chapter, the illusion of choice is stripped away, and the formal conditioning of a living weapon begins under the watchful, black eyes of her sister-self.