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Chapter 5 - Subject 001

The red folder contained a photograph of an infant labeled Baby Girl 001 and a birth date three weeks earlier than mine. The next page listed my current identity as Sabrina Elizabeth Rollins and my original identity as restricted.

A map marked three hospitals, an orphanage, and a place called Site Zero.

An old computer typed by itself:

WELCOME HOME, SUBJECT 001.

IF YOU ARE READING THIS, THE TEST HAS BEGUN.

A printer produced tomorrow's newspaper. The front page accused me of five murders, including Detective Harris. Another photograph showed me at six beside an identical little girl. On the back: One survived. One disappeared.

I remembered a carousel and someone calling me Sarah.

A timer appeared. 29:59.

A wall opened to a clean white corridor. A wheelchair waited there. The old man seated in it looked like Detective Harris, only decades older.

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"Dad?"

The missing detective gripped his son's wrist. "You have to get her out. The experiment never ended. Sabrina was never supposed to remember either."

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