Third Person POV
The voice filled everything. "Let us begin again." There was no direction to it. It was not from the walls. Not from the screens. Not from any speaker. It was inside the space itself. Then the world went white. Not bright white. Not light. A full white state where depth, distance, and shape stopped working. Alaric could not feel the floor anymore. Lily could not feel her hands. Dr. Ward could not feel her breath. Meadow was the only one still standing clearly in the same position, but even she looked like she was fading at the edges. Run 5 Alaric was still visible. But he was breaking into lines of light. Like his body was being rewritten frame by frame.
