Adam couldn't believe what he was hearing.
No, believe wasn't even the right word. He couldn't process it. An experimental monster? That phrase alone sounded wrong, like reality itself had stuttered.
"What do you mean by experimental?" Adam asked, his voice slower now, as if saying the words too fast would make them real.
Part of him still hoped he had misunderstood. That maybe this was some obscure classification, some rare variant he hadn't studied yet. Vanessa destroyed that hope with her next words.
"A Mind Geist is not a naturally formed monster," she said evenly. "It was created in a laboratory."
Something in Adam snapped.
Monsters were enemies. Existential threats. Things humanity was supposed to erase, not recreate.
And yet people had looked at them and decided they could make more.
The thought alone repulsed him.
He didn't care what excuse they used.
He didn't care what justification they hid behind.
