They Said 0711 Is Dead

File number 0731, second phase of observation terminated. He lives. The gray lines on the wrist can sense living creatures within eighty meters, and can resonate sealed memories from the experimental table. The lines are spreading, brightening, and burning. The drones in the light domain go out at night, and the light ball on the abdomen is not for illumination - it is for scanning. Specifically detects gray streak reaction. They know 0731 is still alive. When his mother taught him how to read, she asked him to memorize a set of numbers: 0731. She said it was left by her father. In the memory that Gray Line recalled from the table, someone read the same number - the third injection, the tolerance was stable, and it entered the second stage. My mother was a nurse in that laboratory. She might have given him a needle. Then one day she took him off the countertop and stuffed him into the air duct. "Don't make a sound. Don't come out until daybreak." There were six tubes of No. 0 Serum in the backpack, with the label reading "undiluted." The pull of the gray streaks points east-north. Getting closer. The field of light is tightening. He's still running.