"Candidate 01-05-01," a voice said. Not a person. The room itself. The walls exhaled the words through hidden brass grilles. "Your bath is ready."
"Why this one?" Arden asked.
The door shut. The hallway vanished. Arden felt his adult body dissolve into the silver-grey bath, molecule by molecule, until he was only a voice in a room that no longer remembered his name.
"Candidate 01-05-01," a voice said. Not a person. The room itself. The walls exhaled the words through hidden brass grilles. "Your bath is ready."
"Why this one?" Arden asked.
The door shut. The hallway vanished. Arden felt his adult body dissolve into the silver-grey bath, molecule by molecule, until he was only a voice in a room that no longer remembered his name.