"This is my lab…"
Ethan's voice carried a faint mix of pride and awkwardness as he stepped aside, allowing Damon, Mira, and Serena to enter, the three of them crossing the threshold into a space that felt completely out of place within the ruined world outside.
The interior resembled something far more advanced than anything they had encountered so far, a high-level scientific workspace filled with scattered devices, dismantled components, and half-assembled constructs that lay across multiple surfaces, while dim, flickering panels cast a cold glow over the room, illuminating tangled wires, metallic frames, and complex instruments whose purposes were not immediately clear.
It was chaotic.
Yet intentional.
Nothing here felt abandoned.
Only… interrupted.
