This is alienating but in an almost suave way. I don't know, perhaps it's the sound of the Gregorian chant, but there's some sort of levitas in the description of those serial experiments, in the reactions of the specimen and obviously in the end. All this creates an even more hopeless scenario. Very interesting (as always) I'm happy that you're late because I wouldn't have known how to do with your amazing ending :-P It doesn't matter if you're on time or not, keep writing because it's a pleasure to read your creations Ale!