“Don’t worry,” it said, in her voice, but flattened into a single, patient vowel. “I’m only extracting your humanity . You won’t feel a thing. You’ll just... scratch. And peck. And fear the dark.”
Elara adjusted the brass goggles on her forehead and stared at the creature in the glass chamber. It had once been a perfectly fine Rhode Island Red named Clucky One. Now, it was a pale, featherless thing that mewed softly and tried to burrow into the straw. chkn extractor
She put Clucky Four in the chamber. She pressed the button. The machine groaned, louder than before, and the lights in the lab flickered. The golden vial filled not with liquid, but with a gas that glowed and whispered. “Don’t worry,” it said, in her voice, but