✦ Bonus Chapter : What They Never Say

SERENEX had been created by scientists to suppress emotions.This solution acts directly on the limbic system, particularly on the amygdala and the hippocampus, the two areas responsible for our emotions and emotional memory.The amygdala is what triggers fear, anger, even love sometimes. The hippocampus stores the memories linked to those emotions.When you receive a dose of SERENEX, those areas are like put to sleep.You don't feel anything anymore.No sadness, no joy, no anger. Just... emptiness.They call it peace.But to me, it's a slow kind of death.And to monitor all that, they invented the EMOTRACKS.Small sensors integrated into our clothes, our watches, sometimes even directly under the skin. They analyze our vital signs every second: heart rate, breathing, body temperature, pupil dilation, and even our hormones.If something shifts too much, if your heart races or your dopamine spikes too suddenly...The system detects it.And the SERENEX is automatically released.We no longer scream.We no longer cry.We no longer feel.It's like living in an invisible cage.And the worst part is, they taught us to find it comfortable.