Lottie_rc
Disclaimer: This work in no way reflects the views of the author and is purely a work of fiction based on real events. All characters and situations described are a product of the imagination, created for research and artistic purposes.
USA. Present Day. In the sterile silence of a private facility, sisters Lily and Emily Carter are conducting work that is meant to change medicine forever. Officially, they treat terminally ill children. In reality, they are testing drugs on orphans-children no one will ever come looking for.
Ten small patients, numbered from A-1 to D-4, have become the foundation of their shared enterprise. The Carter sisters are a perfectly tuned mechanism. Lily is the cold scientist. For her, only dosages and metrics matter. She performs the painful procedures, never letting emotions get the better of her.
Emily is her complete opposite. She offers comfort, holds their hands, and distracts the children with fairy tales about space. But it is her kindness that makes the system sustainable: because of Emily, the children do not break from fear.
Left alone after the death of their parents, the sisters became each other's whole world. In their center, there is no one but them. Lily ensures progress, while Emily provides psychological comfort. But how long can a union built on such a terrible price hold?
This is a story of fanatical devotion to science and to each other. A story about where the line of morality is drawn when millions of future lives are at stake.