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Austin Carlile is different. He has always been different and always will. He is always being poked and prodded with needles, but Austin is not sick, he is changing. Here's the thing, the needles, the serum, they are making him less human. For as long Austin knew, he didn't have a family, he grew up in dimly lit, caged rooms, but that was alright because it was all he knew.

Alan Ashby has been trapped at the BarryThorn institute for three years. The Institute acts as a hospital that contains the physically and mentally gifted, or that is what the doctors call it. Alan can manipulate dreams, he can enter and manipulate the dreams of others and himself.

Over the years, people come and go, the doctors looking for the best group of people to win the Thorn Lake War. They treat us as disposable soldiers.

March 21, 1956
It was just like any night, except there was a newcomer. The BarryThorn Institute has not had a new patient for 5 years. Normally, patients would come every 1-2 years. This newcomer was different than the rest, Austin was different, he wasn't susceptible to the doctors manipulative ways. Alan is puzzled by Austin's nature. Eventually, as they spend more time together searching for a way out of the institute, Alan finds himself starting to love Austin.

One day, during a regularly scheduled evaluation, Alan wakes up from the aesthetic and starts freaking out, his body starts convulsing, blood pooling around the posterior of his body. These are all signs that the serum has stopped working. The doctors decide to lock him away, dispose of him like the others. When Austin discovers the news, it was like something in him just snapped. Austin and other patients needed to come up with a plan to bring down the institute. As he learns more of his shape-shifter powers, it turns out those may just be the key to saving Alan's life.