Project: SIN.

Augustus Shade thought rock bottom had a basement. Turns out, it has a laboratory. At eighteen, branded the Son of Gluttony and discarded by a world that never wanted him, Augustus is transferred to a facility that doesn't bother pretending to be merciful. Here, boys like him aren't patients. They're weapons in progress.

The others have been here longer. Leith, built like a war crime and carrying Wrath like a birthright. Greyson, quiet, smiling, already counting the value of everything Augustus owns. Loros and Larai, fractured in different ways, circling him like twin vipers. Satolas, asleep more often than awake - which somehow makes him worse. Evan, who watches him the way predators measure distance.

No one welcomes him. They assess him. Because in this place, power isn't the only currency - survival is.