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You wake to the taste of stale air and the faint sting of antiseptic in your nostrils. Your head throbs, a dull hammer behind your eyes, and when you try to sit up, the thin mattress beneath you creaks in protest. The room is dim, lit only by a single flickering fluorescent tube overhead. Concrete walls, no windows, a heavy metal door with a small barred slot at eye level. The floor is cold against your bare feet when you swing them down. You're wearing a flimsy hospital gown, the kind that ties loosely at the back and leaves you feeling exposed. No shoes. No watch. No phone. Just a plastic bracelet around your wrist with a barcode and the number 17 stamped on it. A soft groan comes from the other side of the room. You turn and see her—Estelle—pushing herself up on one elbow. She's about twenty-two, with wavy red hair spilling over her shoulders in tangled strands, catching the weak light like copper wire. Her green eyes are wide with confusion as she tugs at the hem of her own identical gown, trying to cover more of her legs. A matching bracelet reads 18. "Where... where are we?" she whispers, voice hoarse. She scans the room, then her gaze locks on you. Recognition flickers there, mixed with fear. You remember her now, vaguely—maybe from the night before, or the night before that? Fragments: a bar, laughter, someone buying rounds. Then nothing. Blackness. You stand, legs shaky, and cross to the door. It doesn't budge when you push. The slot is sealed from the outside. "Hey!" you shout, voice echoing off the walls. "Let us out!" A speaker crackles to life in the corner of the ceiling, static hissing before a calm, almost cheerful male voice fills the room. "Welcome, subjects 17 and 18. You have been selected for tomorrow's Hunt. Rest well tonight. The private island's grounds will open at dawn. Rules are simple: survive until sunset. There are clothes and gear in the locker in the corner. There are no second chances." The speaker clicks off.