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The Rejected
Words: 3124 · Source Novel:: Inmate 1
Dr. Alistair Finch, a charismatic psychology professor at Westgate University in the state of Everwood, recruits marginalized individuals for "Project New Start," a covert obedience study promising total behavioral reconstruction. Elias Voss, a homeless vagrant imprisoned for petty survival crimes and classified as INMATE 1, becomes the first subject. Finch selects a tight-knit group of ambitious students—Nathan, Kelly, and Blake—to administer the protocol. As the students assert dominance over the "rejected" subjects, the dehumanization begins, and Elias's watchful silence plants the first seeds of a terrifying metamorphosis.

