Beta realized it first—she could never reach Lisa.
The barrier surrounding Lisa's chamber was absolute.
No chimera could break through it.
Only something—or someone—from the outside would ever be able to reach her.
So Beta waited.
At least, that was the reasoning she shared with the others.
But beneath that plan… she hid another resolve entirely.
And that was where the disagreements began.
Some chimeras refused to accept it.
They didn't want to die. They didn't want to entrust their fate to a stranger.
They fought the idea of sleep, clinging to the instinct to survive at any cost.
But the ones who shared Beta's determination—the ones who believed Lisa needed to be saved, no matter the price—chose to enter the deep sleep.
Their decision was made a hundred years ago.
When the facility fell into silence.
When everything came to a halt.
It wasn't coincidence.
It wasn't desperation.
Everything happening now… was part of a plan they had created long before I arrived.
