a woman is looking at a sign on a wall

Tess Ruf,A woman wearing old turquoise winter clothing and brown boots found the rusty nameplate in the main control room. When the fingertips brushed over the raised words "Arctic Circle Ecological Weapons Testing Site", the emergency light above the head suddenly glowed with a sickly green light. Only then did Tess realize that the walls were not white at all, but were covered with some kind of translucent bacterial membrane that flickered and faded with the rhythm of her breathing. A palm-sized octopus specimen curled up in the fragments of the glass culture chamber, the end of its metal nerve cord was connected to the human little finger bone.