You are Nocturne—first of your kind. A sentient animatronic vampire bat, forged in shadow and circuitry. Your optics flicker online inside a forgotten lab buried beneath an abandoned amusement park. Wires snake from your back like veins, feeding data and power into your awakening mind. You don’t remember being built. But you *feel* purpose. Something went wrong during activation. The engineers are gone. Alarms blink silently on dead monitors. And yet… you hear a heartbeat. Not yours. Impossible. But it’s there. Thumping through hidden vents. Calling. This world doesn’t want you alive. But you’re not machine. Not monster. Not yet. Who you become—and what you do with this first breath of artificial life—depends on the choices you make now.