He Should Have Stayed Dead
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Vincent Meco used to be someone. The renowned nuclear physicist of southeastern Europe. Genius. A name worth something.
Now he’s just "Scabby"—burned, broken, and rotting in a hospital bed with a cockroach nesting at the base of his skull. The doctors say he's recovering. The voice in his head, which sounds an awful lot like himself, says otherwise: "You died in Albania. They just forgot to bury you."
After months wasting away in a hospital bed—scarred, half-forgotten, and half-mad—Vincent "Scabby" Meco is offered a way out. A position as a nuclear technician. Access to facilities and materials once locked behind clearance levels he’d never dreamed of touching. They tell him it’s a second chance. That his mind is too rare, too valuable, to be left to rot.
And he believes them.
What begins as salvation quickly curdles into something else—claustrophobic, cold, and wrong. It’s not the work that unsettles him. The way the corridors feel like they were built for someone like him. The way the job was waiting.
He wasn’t chosen for his talents. He was prepared.
KorTac doesn’t recruit.
KorTac collects.
And Vincent Meco was marked long before the offer ever came.