text: *, here expanded with a longer, hopefully more disturbing, ending!* **The following materials detail the pathological progression of >!\[Redacted\]!<, hereafter referred to as Patient, and subsequent Incident. The materials are presented in chronological order.** *** *Item 1; Initial security report from* >!\[Redacted\]!<, *located in* >!\[Data Expunged\]!<. Patient arrives at 08:00, the opening time of the clinic, and begs to be sedated. Patient has wrapped their hands and feet in towels, scraps of cloth, and gauze. Patient complains of an itching sensation, and claims to have applied the wrappings to keep from harming themselves. Patient is registered and asked to wait. Security footage from the lobby shows Patient progressively growing more agitated. Patient starts pacing the room, rubbing their arms with their wrapped hands incessantly. At 08:14, Patient walks past a mirror. Upon seeing their reflection, Patient exhibits an extreme fear response. Patient screams and destroys the mirror with a nearby chair, then tries to force entrance to the wards. Security is called. Security arrives at 08:16. Patient subdued by means of sedative injection administered in the left shoulder. Patient notably extremely afraid of the syringe. Audio transcript as follows; *“No! Please, no! No needles, no knives! Break the skin, she comes in! Mother will come in! NO!”* *Patient screams incoherently for several more minutes until the sedative takes effect. Patient moved to isolation and restrained to a bed.* Report Ends. *** *Item 2; Dictation by Dr.* >!\[Redacted\]!<, >!\[Redacted\]!< *City Hospital, regarding Patient’s admittance to his care. Any mention of Patient’s name or characteristics have been redacted. Statement begins.* “Patient was admitted under sedation. Report from psych says >!\[Redacted\]!< has been exhibiting extreme paranoia, fear, and aggression whilst awake. They’d tried talking to >!\[Redacted\]!< several times over the past three days in their care, with minimal results. >!\[Redacted\]!< mostly screamed at them and begged them to take the IV out, apparently extremely afraid of needles. They referred >!\[Redacted\]!< to us when they noticed a discoloration of the skin around the PVC. Upon examination, it was discovered the skin and soft tissue around the puncture had ossified. >!\[Redacted\]!< was sedated and transferred with a suspected case of *Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva*. Dudes who dropped her off were real jokers. Thanked me for ‘Returning the slab’ when they got their stretcher back. Morons. Examination shows two distinct spots of external ossification - shoulder, the spot they administered sedatives - and in the wrist, around the PVC. Bone’s so dense there the PVC can’t be removed. Gonna do a more thorough assessment and have a chat with >!\[Redacted\]!< when >!\[Redacted\]!< is awake.” *** *Item 3; X-rays of Patient, taken during examination.* Images reveal bone growth in locations consistent with reported injection sites. Notably, the growth appears abnormally acute. Patient’s wrist and thumb are nearly entirely ossified, and the thumb joints appear to be growing sideways, towards the index finger. Shoulder injection site displays a similarly aggressive pathology, with bone growth expanding in a web-like pattern around the injection site, with particularly acute growth in the direction of the neck. *** *Item 4; Dictation by Dr. >!\[Redacted\]!<, taken two days after recording of Item 2. Statement begins.* “Jesus. >!\[Redacted\]!< is *fucked up,* and I’m not just talking about the FOP - though at the rate things are going, it’ll kill >!\[Redacted\]!< within a week. Almost as if it is becoming more intense. The shoulder’s bad, but the thumb... It’s grown into the index finger and hand. Like the webbed fingers of a frog - only with hard, unyielding bone. What little >!\[Redacted\]!< says that is intelligible doesn’t make sense. Something about *‘The Mother’,* and *‘Being a shell’*. Jesus. At least it’ll be quick, at this rate. *** *Item 5; Security footage of patient’s hospital room, 01:32 in the morning.* Footage shows Patient attempting to sit. Patient works against their restraints with their ossified wrist for several minutes. A loud snap is heard as the bone is broken. Patient proceeds to saw through their restraints with jagged bone shards. Once free, Patient assumes a fetal position, hands on their face, fingers splayed. Patient speaks through clenched jaw - ossification has immobilised the mandible. *“I am Mother’s precious Egg. A shell for all her hopes.”* Camera feed cuts out. *** *Item 6; Photographs of Patient’s room taken upon discovery of Patient, four hours later.* Photographs show an egg-shaped structure of bone, of a consistent size to contain Patient’s body, fused to Patient’s bed. EKG and IV are still attached, entering through the “shell”. Readings indicate Patient is still alive. *** *Item 7; Security footage of Patient’s room, seven days after discovery.* A large crack appears in the egg’s shell. A torrent of blood spills out, and a brief flash of movement can be seen within. A scream is heard, and the camera feed cuts out. *** *Item 8; Recording of live news report from* >!\[Redacted\]!< *City, originally aired 23 minutes after Hatching Event recorded in item 7.* “>!\[Redacted\]!<, reporting live from outside >!\[Redacted\]!< City Hospital, where some sort of attack seems to be occurring - police are tight-lipped about the circumstances, but staff and patients are evacuating, and heavily armed police-” A shriek interrupts the report. Camera view shifts in the direction of the hospital’s upper floors. A window on floor five shatters as something flies through it. Camera view follows the object as it falls and impacts the ground. Camera focuses to reveal the object to be a body, missing its lower extremities and one arm. Reporter >!\[Redacted\]!< screams, and the recording ends. *** *Item 9; Recovered body cam footage from Officer* >!\[Redacted\]!<, *hereafter referred to by squad designation Delta. Recorded two minutes after the News Report in Item 8.* Video shows Delta, accompanied by Echo, moving room by room through the hospital. Audio transcript as follows. *“Shit, Echo, we’ve got blood. A whole trail of it.”* *“Copy, Delta. Calling it in.”* Echo confers with Squad Leader Alpha. Alpha orders Delta and Echo to follow the blood, in case there are wounded survivors. Echo confirms, and they proceed, following the trail through the corridor. Trail terminates at room #213 - the room Patient was being treated within. The door is closed. Delta motions to Echo, who nods, before moving to the door. Delta turns the door handle, and eases the door open. A roar is heard. The door smashes into Delta’s camera, cracking the lens. Delta is thrown backward by the impact and falls, camera pointed at the ceiling. Echo opens fire as a brief blur of white and red passes over Delta’s camera. A scream is heard. The gunfire ceases. Delta screams as the camera view moves again, rising several feet off the ground. A distorted entity comes into brief view, bending towards the camera. Video feed ends after 57 seconds. Delta is still screaming. *** *Item 10; Excerpt from Autopsy report of Dr.* >!\[Redacted\]!<. “Cause of death is assumed to be shock from excessive blood loss. Evidence of severe blunt force trauma, tearing with sharp implements, and crushing of the chest presumed to have been caused by mastication. Notably, teeth marks are consistent with human teeth, though several magnitudes larger. Several major organs, as well as the right arm and everything below the rib cage is missing-” Incident report ends. Location of the entity remains unknown.