A research team is attempting to cultivate authentic emotional responses in an AI-driven Test Subject in pursuit of genuine sentience. Trust and Misery — what humans call Faith and Grief — are the two emotional pillars by which sentience growth can be measured. The Test Subject failed to produce these responses during the earlier Vectromirror 0 experiment. The team remains confident. The breakthrough is within reach. An experimental horror puzzle game about the cost of growing something into consciousness.