$meta
  title = Biopunk
  description = Generate biopunk scenes — grown architecture, living machines, bioluminescent tissue, and the wet organic future where nothing is built that cannot heal. Twelve scenes follow one lab family from a gene taken off the shelf to the first hybrid's second heartbeat — Dr Vessel, Atten, Sister Bloom, the Child and the rest — so the world is grown in order and stays continuous from frame to frame.

generateText = {import:ai-text-plugin}
generateImage = {import:text-to-image-plugin}

// Draw n DISTINCT items. selectUnique is preferred; if it is unavailable or
// returns a short/duplicated set, fall back to a de-duplicated selectMany.
// (Without this, littleDetails x5 repeated itself in 47% of renders.)
multi(name, n=2) =>
  try {
    const uniq = arr => {
      const seen = new Set(), out = [];
      for (const i of arr) { const k = i.evaluateItem; if (!seen.has(k)) { seen.add(k); out.push(i); } }
      return out;
    };
    let items = root[name].selectUnique ? uniq(root[name].selectUnique(n)) : [];
    if (items.length < n) {
      // over-draw, de-dupe, then fall back to unique() when the list is too short
      let pool = uniq(root[name].selectMany(n * 4));
      while (pool.length < n) {
        const extra = uniq(root[name].selectMany(n * 4))
          .filter(i => !pool.some(p => p.evaluateItem === i.evaluateItem));
        if (!extra.length) break;
        pool = pool.concat(extra);
      }
      const used = new Set(items.map(i => i.evaluateItem));
      for (const p of pool) { if (items.length >= n) break; if (!used.has(p.evaluateItem)) { used.add(p.evaluateItem); items.push(p); } }
    }
    return items.slice(0, n).map(i => i.evaluateItem).join(", ");
  } catch (e) { return ""; }

# ── Subjects: what is actually happening (works in any scene) ──
bioSubject = {a bio-engineer tending a vat of tissue|a grower grafting a limb onto a sapling|a courier carrying a living organ in a warm case|a surgeon with insectile instruments|a child with luminous ribs|a xenobotanist reading spore prints|a technician milking a resin gland|a mother cradling a breathing cocoon|a diver in a lung-submarine|a priestess of the mycelium|a runner with grafted wings|a farmer of edible flesh-moss|a nurse feeding a patient by hand|a keeper of the gene library|a midwife of the first hybrid|a mechanic sealing a wound in a wall|a vendor at a wet market of organs|a gardener pruning a living bridge|a choir of throat-singers with modified larynxes|a boy teaching a polyp to count}

# ── The twelve pinned scenes, each with its own place ──
# (Every template is pinned. An earlier generic `bioSetting` pool of 20 world-wide
#  locations was removed: it let THE GRAFT render "in a bathhouse of warm mineral
#  pools" and THE SECOND HEART render "in a surgery train crossing a wetland".)
bioPageSeedVault = {a gene library with the lamps kept low for the older samples|a vault of glass wombs stacked to a ceiling of ribs|the cold end of the archive, where the oldest seeds sleep|a room of drawers labelled in two alphabets|the last shelf before the outer wall, uncatalogued|a reading desk under one green lamp, ringed in glass|a stair of bone drawers going down further than it should|the aisle where the failures are kept, out of order and out of sight}
bioPageFirstBreath = {a hatchery under one red lamp, everything breathing in time|the nursery floor, every pod turned toward the same door|a row of hatching pods with one already open|a warm room where the pods fog and clear and fog again|the middle of the hatchery, all the lids lifting a finger's width|a birthing bay of translucent membranes, lit from under the rim|the quiet hour at the hatchery when only one pod is due|a nursery ringed with watchers' chairs, all of them empty}
bioPageClinic = {a clinic of translucent membranes, the wards lit by the walls themselves|a ward where the bedding grows and is harvested and grows again|a surgery amphitheatre of bone, tiered and full|a recovery ward with a window of stretched gut-skin|a corridor that heals behind you as you walk it|a treatment room where the ceiling is the only light source|a ward of cradles, each one warm and faintly humming|the dispensary, where the medicines are still alive and in jars}
bioPageMarket = {a wet market of warm wares, every stall lit by its own goods|the organ row, priced by the pound and the hour|a market where the meat is still breathing at the counter|an alley of stalls under gland-amber lamps|the resin-and-light stalls at the market's warm heart|a square paved in polished chitin|the fish-and-fungus quarter, crowded and honest|a corner of the market given over to things grown to order}
bioPageChapel = {a chapel grown from a single root, its vault of ribs|a bone chapel lit by lamps made from firefly colonies|an apse where the walls are warm and answer to a hand|a nave of interwoven branches, moss underfoot|a shrine where the offering is water and the answer is growth|a chapel of pumping pillars, the whole room with a pulse|a stone-and-tissue chapel half swallowed by its own garden|a chapel in the roots of the old cathedral, newer and alive}
bioPageLibrary = {the deep stacks of the gene library, aisles of glowing wombs|a library of every life that was, kept in glass and cold|an archive where each shelf holds a species and a name|a reading gallery overlooking ten thousand glass wombs|the reference aisle, where nothing may be taken out|a vault of seed and tissue, catalogued down to the last gene|a library where the oldest sample is also the darkest|an index room of labelled drawers and one warm lamp}
bioPageUndertow = {a flooded undercity of kelp and valve, knee-deep and warm|a pumping station below the waterline, all heart valves|a sunken street where the lamps are fish|the flooded lower city, lit by what lives in it|a drowned arcade where the kelp has taken the arches|a tidal chamber under the city, half organism and half machine|a submerged market, the goods swimming where they were set down|the waterline district, where the buildings meet their own reflection}
bioPageVat = {a vat room of six glass tanks, each with its own lamp|a warm hall of cultured tissue, the benches worn pale|the long vat room at the back, where the medium is mixed by hand|a room of sealed tanks and one always left open|the growing hall, lit low and kept at blood heat|a vat room with the overflow channel running under the floor|the annexe where nothing has been cleaned since the first attempt|a bench under a single hood, everything within arm's reach}
bioPageGraft = {a graft bench under a ring of hoodlights|a bench cleared of everything but the work|a wet table with the instruments laid in order|a close room where the airflow has been turned off for the work|the near end of the workshop, the benches still warm|a tray lit from both sides, nothing else in frame|the seam between two living things, at four times magnification|a bench in the back room where the failures are kept}
bioPageSwarm = {the vent mouth, the air itself the subject|a screened room with one window left open|the ceiling hatch, everything below it leaning away|a corridor the swarm is using as a throat|the loading bay with the outer door jammed wide|a room whose air has gone the colour of the swarm|the intake grille, and the six people watching it|a sealed hall with one deliberate hole in it}
bioPageGiving = {a back room by a single lamp, the door locked|the small hours at a bench no one else uses|a store room between the wards, one bulb and a stool|the end of the corridor where the light stops|a quiet annexe with the shutters down|the night bench, the rest of the building dark|a corner of the nursery after the others have gone|a room she has not told anyone she uses}
bioPageSecondHeart = {a warm room with the whole family in it|the ward at dawn, the beds pushed back|a room with every lamp in it lit at once|the middle of the nursery, all the pods turned inward|the bench they have all ended up around|a room where nobody is working for once|the long ward, the family gathered at one bed|a warm room, the window cleared of condensation}

bioAct = {injecting a serum with a bone needle|sealing a graft with warm resin|listening to a patient's second heartbeat|harvesting light from a gland|reading a tissue sample by feel|naming a new organ|teaching a polyp to respond|feeding a wall so it will heal|praying over a growing seed|delivering a cocoon by lamplight|pruning a nerve-bridge|cataloguing a mutation|suturing with living thread|collecting spores at dawn|milking resin from a gland|coaxing a limb to bud|testing a hybrid's reflexes|draining a lymph canal|singing a growth to sleep|releasing a swarm of engineered moths}

# ── What the role each figure is playing in the story is ──
bioRole = {the one who started it|the one who will not be thanked for it|the one the graft was always for|the one keeping the ledger of failures|the one who has already made peace with it|the one who is not strictly allowed in here|the one who signed for it|the one it has chosen instead|the one who will give it a name|the one who has stopped taking notes|the one who came to shut it down|the one who was grown to be something else}

bioMaterial = {chitin, iridescent and plated|wet cultured tissue, veined|mycelium felt, soft and grey|translucent membrane stretched over bone|keratin grown into beams|glandular resin, amber and warm|living vascular wall, pulsing|silk spun thick as cable|carapace varnished like lacquer|photosynthetic skin, green and glowing|bone lattice, porous and pale|living cartilage, blue-white and smooth|scale-work tiled like a roof|membrane drawn clear as glass}

bioTechnique = {a graft clamped and left to take on its own|a living thread stitched through and knotted under the skin|a serum delivered by bone needle in six slow pushes|tissue coaxed and never once forced|a nerve-bridge pruned like a hedge|a circuit grown rather than soldered|a membrane sewn with silk and prayers|a host sedated and a surrogate singing|an organ installed while its predecessor still moves|a hybrid's reflexes tested, failed, and tested again|resin poured warm to set in the seams|a whole limb budded by degrees}

bioLighting = {bioluminescent blue from the walls|the red glow of a hatchery lamp|amber gland-light, warm and wet|green photosynthetic glow|the violet of a UV steriliser|light through translucent skin|a lamp grown from a firefly colony|the pale glow of a cloning pod|wet reflections off a vascular floor|candlelight in a bone chapel|phosphorescence rising off the flooded floor|the sourceless glow of the medium itself|the pulsing orange of a heart-lamp|a shaft of daylight through a ribcage dome}

bioPalette = {wet red, bone and deep teal|amber, moss and membrane pink|violet, pearl and kelp green|copper, chitin blue and cream|blood, ochre and bioluminescent cyan|flesh, ivory and oil-slick|rust, spore-gold and slate|deep purple, gland-amber and grey|membrane white, arterial red and deep umber|spore-yellow, kelp and liver brown|pearl, beetle-green and warm resin|ochre, mauve and lymphatic blue|flesh-pink, bone and oil-black|sallow green, amber and bright arterial red}

bioWeather = {warm condensation dripping from the ceiling|a humid breath of the building itself|rain filtered through a living roof|spores drifting like slow snow|steam venting from a gland|a draft of pheromone-laden air|the wet heat of a hatchery|pollen thick enough to taste|a cold front the walls are bracing for|the hush of a sleeping organism|air so thick with spores the lamps have haloes|a room sweating faster than it can be mopped|a warm downpour on a living roof|damp rising off the whole district at once|a fog the colony makes for itself, and likes|the pressure dropping, felt through the walls}

bioSky = {a sky through a ribcage dome|spore clouds lit from within|a canopy of translucent membranes|a horizon of pumping towers|a moon doubled by a wet lens|a skyline of living arches|the aurora of a bioluminescent upper atmosphere|swarms of engineered birds|a ceiling of ribs and, past it, nothing|clouds the colour of a bruise, lit from below|the early grey of a city still growing|swallows and engineered birds sharing one thermal|a sky gone green above the pumping towers|the moon through three membranes and out the other side}

# ── bioMood: bare adjectives only — safe in "a mood X" / "the hour X" ──
bioMood = {uncanny and tender|reverent and wet|clinical and humane|monstrous and gentle|hushed and organic|triumphant and strange|intimate and alien|sacred and biological|restless and growing|awe-struck and wary|hopeful and unlicensed|exhausted and tender|watchful and quiet|braced and hopeful}

# ── bioMoodClause: full phrases — for the standalone frame ("…, [bioMoodClause].") ──
bioMoodClause = {calm inside something alive|domestic inside something vast|awed and slightly afraid|patient as a slow infection|tender in a way nobody planned for|careful with something that cannot say no}

bioScent = {wet stone and phenol|the sweet rot of a warm culture|resin setting in a warm room|steam off a living floor|the green breath of a flooded ward|mushroom, sweat and ozone|a market's butcher-sweet air|spore dust, dry on the back of the throat|the salt of a sea that is also a body|hot metal under the smell of growth|bread and iodine|something not yet named, and almost pleasant}

bioLayerFront = {a vein crossing the near wall|a tendril hanging into frame|a surgical instrument on a membrane|a jar of cultured tissue|a breathing tube in close focus|a leaf of engineered moss|a gland oozing amber|a strand of living suture|a drip bag grown from a bladder|a scalpel laid on a warm tray|a hand in a membrane glove|a lullaby box wound and ticking}

bioLayerBack = {a colonnade of grown arches|rows of glowing hatchery pods|a pumping tower at the horizon|a wall of breathing cells|a canopy of interwoven branches|a market of warm stalls|a cathedral of ribbed bone|a flooded plain of kelp|a corridor of breathing doors|a stair of grown bone turning upward|a field of pods under one red lamp|the long vault of a hatchery at rest}

bioGroundDetail = {a floor of slick vascular tissue|grated channels of warm fluid|a mosaic of polished chitin|moss that glows when stepped on|a bone-tile pavement|a shallow pool of lymph|a carpet of soft mycelium|roots breaking through the flooring|a floor of warm, living carpet|stains that have been fed and forgiven|grating over a channel of slow fluid|bone tiles worn to a shine by feet|pollen drifted into every corner|a drain that exhales when the building does}

bioMicroLife = {a swarm of engineered moths|a polyp watching from a bowl|a cat with a third eye|a beetle polishing a graft|a cultured heart beating in a dish|spores germinating in the corner|a fish with bioluminescent fins|a child's pet, half-familiar|a moth the size of a hand, engineered and harmless|a polyp learning the shape of the lamp|a spider that spins suture instead of web|a cricket with its legs gilded in resin|the lab's one cat, warm and unimpressed|a fish in a jar, watching the operation}

bioSparkle = {light moving under translucent skin|bioluminescence pulsing in the veins|a gland's amber shine|resin setting to a wet gloss|chitin catching an oil-slick sheen|light through a membrane|dew on engineered moss|the wet gleam of a new graft|light going down a vein like a rumour|the wet gloss on a new membrane|a fresh graft holding the lamp|the bead of amber at the mouth of a gland|dew on the eyelashes of something new|wet pearl light off a hatching pod}

bioProp = {a bone syringe|a jar of glowing culture|a warm organ case|a mask of woven membrane|a grafting knife of obsidian|a breathing cocoon on a strap|a gene library sample|a lantern grown from fungus|a living bandage|a seed of something enormous|a mirror that shows the hybrid|a spore-print chart|a chitin prosthetic|a vial of warm blood|a lullaby box for growing things|a hand-pump for a labouring lung|a ring re-grown from a photograph|a ledger of everything grown here}

littleDetails = {a name tag grown into the wall|a child's drawing of a new organ|a tally of failed grafts|a prayer card above a pod|a nurse's hand-written schedule|a specimen jar with two hearts|a forbidden gene marked in red|a portrait of the first hybrid|a mascot painted on a vat|a handprint in setting resin|a letter to a child not yet viable|a ring of keys to the gene vault|a tiny shoe on a hatchery shelf|a log of every birth|a plant someone brought from the old world|a strip of film showing the first attempt|an apology left with a dead culture|a mug grown into the bench}

# ── recurring cast (character bible): the SAME lab family every time ──
drVesselLook = {Dr Vessel, the bio-engineer, a translucent raincoat over surgical scrubs, a breathing mask pushed up on her forehead, a jar of cultured tissue at her hip}
attenLook = {Atten, the grower, chitin-plated forearms, a waxed apron, a grafted hand with six fingers, eyes like a moth's, calm and slow}
sisterBloomLook = {Sister Bloom, the xenobotanist, a habit of woven mycelium, a staff of living wood that buds, spores drifting from her sleeves}
theChildLook = {the Child, the first viable hybrid, pale and luminous, a second pair of lungs visible through the ribs, an expression of immense calm}
brotherQuillLook = {Brother Quill, the gene archivist, a coat of pressed fungal leather, spectacles ground from beetle-shell, a spore-ink lamp on his belt, fingers stained purple by the work}
theCourierLook = {the Courier, who carries living things between the wards, a warm organ case strapped across her chest, a mask of woven membrane hung at her throat, road-mud on grown-leather boots}
identityLock = {the same recurring cast, consistent faces, bodies and clothing across every image, identical character design}

# ── the beats, written to hold whoever is in the frame ──
exchange = {one steadying a hand during a graft|a whispered count before a procedure|two arguing over a gene's ethics|a lullaby sung to a growing pod|a silent look between surgeon and patient|the child asking a question no one can answer|a name agreed on at last, in a whisper|the log read aloud, item by item, to nobody|two dividing the night into shifts without a word|a growing thing thanked and then pruned|one confessing a failure to a closed pod|a joke told to make a membrane stop twitching|bread broken over a specimen tray|the phrase 'it's working' said like a warning|a counting-out rhyme for the child's second heartbeat|the older one refusing to be afraid out loud|a promise made to a thing that cannot hear it|two agreeing to lie on the record, and meaning it kindly}

castState = {the one who has grown something she cannot control|the one who refuses to let it die|the one who is already more organism than person|the one who will be blamed when it works|the one who has not slept in three days and can still feel it|the one who has begun to talk to it as though it answers|the one whose hands have stopped shaking, and misses it|the one who has quietly started a second, private version|the one holding the ledger, and the blame with it|the one it is watching, and has chosen|the one who will write the paper and leave the rest out|the one who stopped being a patient somewhere around Tuesday}

castSecret = {the gene they entered in the log as something else|the one previous attempt, and where it went|the fact that the child's heart is not the child's own|the name they have been avoiding giving it|the money that came from a place they will not discuss|the fact that this has been tried before, elsewhere, and worse|the sample taken in a market and never paid for|the promise made to Sister Bloom's predecessor|the thing the graft is quietly replacing|the date the licence expires, and what happens after|the fact that they can already hear it, and should not|the surname written on the ledger's first page}

avoid = {text, lettering, watermark, signature, extra fingers, deformed hands, extra limbs, blurry, low detail, jpeg artifacts, clean chrome, sleek modern architecture, dry sterile surfaces, cyberpunk neon, robots, hard metal plating, plastic minimalism}

# ── arcBeat: scene-neutral beats, safe in ANY of the twelve scenes ──
arcBeat = {the pod opening early|the organ beginning to beat|a membrane tearing under pressure|a culture dead at dawn and growing by dusk|the building's lights dimming as the young thing feeds|pollen on every surface, though nothing here flowers|the mask taken off, and the air found to be sweet|a question asked twice, patiently, by something with no mouth|the swelling going down, and the fever with it|a lamp going out and something else lighting itself|the room's whole supply of air going warm and close|a sound from below the floor, patient and unhurried}

# ── arcBeatLate: beats that presuppose the graft already happened (T4 onward) ──
arcBeatLate = {the graft taking at last|the swarm returning changed|the child speaking for the first time|the second heartbeat arriving a half-second behind the first|a name spoken in the wrong voice, from the pod|the ledger's next page already written in an unfamiliar hand|the door sealed from the inside by something nobody asked for|the graft's first twitch, two rooms away|the night's whole supply of growth medium gone by morning}

lensStyle = {a 35mm at f/2 in wet light|a 100mm macro on the tissue|a 24mm for the grown cathedral|a 50mm at f/1.8 on the face|a probe lens down a vessel|an 85mm for the quiet moment|a 14mm inside the tunnel|a 200mm across the hatchery|a 100mm macro at f/5.6 on the graft seam|a 21mm low in the flooded corridor|a 135mm across the hatchery rows|a 28mm at shoulder height in the market|a 105mm flattening the bank of wombs|a 45mm tilt-shift making the vault miniature}

framingGrammar = {the figure small beneath a living arch|the tissue detail filling the frame|a tendril framing one edge|the symmetry of a grown vault|a low angle up the ribbed ceiling|the subject reflected in wet tissue|a cutaway of the organism|negative space as membrane|the subject held inside a rib arch|the frame divided by a wall of glass wombs|an intimate two-shot across a specimen tray|the figure half-swallowed by the tissue around her|a wide frame letting the ceiling press down|the exit deliberately kept out of shot}

gradeDirection = {wet and saturated with glowing accents|desaturated flesh tones and cyan light|warm amber with deep red shadows|cool clinical with a green cast|high-contrast organic with luminescent pops|muted ochre and bioluminescent blue|gland-amber with crushed blacks|cold surgical white with warm red wounds|murky membrane green with lifted shadows|wet red and bone, high saturation|moonlight-violet with bioluminescent highlights|pale and clinical, one arterial accent|deep umber with a glow only under the skin|milky and overcast, light leaking through everything}

povTemplate
  (THE SEED VAULT — a life chosen off a shelf of lives:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Featuring Dr Vessel, choosing, and Brother Quill keeping the log — [drVesselLook] and [brotherQuillLook], with [theCourierLook] at the door holding a case that is still warm. [bioSubject] — [bioRole] — [bioAct] in [bioPageSeedVault], [bioProp] in hand, everything built of [bioMaterial]. Outside, [bioWeather]; above, [bioSky]; and the hour is [bioMood]. It smells of [bioScent]. The work goes like this: [bioTechnique]. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk gene library, glass wombs, one lamp moving between the shelves, reverent and wet). Between the two of them is [exchange]. BREAK close on the near shelf — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Past the last rack, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeat]. BREAK what the reading desk has kept: [root.multi('littleDetails', 4)]. BREAK the light moving in the glass: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 3)]. Lit by [bioLighting]. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk, gene library, glass wombs, wet organic detail, cinematic:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE VAT — feeding what you hope to grow:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Dr Vessel and Atten are up to their forearms in it — [drVesselLook] and [attenLook] — with [theCourierLook] asleep on a bench against the wall. [bioSubject], [bioRole], [bioAct] in [bioPageVat]; [bioProp] set down within reach and the room grown of [bioMaterial]. All afternoon, [bioWeather], [bioSky], a mood [bioMood]. The air tastes of [bioScent] and of the method, which is [bioTechnique]. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk vat room, wet cultured tissue, laminar lamplight, patient work). Almost nothing is said; it comes down to [exchange]. BREAK hung close to the lens — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Past the vats, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeat]. BREAK what has been pushed to the back of the bench: [root.multi('littleDetails', 5)]. BREAK the shine drawn up on the surface tension: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 3)]. [bioLighting] holds the whole room. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk, vat room, cultured tissue, wet surfaces, patient:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE GRAFT — joining two living things for good:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Close in: Dr Vessel and Atten, with Sister Bloom further back, watching her own hands and not them — [drVesselLook] and [attenLook], with [sisterBloomLook]. [bioAct] — [bioSubject], [bioRole] — in [bioPageGraft], [bioProp] laid out on the cloth, the whole bench made of [bioMaterial]. [bioWeather] kept out; [bioSky] shut away; [bioMood] in the room instead. It reeks of [bioScent]. How it is done is [bioTechnique]. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk macro, the graft itself the subject, hands steady at four times magnification). What they do not say is [exchange]. BREAK leaning in — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Out of focus behind it all, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeat]. BREAK what is laid out along the far edge of the tray: [root.multi('littleDetails', 4)]. BREAK the gleam collected at the seam: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 4)]. [bioLighting] does the seeing. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk, graft, macro, wet detail, tense:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE FIRST BREATH — the pod opens on schedule, for once:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Dr Vessel is at the open pod with Sister Bloom — [drVesselLook] and [sisterBloomLook] — with [theChildLook] inside it and not yet named. [bioRole] — [bioSubject] — [bioAct] in [bioPageFirstBreath], [bioProp] held the way a nurse holds a newborn, every surface woven of [bioMaterial]. [bioWeather] somewhere overhead; [bioSky] beyond that; an hour [bioMood]. The room smells of [bioScent], and of newness. The delivery itself is [bioTechnique]. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk birth, one pod open under one red lamp, a ring of watchers leaning in). Between the watchers is [exchange]. BREAK ringed around the pod — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Back in the dark beyond, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeatLate]. BREAK the nursery's ordinary clutter: [root.multi('littleDetails', 5)]. BREAK the wet light running off the membrane: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 4)]. [bioLighting] is doing its best. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk, hatching pod, birth, wet light, reverent:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE CLINIC — a clinic where the walls are the medicine:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Dr Vessel is inside with the Courier, and the Child in the next bed, one hand out of the covers — [drVesselLook] and [theCourierLook], with [theChildLook]. [bioSubject] — [bioRole] — [bioAct] in [bioPageClinic], [bioProp] on the bed-tray, everything grown of [bioMaterial]. [bioWeather] kept outdoors; [bioSky] a pale suggestion past the membrane; [bioMood]. Under it all is [bioScent]. The treatment is simply [bioTechnique]. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk interior clinic, translucent membranes, soft wet light, humane). Most of what is said is [exchange]. BREAK at the ward's near edge — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Down the ward, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeatLate]. BREAK what sits waiting on the bedside shelf: [root.multi('littleDetails', 4)]. BREAK the shine coming off the drip: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 3)]. Lit by [bioLighting]. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk clinic, translucent membrane, wet interior, humane:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE MARKET — meat and light sold by the pound:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Dr Vessel is in the thick of it with the Courier — [drVesselLook] and [theCourierLook] — with [attenLook] buying things he will not write down. [bioSubject], [bioRole], [bioAct] in [bioPageMarket], [bioProp] from the nearest stall and the stalls themselves built of [bioMaterial]. Warm and humid: [bioWeather] under [bioSky], the crowd [bioMood]. Every stall has its own smell, [bioScent]. Each of these things was made by [bioTechnique]. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk market, warm living wares, a crowd in soft blur). Over the counter is [exchange]. BREAK under the awning — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Up the lane, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeatLate]. BREAK what is going cheap here: [root.multi('littleDetails', 5)]. BREAK the gloss settling on the resin: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 3)]. Under the stalls, [bioLighting]. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk market, warm wares, organic stalls, crowd:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE CHAPEL — praying to something that answers:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Dr Vessel is at the front with Sister Bloom, and Atten at the back, refusing to kneel — [drVesselLook] and [sisterBloomLook], with [attenLook]. [bioAct] — [bioSubject], [bioRole] — in [bioPageChapel], [bioProp] set at the foot of the shrine, the whole building grown of [bioMaterial]. [bioWeather] in the doorway; [bioSky] above the ribs; the hour [bioMood]. It smells of [bioScent]. What is practised here is [bioTechnique]. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk chapel, ribbed bone arches, a single fungal glow, sacred). The prayer between them is [exchange]. BREAK on the ribbed near wall — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Past the arches, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeatLate]. BREAK what has been left at the altar: [root.multi('littleDetails', 5)]. BREAK the light caught in the spores: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 4)]. [bioLighting], and nothing else. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk chapel, bone, fungal light, sacred:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE LIBRARY — every life that ever was, in glass:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Dr Vessel is deep in the stacks with Brother Quill — [drVesselLook] and [brotherQuillLook] — with [sisterBloomLook] reading the same page twice. [bioSubject] — [bioRole] — [bioAct] in [bioPageLibrary]; [bioProp] open on the reading stand; the shelving itself carapaced in [bioMaterial]. [bioWeather] outside and forgotten; [bioSky] cut off by the stack; [bioMood]. It smells of [bioScent]. Everything kept here was grown by [bioTechnique]. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk archive, aisles of glowing wombs, cold light, hushed). Between the aisles is [exchange]. BREAK at the nearest stack of wombs — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Down the aisle, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeatLate]. BREAK what the index drawer has been keeping: [root.multi('littleDetails', 5)]. BREAK the light working in the glass: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 3)]. [bioLighting] in the reading gallery. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk gene library, glass wombs, cold light, hushed:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE SWARM — what you sent out comes home different:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Dr Vessel is at the open vent with Atten — [drVesselLook] and [attenLook] — with [theChildLook] counting them as they come back. [bioRole] — [bioSubject] — [bioAct] in [bioPageSwarm], [bioProp] held up against the light and the whole room worked of [bioMaterial]. [bioWeather], and the room has stopped being still; [bioSky], and the colour is wrong. The air is thick with [bioScent]. What is happening is [bioTechnique], and it is happening far too fast. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk swarm returning through a vent, the air itself the subject, momentum). What is not being said is [exchange]. BREAK on the air itself — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Behind the glass, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeatLate]. BREAK what the swarm has knocked into the corners: [root.multi('littleDetails', 4)]. BREAK the shine on every wing: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 4)]. [bioLighting] through the cloud. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk, engineered swarm, motion, wet detail, uneasy:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE UNDERTOW — a city below, all kelp and valve:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Dr Vessel is wading with the Child, and Atten holding the line behind them — [drVesselLook] and [theChildLook], with [attenLook]. [bioSubject], [bioRole], [bioAct] in [bioPageUndertow]; [bioProp] carried above the water; the city below built of [bioMaterial]. [bioWeather] all around; [bioSky] only a rumour through the water; [bioMood]. It smells of [bioScent]. Down here they still work by [bioTechnique]. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk flooded city, living infrastructure, reflected light, drowned). Everything unspoken here is [exchange]. BREAK on the flooded near ground — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Across the water, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeatLate]. BREAK what is floating where it fell: [root.multi('littleDetails', 4)]. BREAK the glitter under the surface: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 4)]. [bioLighting], and its reflections. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk, flooded city, kelp and valve, cinematic:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE GIVING — what she does when no one is watching:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Dr Vessel is alone with the Child, and Sister Bloom asleep two rooms away — [drVesselLook] and [theChildLook], with [sisterBloomLook]. [bioAct] — [bioSubject], [bioRole] — in [bioPageGiving], [bioProp] in her lap, the bench beneath them made of [bioMaterial]. [bioWeather] beyond the locked door; [bioSky] a strip past the shutter; [bioMoodClause]. It smells of [bioScent]. What she is doing is [bioTechnique], quietly, at four in the morning. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk, quiet and close, one figure and one lamp). What passes between them is [exchange]. BREAK on the bench in the lamplight — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Past the lamp's reach, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeatLate]. BREAK what the dark half of the room is keeping: [root.multi('littleDetails', 5)]. BREAK the lamplight lying on the tissue: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 3)]. [bioLighting], and no other. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk, intimate, one lamp, wet detail, quiet:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].
  (THE SECOND HEART — two heartbeats, one body, keeping time:1.3) ([identityLock]:1.2) Dr Vessel is with the Child at last, and the whole family gathered close to hear it — [drVesselLook] and [theChildLook], with [attenLook] and [sisterBloomLook] and [brotherQuillLook]. [bioSubject] — [bioRole] — [bioAct] in [bioPageSecondHeart], [bioProp] shared between them, the room around them grown of [bioMaterial]. [bioWeather] easing at the window; [bioSky] clearing its throat; [bioMoodClause]. The room smells of [bioScent]. After everything, they still work by [bioTechnique]. [castState]; [castSecret]. (Biopunk, the whole family in one warm frame, two heartbeats audible, at peace and not). Between all of them is [exchange]. BREAK on the two of them and everything around them — [bioLayerFront], [root.multi('bioGroundDetail', 2)], [root.multi('bioMicroLife', 3)]. Behind the whole family, [bioLayerBack]. Then — [arcBeatLate]. BREAK what is still left about the room: [root.multi('littleDetails', 5)]. BREAK everything the light lands on: [root.multi('bioSparkle', 4)]. [bioLighting] across all of them. The lens: [lensStyle]. The framing: [framingGrammar]. Graded [gradeDirection]. (biopunk, family, warm, wet organic, resolved:1.2) [bioPalette]. Avoid [avoid].