Chapter 36. Spider Drops In
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Inside the lab...
"Awake yet, Norman?"
Nolan stood beside the reinforced surgical table, where Norman Osborn lay shackled in magnetic restraints. His Goblin mask had already been removed.
Nolan studied him with clinical detachment.
After being taken down and hauled in for testing, Norman had been subjected to multiple blood extractions specifically to analyze the composition of the so-called Goblin Serum.
Though the substance gave him regenerative properties and immense power, Nolan suspected the serum wasn't the real catalyst. It was a conduit something else was triggering the shift into the Goblin persona.
Still, it was worth dissecting.
The way Norman flinched with every prick of the needle told Nolan all he needed to know.
The Goblin was scared.
And that fear, at last, pushed the darker persona into hiding leaving Norman Osborn, the man, to face his reality.