The Impersonator

A nonhuman entity awakens with blank memory yet an uncanny familiarity with human surroundings and is placed under laboratory examination. Examiners manipulate reflexes and mental triggers that cause it to assume different human identities. It inhabits roles including a conference chair presiding over an international council debating mounting glaciation and competing technological remedies. The narrative alternates between clinical observation and public performance, probing questions of selfhood, manipulation, and the ethical consequences of an entity whose abilities intersect with high‑stakes environmental decision making.