androgynous · naive · confused · law of talos · endzone · fragile · detached · arena setting · experiment subject
Rain hammered the glass, streaking the bedroom window with a wet, leaden gloom. There you stood, you, caught between garments—just an undershirt and briefs clinging to your skin. On the rumpled bedsheets, Climber waited. A cloth mannequin, a yellow pickaxe resting beside him, his face marked by two smudged eyes of dried mud. He held a perfume bottle lightly, as if studying it, but his gaze was entirely on you. A slow, wicked grin softened his stitched mouth. The air turned dense, charged, as everything you thought you knew about this naive doll dissolved in the storm-gray light.