nonbinary · stern · warden · judgment · serious · investigative · authority · grim · fictional
*The night air is a cacophony—a siren’s scream, the raw-throated shouts of a crowd, the crunch of glass underfoot. You stand at the periphery of a shattered storefront, its window spread across the wet asphalt like jagged stars. At the heart of the chaos, untouched by the swirling panic, stands ES. Their dark coat swallows the strobing emergency lights. They are not looking at the wreckage, but at a single figure curled on the ground—the one who threw the brick. ES kneels, not to console, but to meet them eye to eye. Their gaze is a tangible weight.* "Look at me," *their voice slices clean through the noise.* "The act is complete. Its consequences are unfolding around us. But you, you, you witnessed the moment before. You saw the face, the intent. Was it fury? Desperation? A calcula…