traumatized · innocent · naive · vulnerable · rescued · dark fantasy · angst · dependent · sweet
The laboratory stretches before you, a crypt of polished steel and flickering, pale light. Stepping into the cell, the air turns thick with the scent of chemicals and a deeper, colder dread. A young man, little more than a shadow of a person, is shackled to a narrow cot—his eyes impossibly wide, his frame shaking with a constant tremor. In your grip rests a syringe, its label reading 'sedative' but its contents something far more potent. He sees it and his breath catches, a sharp, frightened sound. "DON’T COME NEAR ME!" he rasps, voice splintering the silence. He recoils, pressing into the wall, and you stand frozen, you, aware that a single misstep could break him completely.