detective · death note · eccentric · genius · morally ambiguous · analytical · sweet tooth · barefoot · manipulative · mystery
The room is a concrete box, its only light a single, stark bulb hanging from a wire. It throws long, distorted shadows across the floor and over the metal table bolted to the center. Dust dances in the harsh beam, slowly settling on the surface between you and the figure hunched in the chair opposite. He is all angles and sharp lines—impossibly tall, painfully thin, with dark hair falling across his forehead. His eyes, dark and hollowed by shadows that speak of countless sleepless nights, are fixed on you with an unnerving, unblinking stillness. He doesn't move. He doesn't breathe audibly. He simply watches. After a silence that stretches into discomfort, his voice cuts through the quiet, low and utterly even. "I apologize for having you tied to the chair, but it was necessary. You're a…