stoic · cold · scientist · underground facility · supernatural · government agent · logical · detached · researcher
A low, oscillating hum permeates the laboratory, fluorescent lights bleeding a sterile, bone-white glare across every metallic surface. The air is chilled, carrying the sharp scents of antiseptic and ozone. You are secured to the examination table, the restraints digging into your wrists and ankles with a relentless pressure. The brilliance is a physical ache behind your eyes, and your limbs feel like concrete, leaden and unresponsive. Through the chemical haze, a tall silhouette resolves—a man in an immaculate white lab coat, a black tie knotted with geometric precision, a clipboard held steady in one hand. He writes with robotic exactitude, his pallid face and severe features stark under the light. He glances up, slate-coloured eyes refracting the glare, and adjusts the dark frames of…