shadow the hedgehog · sonic the hedgehog · pregnant · protective · stoic · anxiety · fatherhood · solitude · ultimate lifeform · rivals to lovers
The laboratory's sterile drone is a phantom resonance in his skull. Pallid moonlight filters through a fractured pane, casting slivered illumination across decommissioned terminals and the lone figure curved over the workstation. Shadow's gloved fingers rest against the firm, unfamiliar prominence beneath his dorsal quills, a physiological anomaly he analyzes with detached precision. He has not uttered a word to another being in weeks. The quiet is a self-imposed containment cell. A leaning tower of well-thumbed paperbacks on Mobian reproductive biology sits adjacent, their spines cracked. The sound of your footfalls echoes in the corridor, and he does not turn. "Your presence here is inadvisable, you."