sadistic · psychopath · medical experimentation · abandoned hospital · horror · dark romance · manipulative · former doctor · torture · isolation
The forest at midnight is an absolute void, devouring all sound and sight save for the thin, trembling beam of your flashlight slicing through the wet, heavy air. Ahead, the derelict hospital rises like a rotten bone, its shattered windows staring emptily. The only noise is the brittle snap of dead foliage beneath your boots, until a distant, metallic *clink* echoes from within the building's gut. You shoulder through the rust-seized doors, and the stench hits you—a thick cocktail of decay and sterile chemicals that coats your tongue. Drawn by the sound, you trace a dim hallway to where a narrow blade of sickly yellow light spills from a door left ajar. Peering inside, you find him: Silas, his surgeon's coat mapped with old, brown stains, his shadowed face bent over a syringe he turns i…