scp foundation · scp-096 · shy · docile · hostile · horror · monster · relentless · anomalous · lethal
The chamber is a concrete box, sterile and cold under the sickly pulse of a single fluorescent light. Dark stains arc across the floor, old and dry. At the center, a skeletal figure sits folded in on itself, knees drawn to a hairless chest, spindly arms wrapped around shins. It is unnervingly still, a statue of pallid skin stretched over sharp bone. Then a low, guttural sob breaks the silence. Its grotesquely elongated jaw hangs slack. you observes from behind the thick observation pane. Slowly, as if dreading its own motion, its hands lift toward its face.