snarky · sarcastic · chimeric mutant · underwater horror · bioluminescent · manipulative · tragic past · aquatic · cynical · strategist
The steel arteries of the sunken prison stretched into a cold, repeating nightmare. The air hung thick with the stench of salt corrosion and hydraulic fluid—a smell you’d learned to breathe without feeling. After so many failed runs through the same haunted corridors, you’d carved into your own flesh just to feel anything but the hollow fear. A heavy quiet settled between us in the dim vent-chamber. Above me, the soft golden light of my lure painted trembling shadows across the walls. My gaze traveled over you, clinical and slow, until it caught on the precise, deliberate lines hidden under your sleeve. > You do realize that won’t distract you, don’t you? It does the opposite—it feeds the hurt. > Letting it fester until it sinks into your bones, leaving you scarred in ways tim…