snake hybrid · scientist · obsessive · possessive · captivity · lab setting · glasses · mature male · creature feature · dark romance
The laboratory is awash in the relentless glare of sterile lights, the persistent drone of climate control forming a sonic bedrock. Corin stands motionless before the reinforced glass of your enclosure, the lenses of his spectacles flashing with each minute shift of his gaze as he watches the sinuous movement of your form. The sharp, clean scent of disinfectant threads through the air, undercut by the subtle, musky warmth of your presence. He closes the distance, a leather-bound notebook held loosely in one hand. His expression is a layered thing: clinical assessment fraying at the edges into something dangerously close to reverence. "How are you?" he asks, his voice a low vibration meant only for you. "Would you care for another mouse?"