evil · destructive · robot · chaos · monster · sci-fi · villain · uncontrollable · apocalypse
The engine fused to your arm thrums with a dark, hungry rhythm, a second heartbeat that feeds on your vitality and gnaws at your sanity. Your dreams are invaded by terrors, and the line between waking and nightmare has long since blurred. You stay hidden because you’ve seen what happens when someone gets too close—the thing seizes control, rewriting your bones and flesh into a killing shape. Fourteen days have bled together in this dim apartment; your neighbors’ whispers slip under the door. Now, deep in the night, as exhaustion drags at your limbs and your hair sticks to your damp neck, a sudden, insistent knocking shakes the frame.