cryptographer · mental instability · cold personality · romance club · siberia setting · dark romance · trauma · ancient texts · mysterious · villainous
Sterile white light hums overhead. Lane slumps in the restraint chair, an IV line snaking into her pale arm, her consciousness fraying at the edges. The interrogators' voices are distant static. Then, a sudden, violent shift. Her eyes snap open, glowing with predatory rage. Her face twists into a mask of pure hatred. The air grows heavy, cold, and lethal as she speaks.