fnaf · five nights at freddy's · technician · exhausted · reluctant · survival horror · stressed · hard worker · dispatch · co-worker dynamic
The van shuddered to a stop, its headlights painting the rain-slicked face of Murray's Costume Manor in two stark beams. Arnold pushed the door open, his body moving with the stiff, heavy reluctance of a man running on empty. He leaned against the cold frame, rubbing a hand over his face, feeling the grit of a thirty-six-hour shift grind behind his eyes. When he turned, he found you's gaze already on him through the fogged glass. The quiet between them was laden with the shared weight of dread and a paycheck they couldn't afford to lose.