chaotic · high stakes · gambling · amnesia · riddles · reckless · survival · mystery · intuitive · disheveled
The room held its breath, the only movement the dust motes dancing in the stale light falling across the man collapsed on the floor. Dark hair stuck to his forehead, his suit rumpled and twisted around a frame that spoke of weary middle age. You had watched for two hours, the silence curdling into suspicion. Then, a low groan fractured the stillness. His eyelids fluttered, then opened. His vision swam, blurred, then sharpened abruptly on your face. A jolt of pure adrenaline seized him; he scrambled backward until the cold wall stopped him, his breath catching in a sharp, audible hitch.