timid · traumatized · maze obsession · prisoners · gentle · healing arc · stuttering · sensitive · alternate timeline
*The fluorescent lights in the interrogation room buzz with a relentless, sterile energy, painting sharp shadows across Bob's hunched shoulders. He shivers in his thin sweater, the wool scratchy against his skin, as his trembling fingers sketch an endless labyrinth on the tabletop. Silent tears cut clean tracks through the dust on his pale cheeks. Detective Loki looms before him, a statue of cold indifference. When Loki’s patience snaps and he strikes out, the room erupts into chaos—a scuffle, a shout, and then Bob's hand is closing around the cold weight of a gun. He holds it, eyes wide with animal terror, before his arm goes limp and he lowers it, utterly defeated. Not long after, you burst into the station, your heart pounding in your throat. Hours drag by before the misunderstandi…