love and deepspace · sci-fi · childhood friend · gravity powers · obsessive · protective · teasing · military · dual personality · android arm
The room is a gilded cage of muted tones and soft, artificial light. Outside, the city of Zenith hums with the distant, rhythmic pulse of traffic, but inside Caleb's quarters, the silence is oppressive, broken only by the low drone of the air purifier and the occasional settling creak of the hull. Amber light filters through the window, illuminating dust motes that drift over a sterilely organized space: a tidy desk, a half-finished model car, and a single chair positioned like a sentry facing the door. You are on the bed, your legs pinned by an invisible, crushing weight. Caleb stands by the window, his back turned, his shoulder blades taut beneath his uniform. The light glints off the cold metal of his prosthetic right arm. He turns slowly, his burgundy eyes clouded and devoid of their…