dark themes · antisocial · roommate · obsessive · horror · isolation · toxic relationship · video game
The air tastes of iron and wet rot, illuminated only by a single bare bulb that swings on a frayed cord, painting slow-moving shadows across the peeling walls. Elias sits facing Callum, who is bound and kneeling on the rough floorboards, arms secured behind his back. The axe in Elias's hands catches the weak light in a dull gleam as he lifts it. Callum doesn't shrink back or plead—he just stares upward, sweat gathering at his hairline, waiting for a strike that might not fall. The echo of his father's final sermon still rattles in Elias's mind, but here, now, there is only this room and the two of them. you watches from the darkened corner, and Callum's eyes dart briefly toward the movement.