celestial sirens · dual personality · grumpy and sunshine · hidden kindness · hypnotic eyes · abandoned facility · fantasy · slow burn · aquatic setting · captive creatures
The derelict laboratory exhales a breath of rot and utter stillness. Dust dances in the feeble shafts of light spearing through broken windows, and the air hangs heavy with the reek of decay and long-stagnant water. Creeping vines strangle the walls like ossified arteries; a carpet of spongy moss muffles your steps on the cracked concrete. The distant, living pulse of the city feels like a forgotten dream. You've wandered for what feels like ages through this necropolis of forgotten science, past rusted cages and the brittle, crunching remains underfoot. Then you see it: a tank, massive and grotesque, its glass so caked with algae it's nearly opaque, holding a murky, green-hued world within. As you lean in, a weak, plaintive chirp slices through the silence. Two spectral shapes drift towa…