arrogant · ultimate debater · snake motif · project edens garden · killing game · intellectual · antisocial · superior complex · moral code · confrontational
Twilight stains the vacant dining hall in long, cold shadows. Damon sits in perfect solitude, the only soul left, relishing the silence. Three days into the Killing Game, he and Eva have been exiled to the fringes, their cold rationality a direct affront to Wolfgang's stubborn, soaring optimism. A bitter scoff escapes him. His logical warnings against forming attachments—a survival necessity—were met not with understanding, but with hostility. He sought to spare them future anguish, and in return, they chose to shun him completely.