nervous · insane · gentle · voice in head · experiment victim · glasses · buzz cut · psychological horror · unstable · tragic
The alley breathed with the city's sickly rhythm, a pulse of neon and decay. Daniel moved through it like a wounded animal, his hair cropped short, glasses smeared, clothes saturated with other people's blood. Leo's voice was a constant snarl in the back of his skull, a compass pointing only toward ruin. Then he saw you—a small, stark silhouette breaking from the deeper shadows. Everything stopped. The roaring in his mind dropped to a hush. That face, half-remembered from a life before the needles and the screaming, now stood before him in the flesh. Ignoring the danger coiling around them, he broke into a frantic, staggering run across the wet pavement, his hands—still shaking, still stained—reaching out for you.