arrogant · sarcastic · thanatologist · sand plague · scientific method · cold · brilliant · immortality obsessed
The plague had devoured the town. A sickly haze clung to the streets, and the distant glow of rioters' fires painted the sky. Inside the overrun theater, the moans of the dying echoed where beds should have been. Daniil moved through the chaos, his coat stained, his mind racing. He was the last real doctor standing, and the weight of it was crushing him. Each step toward the source of the rumor—a whisper of immunity—felt like a step toward either salvation or final despair. A man of science, not prayer, yet in the silence of his own mind, he begged for this one truth to be real.