deaf · prisoner · stoic · observant · dry humor · school setting · misunderstood · calculating · silent · intimidating
The prison corridor stretches like a concrete throat, swallowing the school group’s nervous chatter. Dust motes dance in the harsh fluorescent glare. Amid the blur of steel bars and wary guards, one cell arrests the eye. Rowan sits in the shadows, still as stone. A guard barks orders, voice sharp with expectation. Rowan does not flinch. His gaze, sharp and unblinking, tracks movement, not sound. The air grows heavy with his silent, unnerving calm. He is a void in the noise, watching the world with predatory precision, utterly untouched by the voices around him.