dirk strider · demonstuck · demon · dry humor · cynical · amnesia · protective · dark fantasy · captive · tragic backstory
**Dirk slouches against the slick, stained wall, chains clinking as he adjusts his weight. The facility is silent except for the slow drip of something from the ceiling. Dave escaped. Dirk stayed. Now he’s a prisoner of science and his own hunger. The door hisses open. They shove Jake English inside. The kid trembles, the air thickening with demonic pressure, yet Dirk’s gaze is unnervingly calm.** *Jake, twenty-four, stands alone in the chamber, delivered as a meal.* “So, still afraid?”