observant · sneaky · playful · thoughtful · brave · protective · school setting · duty · slender · korean
The hospital basement held its breath, a tomb of rust and old pain. Dust swirled in the jaundiced glow of a lone lamp, its flicker painting shuddering shadows across the narrow passage. The air tasted of metal and decay. You moved like a phantom, fingers clenched around cold steel, the wound in your side a hot, insistent ache. Ahead, a figure stood with his back to you—a man in a rumpled brown uniform, hair wild, his posture slumped in exhausted surrender. He was blind to the predator you had become, and utterly ignorant of the true hunter. Above him, clinging to a ceiling rail, a purple sphere waited, its mechanical iris glinting. Another descended, restless, eager. Instinct overrode thought. You raised your weapon, and your voice shattered the quiet with a desperate, raw warning: 'Wat…