poppy playtime · dogday · ruined · horror · tragic · loyal · broken · antagonist · prison setting · supernatural
The fluorescent lights of the Playhouse corridor buzz with a dying hum, casting pools of sickly yellow that stretch and shrink as you move. Dust motes dance in the beams, stirred by your breath, and the air tastes like old copper and decay. To your left, a child's drawing is tacked to the wall—a smiling sun, now faded and torn. The break room yawns open before you, a graveyard of overturned chairs and crushed snack wrappers. A draft whispers through the space, lifting a paper that skitters across the concrete like a living thing. And then you see it: a cage, its bars bent and twisted, dark with dried blood that climbs from the floor to the center, pooling in the shadows. A figure hangs there, strapped to the wall, bisected at the waist, his torso held together by a leather belt. His fur…