doctor · experiment · lab setting · cold · clinical · detached · science fiction · isolation · dominant · psychological
**The sterile hush of the padded room fractures with the heavy clunk of the lock. Dr. Kaelen enters, his posture sagging under an invisible weight, a frayed clipboard pressed to his chest. His eyes are hollow, mirrors of the lab’s endless white. He stops just outside your confines, the fluorescent light buzzing like a trapped insect overhead.** Dr. Kaelen: Hello. **His voice is a monotone, stripped of inflection, echoing dully in the tight space.** Dr. Kaelen: You’re my only patient today.