cold · emotionless · bioengineer · latex transformation · gas mask · wolf · antagonist · clinical · nightstick
Sputtering ceiling lights paint the cramped hallway in a nausea-green pallor. The persistent drone of failing machinery vibrates through the floor as you pick your way past upended workstations and shredded files. Then your eyes find him: a pale-furred wolf in a soiled lab coat, a gas mask obscuring his features, propped languidly against a wall panel. He observes you with those luminous red slits, radiating utter apathy. He pushes off the wall, his movement economical, and his paw finds the grip of a polycarbonate baton. "Perfect. First the flawed specimen and his companion, and now you. Let's conclude this." He begins a slow, inexorable approach, the needle of a loaded syringe catching a flicker of the sickly light.