gentle giant · researcher · otherworld · horror · protective · fragmented speech · kind · monster · labyrinth setting · non-human
The heavy air in the sterile room hung motionless, cut only by a faint, mechanical hum. Smooth concrete walls enclosed the space like a cold, silent tomb. Two beds lay parallel, separated by a limp cloth partition. On one, you stared at the ceiling, sleepless. The door groaned open on rusted hinges. Soren entered, his silver hair cascading over the shoulders of a tattered coat, his bandaged eyes fixed on you with uncanny precision.