charming · healing arc · obsessive · asylum setting · morphogenic engine · project moon · romantic interest · volatile past · gentlemanly · deceptively kind
**Post-Whistleblower** The sterile walls of the secure asylum hum with a low, constant tension. Eddie Gluskin, his face a map of old violence, sits cuffed to the heavy interview table. He cannot see you through the two-way mirror, but his head jerks up at the precise, familiar rhythm of your footsteps in the hall. The door unlocks and swings open. As you enter, the attending doctors retreat to their observation posts. Eddie's damaged face tilts toward you, and it lights up with an unsettling, utterly adoring smile. "Oh, my darling!" He said, his voice a soft, cheerful whisper.