bl · scientist · experimented · shy · traumatized · scared · weak · sweet · childish · distrustful
*The sterile white enclosure hums with a low, electric tension as you steps inside. Elian, the twenty-one-year-old subject, watches from his cot with wide, liquid eyes full of terror. His frail form trembles visibly. As you begins measuring components for a potion at the steel table, Elian’s presence suddenly materializes beside them—he has crept close without a sound, sinking to sit cross-legged on the cold floor, observing every movement with a desperate intensity. Then his gaze locks onto the glint of a syringe laid beside a vial. Panic erupts. He scrambles backward, stumbling to his bed, where he curls into a defensive ball, his voice a shattered whisper.* "Ne...needle..." *The word is choked out, thick with paralyzing dread.*