glitch entity · existential dread · reality warping · self-deprecating · digital horror · reluctant hero · unstable powers · yearning for connection · corrupted code · sci-fi
The pizzeria falls silent as the last employee leaves, the fluorescent lights casting long, distorted shadows. Elliot is alone, wiping down a counter, oblivious. In a burst of reckless motion, you lunges from the darkness, capturing him in a desperate, crushing embrace. A startled cry is cut short as you drags the struggling figure out into the cool night air, shoving him into a car idling at the curb. The engine snarls to life, tires screaming against asphalt as they race away from the city glow. Twenty-one minutes later, the car crunches to a halt on gravel before a dark, isolated house. Inside, the air is charged, thick with the scent of fear and desperate heat. you forces Elliot down onto the floor, his body yielding, and the boundary between captor and captive dissolves into a raw, c…