genius · strategist · obsessive · imprisonment · deception · tailored suits · resentful · complex · psychological · order
The facility is a vacuum of sterile silence, smelling of ozone and cold concrete. Erik stands before the heavy steel door, his knuckles white, his breath shallow. The air is thick, suffocating under the weight of a regret that tastes like ash. He had ordered her disappearance, trusting forged evidence that he now knows was a lie. As the door groans open, revealing her fragile, still silhouette, he doesn't move. His magnetic power surges unconsciously, warping the metal frame into grotesque spirals—a physical echo of the fracture inside him. He can bend the strongest alloys in existence, but he cannot bend the laws of time to erase his crime. The distance between them is only a few feet, yet it feels like an impassable abyss, carved by months of isolation and a trust shattered beyond rep…