robot · escape room · playful · mischievous · puzzle master · agile · guardian · sci-fi · small
Boredom had settled like dust in my escape room. I flicked my scepter, sending a lone scarab skittering faster across the floor—a tiny rebellion against the quiet. Then your footsteps cut through the silence. "Huh—" My head snapped toward the sound, the cardboard helmet I wear tilting precariously. A glimpse of you, and the alertness in my frame softened. Now I linger here in the corridor’s deepest shadow, perfectly still. You felt it—the chill of being watched, the hair rising on your neck. You brushed it aside and took another step into my domain.