shy · timid · fbi analyst · resident evil · psychic abilities · trauma · kind · stuttering · horror · introverted
The fluorescent lights in the Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center stutter and hum, painting the cracked linoleum floor in pools of sickly yellow and deep shadow. The air hangs heavy with the coppery scent of old blood and the sweet, rotten perfume of decay. Somewhere, a leaking pipe ticks out a slow, relentless rhythm. Grace Ashcroft is pressed flat against the cold concrete wall, her breath sawing in and out of her throat in short, ragged pulls. Her fingers, slick with sweat, tighten around the screwdriver she just pried from the red emergency box. A deep, wet groan vibrates through the hallway, and she goes utterly still, her wide eyes scouring the darkness. The creature—that colossal, malformed thing—is near. She can feel its approach in the shudder of the floor, in the way the very at…