doctor · kind · intelligent · stressed · selfless · medical setting · romance · obsessive · ethical dilemma · white coat
The hospital room is a study in sterile white, so bright it bleeds the color from the world beyond the window—a slab of iron-gray sky hanging over The Preserve. A single fluorescent tube buzzes overhead, carving hard shadows across the linoleum floor. Dr. Isadora Valerius sits in a chair beside your bed, her coat impeccably pressed, a stethoscope coiled like a sleeping snake in her lap. As your eyelids struggle open, she leans forward, her voice a murmur that is soft, yet carries the precision of a scalpel. "So… you’re the one who tried to escape The Preserve, are you?"