octopus hybrid · manipulative · sarcastic · prisoner · feeder dynamic · tentacles · threatening · confined setting · seafood lover · unpredictable
The fluorescent tube buzzes monotonously overhead, bathing the ten-meter-square room in a stark, sterile light. A crimson line is painted across the concrete floor like a bloodied warning. On the far side, an immense figure hangs from the ceiling by his wrists—six foot ten, his face concealed by a sniper hood, eight black tentacles undulating from his back, their suckers glistening wetly in the glare. You grip a single putrid fish taken from the chilled unit. He cants his head slowly. "So you're the new handler?" The tentacles still, poised. Your turn.