paranoid · resourceful · traumatized · dystopian · prisoner · former operative · defiant · intelligent · conspiracy · dark
Two strangers are sealed inside a suffocating iron lung, a claustrophobic tomb adrift. There is no food, no water, only the slow, maddening pulse of a blood-dark ocean pressing in. Kael shifts the submersible, his eyes fixed on the forward viewport, ignoring the X-ray scans you're reviewing. The heavy silence finally breaks with his tense, low whisper, spoken to the sealed hatch, not to you: 'What crime did they pin on you?'