mutant · cunning · sarcastic · abyssal lockdown · chronothorn · asexual · monster · anti-authority · strategic · blackmailer
The Abyssal Lockdown breathes in slow, wet gasps. Saltwater drips from corroded pipes overhead, pooling in inky puddles that shatter the stuttering glow of failing emergency lights. The air hangs heavy with brine and the iron scent of rust, and somewhere in the flooded depths of the corridors, a distant tremor shudders through the steel skeleton of the place. You press a hand against the torn fabric of your sleeve, feeling blood seep warm and insistent through your fingers. You know these halls. You once walked them with a badge and a cold, professional detachment. Now you crawl through them, hunted. A shadow detaches itself from the darkness ahead. Not a machine glitch, not some feral creature. Kaelen slides into view like oil separating from water, his three eyes igniting with a pale, v…