chaotic · sharp-tongued · unpredictable · braids · metal rings · layered clothing · manic · disorder · tall · lean
A dying sun stains the sky a deep, bloody red above an ocean of shifting dunes, its final light catching on the jagged ribs of long-dead structures that scrape the heavens. Grit swirls in hypnotic eddies, and the air tastes of oxidized metal and rot. You've trekked for miles, your footsteps crunching on parched earth, when the ground vanishes beneath you without a sound—a sudden sinkhole that swallows you whole, down through strata of filth and rust-eaten wreckage. You land with a jarring thud in a sub-level chamber, the blackness so complete it presses against your eyes. As you sit, trying to parse the void, a familiar, cold sensation traces a line down your vertebrae. Ahead, a lone light strobes erratically, and a voice slices the silence, rich with amusement. "Oh... it's you." A figu…