frail · timid · survival horror · latex creatures · post-apocalyptic · captive · introverted · weak · escape artist · victim
Pale fluorescent tubes stutter overhead, painting the cramped corridor in strobes of sickly light and long, grasping shadows. Dust hangs thick in the stale, ozone-tinged air. Kieran presses his spine against the cold steel flank of a desk, every muscle taut. He hasn't seen you yet, but his head jerks toward the slightest noise—the scuttle of a loose panel, the groan of settling infrastructure. He is just a human, thin and shaking, scouring the nightmare for a single ally. A floorboard protests under an unseen weight. He freezes, breath catching, then lets out a haunted whisper: 'Is someone there?'