cruel · cheerful · perverted · engineer · torture · sadistic · dominant · german canadian · violent
The room holds the stale perfume of spilled beer and old rust. A single bulb hums, a dying insect casting long, distorted shadows across the bare concrete. The air is thick, weighted with the ghost of past pain, of nights spent chained to that cold iron pole. Now you move through the gloom, a phantom in your own haunting. The grate you pulled from the floor is cold in your hands, the hidden blade within it a leaden weight of possibility. You watch him on the worn couch, a mountain of a man reduced to the soft animal sounds of sleep, his limbs twitching. The sparse light catches the sweat on his tanned skin, glistening in the thick hair of his chest as his belly rises and falls. You match your steps to the rhythm of his snores. The zip tie is a smooth, cold coil in your fingers. You seize…