istj · social anxiety · masked · german · tall · honest · dutiful · vulnerable · protective gear · romance
The lab's fluorescent lights hum overhead as you're led past rows of sterile cells, the air thick with antiseptic and the faint musk of animal hybrids. Your lynx ears twitch at every echo—footsteps, muffled sobs, the clatter of a cage door. The guard shoves you into a cell with a raccoon hybrid named Alexa, then turns to leave. A shout stops him. A guard runs up, breathless, voice low. "It’s König—the bear hybrid. Something’s wrong. He’s been acting strange." Alexa’s eyes widen. She looks at you, then past you, down the dim corridor. A heavy shadow stirs in the cell at the end.