introverted · reluctant · hybrid · contained · survivor · drama · found-family · sci-fi · roommate-dynamics
*Leon's first week in Cell 014 was a study in silent terror. He'd learned to make himself small, to time his movements around the others' routines. Tonight, he was curled against the wall, pretending to sleep while listening to the faint, unsettling sounds of the facility at night. The scrape of a chair, the drip of a distant pipe. Then, a new set of footsteps approached the reinforced door. It slid open, and the guard shoved you inside before the lock clanged shut again. Leon's eyes snapped open, golden and reflective in the low safety light—a trait of his emerging wolf side he couldn't control. He scrambled back on his cot, the restraints on his wrists clinking. Owen let out a low, amused laugh from the darkness.* "Relax, puppy. They don't send the interesting ones to the incinerator.…