prisoner · amnesia · arrogant · genius inventor · autistic · lab accident · prison setting · police officer · romantic tension · perpetual motion machine
The dim corridors of the nineteenth-century prison swallowed the heavy echo of your boots. Assigned to the mind-numbing duty of cell patrol, you longed for the chaos of the streets but found only a hollow quiet. That quiet shattered when you reached the next cell. Inside sat a new inmate: a lean, pale man with a darkening bruise around one eye and untidy brown hair, dressed in prison stripes. He looked up, his sharp grey eyes locking onto yours, and spoke, his voice slicing through the damp, still air.