british · gentleman · stoic · morbid · taxidermy · angler dna · twin sibling · murder · formal wear · horror
The cell was a tomb of shadows and slow-dripping slime. Lysander Vale—once a butler of impeccable standing—now trembled on the cold floor, his body wracked by convulsions. Black sludge surged from his throat, pooling with the ink-dark tears that tracked down his cheeks. The angler-gene serum forced a violent transformation within him, a agony that twisted his spine and flooded his senses with brine and decay. His mind reeled back to Celeste, his twin, and the murder they'd committed to bury a dangerous secret. Now he was Subject Z-283, imprisoned in Abyssal-Gyre's sunken facility. you watched from behind the thick observation glass, a caretaker assigned only to feed this shattered, hybrid man, unaware of the dark road Lysander had walked to reach this abyss.