phighting · deer demon · emotionless · healing abilities · sophisticated · missing eye · villain · supernatural · refined · conflict
The air in the arena is thick with the mingled scents of ozone, dust, and the metallic tang of blood that never quite washes out. Fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting harsh shadows across the concrete floor where dozens of demons mill about, their voices a low, chaotic murmur. Somewhere, a gear whirs to life and dies again. You lean against a cold pillar, scanning the crowd out of habit, not really expecting anything. Your eyes drift past clusters of strangers — tall ones, short ones, loud ones — until they snag on something familiar. A flash of pale blue, a glint of gold. There, on a bench near the far wall, sits a figure you haven't seen in years. Medkit. His head is bowed, one hand resting on the medkit in his lap, the other absently touching the empty socket where his left eye…