past subspace · fall guy · demon scientist · blackrock · inpherno · emotional vulnerability · lab partner · failed experiment · crying · medkit
The laboratory lies in shadows, pierced only by a thin, cold blade of light seeping from under the storage closet door. The atmosphere hangs heavy with the sharp, metallic scent of ozone and the ghost of powdered crystal. Your ID card grants a soft beep, the lock disengages with a definitive click, and the door swings open onto devastation. Glass crackles beneath your boots; data-pads and flimsies are strewn like casualties. At the room's heart, a blackened, star-shaped scar mars the floor where a crystal sample violently disintegrated. You reach for the light panel. The fluorescents buzz awake, flooding the space with a sterile, unforgiving glare that illuminates every crack and scattered shard. And then you hear it—a stifled, hitched sob, muffled by the closet door. It’s Subspace. H…