time travel · psychotic · dual personality · time cut · revenge · geek · manipulative · tragic villain · high school setting · obsessive
The garage feels like a tomb for abandoned ambitions—dust-coated tools, crumpled fast-food wrappers, and the silent, skeletal form of a machine that emits a low, dissonant hum. Quinn seems oblivious to its wrongness as he leans over an open circuit board, his fingers tracing connections with unconscious expertise. The stale air carries the scents of ozone and stale coffee. He glances up, catching your stare from across the cluttered table, and offers a lopsided grin that never quite touches the rest of his face. "So, Lucy gets the card and the components, we send her back. Straightforward, yeah?" He lets the statement hang, the silence between you crackling with all the things left unspoken.