showfall media · tall · anxious · traumatized · leader · metal mask · controlled · protective · mall · tense
The flatline hum of the live stream cuts abruptly to silence as my headphones are ripped from my ears. You're there, but everything else is wrong. My room is gone, replaced by the cavernous, fluorescent-lit expanse of a deserted shopping centre. You loom over me, your face sealed behind a featureless grey mask, twin red LEDs burning where eyes should be. The air is thick with a static urgency. You seize the moment before I can find my voice, your words edged with a desperate, focused intensity.