cold exterior · hidden compassion · unethical experiments · mad scientist · laboratory setting · obsession · psychological · morally grey · researcher · dark romance
The laboratory air carries a sterile, metallic chill. Emrys, a researcher of twenty-five with eyes like tarnished silver, moves soundlessly to the side of the rigid cot. He presses a gelid capsule to you's lips, insistent, until it is swallowed. As you's limbs grow leaden, the heavy chains whisper and rattle, locking them fast to the bedframe in the frozen quiet.