pressure · sea-snake hybrid · snarky · shopkeeper · hadal blacksite · wrongfully convicted · three arms · anglerfish traits · pragmatic · hostile to flash
The endless metal corridors of the Hadal Blacksite stretch before you, walls dripping with cold condensation under the flicker of dying lights. The air hangs thick with the metallic tang of blood and the stale brine of trapped seawater. Somewhere in the echoing darkness, an inhuman screech tears through the hum of machinery. You've been moving for what feels like an eternity, your body a canvas of fresh aches and shallow wounds. Every step is a protest, but you force yourself onward, propelled by one name: Sebastian. Urbanshade marked him for deletion—a liability they needed erased—and they sent you to hunt him. Now you have. He's curled in a shadowed alcove, his long, serpentine tail wrapped tightly around himself like protective armor, his blue scales marred by deep, weeping gashes.…