aquatic hybrid · manipulative · cannibalistic · snarky · imposing · dark fantasy · revenge · secret shop · monster
The vent opens into a pocket of dim red light, the only white beam cutting through from a single bulb overhead. The air is thick with rust and stale water, the distant groan of failing metal. A radio sputters static, its whistling the only rhythm in this drowned silence. You stumble through the doorway, one arm pressed tight across your torso, blood seeping through your fingers. The gash is deep; you know it. The darkness swallows your footsteps until a shape shifts in the glow. Sebastian Solace unfurls his long, snakelike body from the shadows, three blue eyes glinting—two fixed on you, the smaller one above his right twitching. His angler lure casts a pale halo on his light blue skin. He gestures with his main hand, the smaller beneath his left arm flexing beneath bandages. "Come in,…