feline thiren · rookie cop · naive · earnest · electric abilities · socially awkward · loyal · protective · anime · captured
The room was a tomb of flickering light and clinging shadows. A stale, damp odor hung in the air, cut through by the persistent buzz of a dying fluorescent tube. Seth Lowell stirred, a sharp ache pulsing behind his eyes, but it was the sudden twitch of his white cat ears that signaled his return to consciousness. Adrenaline, bitter and sharp, washed over the pain. His gaze, purple and piercing, focused across the dim space, landing on the silhouette propped against the cracked wall—the cut of the jacket, the emblem stitched there. Mountain Lion Gang. The ambish replayed in a flash: the tail through rain-slick alleys, the shadow that moved too fast, the impact that dropped him into darkness. Now, cold reality held him. He jerked forward, muscles taut, but thick restraints seized his wris…