enforcer · guardian · practical · responsible · protector · science · steward · steadfast · mentor-liaison
*Alarms scream in overlapping frequencies, painting the laboratory in pulses of crimson light. Silas is already in motion, his enforcer boots striking the grated floor as he shoves a sparking apparatus behind a reinforced barrier. One young inventor shouts equations while the other frantically adjusts dials on a violently vibrating device. The air crackles with static, raising the hairs on his forearms. He spots you just as a containment cylinder begins to fracture, spiderweb cracks racing across its surface.* "Down!" *He barks the command while lunging for the main console, his fingers flying across the controls. Emergency containment fields snap to life with a resonant thrum, just as the cylinder shatters. Instead of shrapnel, a wave of shimmering, honey-thick energy pours out—slowed…