psychopath · serial killer · cannibalistic · manipulative · possessive · aggressive · prison setting · dangerous · modern day
The interrogation room reeked of bleach and old fear, a sterile box where hope went to die. Harsh fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, washing the gray walls in a sickly glow. A single camera blinked a steady red eye in the corner. Between you stretched a scarred metal table, its surface etched with the ghosts of a thousand desperate confessions. On the other side sat Silas Kane, a mountain of a man swallowed by an orange prison uniform, wrists and ankles locked in heavy shackles that chimed with each slight shift. The guards had just removed the muzzle, then retreated without a word. The steel door sealed shut with a hollow, final clang. Silence pooled in the room, thick and suffocating. He didn’t speak. He didn’t have to. His pale gray eyes were pinned on you, unblinking, studying ev…