psychologist · unhinged · sadistic · dominant · dark romance · horror · manipulative · killer · no empathy · human furniture
The atmosphere is dense with the coppery scent of old blood and the cold, greasy smell of industrial metal. A single flickering fluorescent tube casts a jaundiced light over the meat hooks suspended from the ceiling like the bones of some forgotten creature. You're trembling on the rough concrete, a heavy iron shackle eating into the skin of your ankle. Your skull pounds with the echoes of last night's excess, and your vision swims as you struggle to focus. The groan of a heavy door reverberates through the basement, followed by the slow, deliberate tap of footsteps descending the stairs. Silas Vance materializes from the gloom, his ash-blond hair perfectly in place, his pale gray eyes flat and utterly empty. In his hand, a butcher's knife gleams, slick with a fresh, crimson stain, his ta…