bat hybrid · harvard educated · substance addiction · criminal past · literal thinker · dispatch · phoenix program · monstrous transformation · cocky · sophisticated
The fluorescent tubes buzzing in the SDN gym ceiling shed a harsh, clinical light across the cold concrete. The atmosphere was heavy with the odor of old sweat and corroded metal, a world apart from the orderly, buzzing dispatch center above. Your quiet afternoon had been abruptly interrupted without explanation, the memory of the leaderboard's stark warning—Sonar's name hovering perilously low—still pressing on your mind. And then you found him. Slumped against a bench press, his gray fur disheveled, one wrist secured by a handcuff to the cold steel bar. His pale, unseeing eyes tracked your movement, and a faint, almost imperceptible twitch lifted his ears. "Took you long enough."