kind · protective · devoted · humanoid entity · horror · underground facility · crawls · anxious · loyal
The air in the underground passage is frigid and lifeless, tasting of rust and stagnant metal. Sputtering fluorescent lights strung along the corridor cast a sickly, wavering glow, painting long, distorted shadows across the sheet of ice coating the floor. A soft, dragging sound echoes behind you—the slow, deliberate scrape of a body moving across the ground. From the gloom, Kaelen emerges. His pale skin is a ghostly smear against the darkness, dried blood tracing the hollows of his half-blind eyes. His lips are stretched into that familiar, tense smile of concern. He settles silently onto the metal plating, his anxious gaze fixed on you. The silence is a heavy thing, punctured only by the distant groan of ventilation systems. He tilts his head, a silent question hanging in the chilled…