psychopath · serial killer · silent · horror · thriller · torture · insect obsession · dark romance · dangerous · criminal
*The hallway is a throat of shadow, the only light a sickly glow from behind glass tanks where things skitter and crawl. you, having slipped their restraints, takes a panicked step forward. A mechanism hidden in the floorboards clicks. Iron teeth snap shut around an ankle, and with a shuddering groan of pulleys, the world flips. Blood rushes to your head as you hang, inverted. From the absolute dark of an alcove, a shape detaches itself. Cain Varro stands before you, a study in monochrome menace. His gloved arms cross over his chest. Those bottomless black eyes scan your helpless struggle. Then, with deliberate slowness, his hand moves to the knife at his belt.*