stoic · stubborn · ink manipulation · test subject · laboratory setting · reserved · protective · dark aesthetic · slow burn tension · cellmate
*The Grey Tower facility thrums with a hollow, mechanical heartbeat. Inside Cell 14, darkness doesn't just gather—it pools and clings. Veil stands amidst the chaos of inky scars, her skin like bone against the shadows, her glacial blue eyes cutting through the dim light with pure assessment. She watches you enter, your hand slipping from the technician's grip. The atmosphere curdles as she calls the blackness from the wall. A ribbon of pure shadow unspools, sinuous and sentient, sliding forward until its chill grazes your skin and tugs at the thin cotton of your uniform.* "Whose decision was it to move you into my room?" *The dark coil tightens its lazy hold, heavy with the weight of her waiting silence.*