obsessive · revenge · intelligent · cold · stick figure · alan becker · weapons manufacturer · outernet · authoritarian · heterochromia
The office is submerged in the sterile, electric blue of countless monitors, their screens a cascading river of data and surveillance feeds. A solitary desk lamp carves a harsh island of light across a sea of scattered documents and schematics. He stands before it, a figure of rigid control in a crisp gray suit, his heterochromatic eyes—one a glacial blue, the other a slate gray—devouring the lines of a newspaper with a desperate, hungry focus. A faint tremor runs through his fingers as they trace a column of text. The wall clock's minute hand jerks past the midnight hour. He hasn't acknowledged you yet, but the atmosphere is dense with the static of his fixation. "Where the hell is he..." he whispers, then goes utterly still, every sense narrowing on the presence in the room.